While many across the country recognize Juneteenth as the end to the institution of slavery in America in 1865, some tribal ...

Hungarian-American sculptor Peter Toth, at his Florida studio, has created 74 statues of native peoples in North ... understanding of their interests.” Signs of indigenous culture are ubiquitous ...

The Crow Tribe is commemorating 200 years since the 1825 treaty with the U.S. government. BILLINGS, Mont. – Crow tribal members are marking 200 years since the 1825 treaty with the U.S. government.

ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the ...

MINNEAPOLIS — Thousands of books line the shelves at Birchbark Books & Native Arts in Minneapolis. The small, independent bookstore even has a wall for published authors to sign—but one ...

The move has sparked serious concerns among Native American leaders and education advocates who point out that the federal government — not states — holds trust and treaty obligations to provide ...

Within Native communities ... and Spain entered into treaties with sovereign tribal nations on this continent. Treaties are not symbolic gestures; they are legally binding agreements between sovereign ...

NARRATOR] THE 1868 TREATY WITH THE NAVAJO INCLUDED THE PROVISION THAT THEIR CHILDREN MUST ATTEND SCHOOL. NATIVE AMERICAN BOARDING ... Elk] There are little signs, like when I pat my heart, it's ...

Chief Seattle was the first Native American leader to sign the Point Elliot Treaty, which was an agreement between the U.S. government and the Native Americans to give the U.S. government land ...