It isn’t over yet for Oak Flat. A coalition of Western Apaches and allies are charting courses to the U.S. Supreme Court and the United Nations in their years-long battle to save the site in Arizona’s Tonto Nation Forest known as Chí’chil Biłdagoteel…

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition in the U.S. In…

Sarah Agaton Howes was moved to tears describing the theft of her original artwork. “After all that’s been stolen from us – our kids, language, land, religion, our whole way of life – then this guy thinks he can just walk in and take our artwork,”…

The Biden administration has weighed in for the first time on legal challenges against Enbridge’s Line 5, a 645-mile, oil-and-natural-gas pipeline crossing Wisconsin and Michigan before terminating in Ontario, Canada. In court brief filed with the…

CINCINNATI, Ohio — Dan Friday has a car mechanic’s hands. They bear the scars and the almost-healed wound of a man who works with machinery. But Friday’s battle scars come not from work on cars – which he did in his youth – but from his work as a…

CINCINNATI, Ohio — They came to protect the water. Nearly 200 people traveled from Michigan to Cincinnati on Thursday, March 21, to support the state of Michigan’s efforts to stay out of federal court with its legal case calling for a partial…

This is the second installment in a three-part series examining the impact of new rules under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Vernelda Grant recalls weeping while reading historic journals kept by White settlers and U.S.…

This is the first installment in a three-part ICT series examining new rules under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Changes to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act were announced in the dry language of…

The Bad River Ojibwe people have defended their homelands against generations of threats to the environment and their way of life. From the 19th century onward, when timber barons first set sights on the enormous stands of white pine in the region…

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WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition in the U.S. In…

WARNING: This story has disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition in the US. The National…

Mary Annette Pember ICT From "something else" to “Indigenous creatures,” Native voters hit the polls in high numbers once again. And as in the 2020 presidential election, they made a difference. During the 2020 presidential election, CNN infamously…

The words “Equal Justice Under Law” are inscribed above the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. The terse phrase powerfully underscores the conviction that the nation’s judiciary occupies a special plane of existence in which momentous…

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition in the U.S. In…

WARNING: This story includes disturbing details about boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition in the U.S. The National Indian…

Mary Annette Pember ICT Excavation is underway in the basement of historic Drexel Hall at the Red Cloud Indian School where a worker reported seeing three small graves in the 1990s. So far, however, no obvious human remains had been found in the…

Stairs lead down to the basement of Drexel Hall on the campus of Red Cloud Indian School on the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota, where officials are set to begin excavation Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, to search for unmarked graves. Red Cloud is…