Sovereignty
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Show Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
BISMARCK, ND — North Dakota lawmakers introduced a bill on Monday that would solidify the rules of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) into state law.
- Details
- By Elyse Wild
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Show Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
The Canadian government has agreed to pay more than $2 billion to hundreds of Indigenous communities to settle a lawsuit centered around nearly a century of abuse suffered by children who attended Indian residential schools.
- Details
- By Native News Online Staff
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Show Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY — Tribal citizens and boarding school survivors filled the Gila Crossing Community School near Phoenix on Friday, as senior officials from the Department of Interior held the fourth listening session on the yearlong Road to Healing Tour.
- Details
- By Levi Rickert and Darren Thompson
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Show Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
**This story pertains to Indian Residential Boarding Schools. For support in First Nations, the Indian Residential School Survivors Society has a 24-hour Crisis Line available: 1-866-925-4419. In the United States, visit The Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition’s list of resources.**
- Details
- By Brian Edwards
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Hide Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
The Department of Interior’s year-long “Road to Healing Tour” will visit Arizona this week, with stops at the Gila River Indian Community near Phoenix this Friday and Navajo Nation at Many Farms on Sunday.
- Details
- By Levi Rickert
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Show Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
At its first official meeting of 2023, the Seneca Nation Council unanimously approved a resolution condemning New York Governor Kathy Hochul’s veto of a bill that would have protected unmarked burials of Native American ancestors from unintentional excavation.
- Details
- By Native News Online Staff
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Show Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
One week after the Central Council of the Tlingit & Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska signed the official deed to put its first parcel of land into federal trust, the state of Alaska has sued the federal government in an effort to nullify the land transfer.
- Details
- By Brian Edwards, Tribal Business News
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Show Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
WAIMANALO, Hawai’i—The Independent & Sovereign Nation of Hawai’i and a California tribe have signed a first-of-its kind treaty of peace and perpetual friendship.
- Details
- By Darren Thompson
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Hide Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
The Shawnee Tribe is facing significant pushback as it tries to acquire a historic property in Kansas where many of its ancestors were sent — and some were possibly buried — during the Indian boarding school era.
- Details
- By Jenna Kunze
- Type: Default
- Ad Visibility: Show Article Ads
- Reader Survey Question: No Question
New legislation that strikes down 11 outdated federal laws that discriminated against Native Americans was signed into law by President Biden on Tuesday, Dec. 27.
- Details
- By Native News Online Staff
