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For Indigenous Peoples Day, a scholar of Native American studies explains why understanding the tragic history of Indian boarding schools is important for healing to take place.

“Education was something that was done to us, not something that was provided for us.”

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Native American voting rights advocates are cautioning against states moving to mail-in ballots without opportunities for tribal members to vote safely in person. In a wide-ranging report released Thursday, the Native American Rights Fund outlined the challenges that could arise: online registration hampered by spotty or no internet service, ballots delivered to rarely-checked Post Office boxes and turnout curbed by a general reluctance to vote by mail.

The first task in confronting this history of abuse, before reconciliation can be possible, must be truth-telling, a process Denise Lajimodiere, researcher and founder of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, said has barely begun in the United States.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said that Arizona’s new voting restrictions are an “assault” on the tribe’s voting rights.

“Proportionally, Native Americans are the most likely racial group to be killed by the police,” says a report by the Lakota People's Law Project. Native American men are also imprisoned at four times the rate of white men, and Native American women at six times the rate of white women.

This month's Supreme Court ruling concerning tribal lands underscores the long, slow path for progress for Native Americans.

Tamisha Jensen requested a mail ballot in mid-September. Mail ballots don’t ship in Arizona until Oct. 7, but she’s worried her first absentee ballot won’t get to her. Jensen, a jeweler who lives in the Navajo Nation, doesn’t have a regular mailing address – she writes “a mile west of Cameron Chapter House” – and the

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The suit charges that diluting Indigenous power violates their voting rights and will handicap tribe members who run for office

One in every 475 Native Americans has died since the pandemic began: ‘Families have been decimated’

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Support from Navajo voters may have been what pushed the Grand Canyon State to support its first Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1996.

In Arizona and Wisconsin, Native turnout — which often leans liberal — made the difference in Biden’s slim but winning margin.

How did the pandemic affect the 576 tribal nations across the US? Due to a lack of government transparency, we may never know.

Amber Ortega was facing charges for refusing to leave an area where workers were building the border wall. Her acquittal was hailed as an unexpected win for Native American religious freedoms.

The FCC said the change is meant to encourage help tribal libraries get discounted broadband through the E-Rate program.

Arizona's racist history of voter suppression dates back to the state’s territorial period, and features tactics reminiscent of the Deep South

The gruesome discovery took decades and for some survivors of the Kamloops Indian Residential School in Canada, the confirmation that children as young as 3 were buried on school grounds crystallizes the sorrow they have carried all their lives.

Administration seeks to transfer ownership of Arizona area to mining company with ties to the destruction of an Aboriginal site

Thursday's National Day of Mourning in Plymouth, Massachusetts, will honor Indigenous people who've suffered centuries of racism and mistreatment. It's the 52nd year the event has been observed.

The annual celebration is a good time to reflect on efforts made throughout the year to support and advance Native American communities.

The American Indian Museum puts the 150-year-old Fort Laramie Treaty on view in its "Nation to Nation" exhibition

A Minneapolis community seeks to counteract centuries of federal policies that have put its people at a disadvantage.

Democracy’s indigenous origins in the Americas.

A growing movement recasts the second Monday in October as a day to appreciate the history of Indigenous communities. That visibility, say Native Americans, can help us see what else needs to change.

The announcement followed a 14-month campaign to stop the move out of state of the histories of 272 federally recognized tribes as well as all federal records generated in the Pacific Northwest, including military, land, court, tax and census documents.

Shumla leaders said they completed the first phase of their Alexandria Project, having documented 233 rock art sites along the Lower Pecos.

A librarian has developed citation templates for oral teachings shared by members of Indigenous communities.