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[ad_1] In February, my 6-year-old Waccamaw Siouan son was told that he must cut his long hair to continue attending a public charter school in North...
[ad_1] CNN — Jesse Short Bull grew up a mile from an Indian reservation in South Dakota not realizing the ground he was stepping on was...
[ad_1] CNN — Three years after George Floyd was murdered by then-Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin, the Justice Department issued a blistering report Friday of the...
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — An anthropology professor at the University of California, Berkeley, whose identity as Native American had been questioned for years apologized this...
[ad_1] A mill in Eastern Oregon that has been weaving wool for more than a century is, quite literally, part of the fabric of the community....
[ad_1] Hair policing — the act of trying to dictate the style or length of another person’s hair — is a peculiarly persistent form of discrimination....
[ad_1] CNN — A popular California resort near Lake Tahoe has changed its long-standing name and logo from one that’s offensive to many Native Americans to...
[ad_1] CNN — The US Marshals Service is teaming up with a Native American tribe based in Northern California for a new push aimed at addressing...
[ad_1] This article was originally published by Kaiser Health News. Amanda Shelley was sitting in her dentist’s waiting room when she received a call from the...
[ad_1] A 27-year-old man in Colorado went missing a day before the state’s new Missing Indigenous Person Alerts system went live on Dec. 30. One week...
[ad_1] Understaffing, investigative mistakes, challenges with recruitment: As the CBS investigative podcast “Missing Justice” details, the gaps evident in the investigation into Christy Woodenthigh’s death affect...
[ad_1] Washington CNN — A version of this story appeared in CNN’s Race Deconstructed newsletter. To get it in your inbox every week, sign up for...
[ad_1] CHICAGO (CBS) — As Native American Heritage Month ends, we look at the troublesome issue of housing. A University of Illinois at Chicago study shows...
[ad_1] Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building’s co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take...
[ad_1] Sheetal Deo was shocked when she got a letter from her Queens apartment building’s co-op board calling her Diwali decoration “offensive” and demanding she take...
[ad_1] GRAND CANYON NATIONAL PARK, Ariz. (AP) — For years, the Indian Garden name assigned to a popular Grand Canyon campground has been a painful reminder...
[ad_1] BADLANDS NATIONAL PARK, S.D. — Perched atop a fence at Badlands National Park, Troy Heinert peered from beneath his wide-brimmed hat into a corral where...
[ad_1] The New York State Department of Education (NYSDE) Thursday ordered all public schools in the state to stop using Native American references in team names,...
[ad_1] SEATTLE — Washington banned fish-farming with net pens in state waters on Friday, citing danger to struggling native salmon. Public Lands Commissioner Hilary Franz issued...
[ad_1] ALBANY, N.Y. — Schools in New York state must stop using Native American references in mascots, team names and logos by the end of the...