Tag: Native Americans

US President Joe Biden speaks at the Gila River Crossing School in the Gila River Indian Community, in Laveen Village, near Phoenix, Arizona on October 25, 2024. Biden apologized for one of the country’s “darkest chapters:” the abduction of Native American children from their families and placement in abusive boarding schools aimed at erasing their culture. The first public apology issued by a sitting US president. From the early 1800s until the 1970s, the US ran hundreds of Indian boarding schools across the country to forcibly assimilate Native children into European settler culture, including conversion to Christianity.

Native Americans October 25, 2024 2:48 pm

Biden apologizes for forced Native American boarding school policy that caused abuse and deaths of children

President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation.

FILE – U.S. President Calvin Coolidge wears a Native American headdress of the Sioux tribe as he is adopted as Chief Leading Eagle and first white chief of the tribe at the celebration of the 51st anniversary of the settlement of Deadwood, South Dakota, in 1927. Coolidge signed the Indian Citizenship Act of 1924.

Native Americans June 1, 2024 7:10 pm

100 years ago, US citizenship for Native Americans came without voting rights in swing states

An act of Congress a century ago guaranteed citizenship to wary Native Americans in an age of forced assimilation and marked the outset of a long journey to secure voting rights.

FILE – President Joe Biden speaks at the White House Tribal Nations Summit at the Department of the Interior in Washington, Nov. 30, 2022.

Native Americans December 6, 2023 10:31 am

Biden will sign an executive order on federal funding for Native Americans

President Joe Biden will sign an executive order during a tribal nations summit that aims to make it easier for Native Americans to access federal funding and have greater autonomy over how to invest those funds. White House domestic policy advi

Movies October 20, 2023 2:12 pm

Reel Reviews: In theaters and streaming this weekend

Film critic Sarah Vincent shares her take on the latest releases, including “The Burial,” “Killers of The Flower Moon” and “Silver Dollar Road.”

Native Americans October 14, 2024 10:45 am

What is Indigenous Peoples Day? A day of celebration, protest and reclaiming history

Here is a look at why it’s called Indigenous Peoples Day, the history behind it and how people celebrate.

FILE – Mount Blue Sky is seen near Idaho Springs, in Colorado’s Rocky Mountains, Sept. 10, 2016.

Colorado September 15, 2023 6:52 pm

A Colorado mountain tied to an 1864 massacre is renamed Mount Blue Sky

A towering mountain southwest of Denver has been renamed in honor of Colorado’s Indigenous people.

Volunteer Nancy Carlson sifts through dirt as workers dig for the suspected remains of children who once attended the Genoa Indian Industrial School, Monday, July 10, 2023, in Genoa, Neb. The mystery of where the bodies of more than 80 children are buried could be solved this week as archeologists dig in a Nebraska field that a century ago was part of a sprawling Native American boarding school. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall)

Native Americans July 11, 2023 11:29 am

Search for children's remains continues at former Native American assimilation school in Nebraska

Amid a renewed push for answers, archeologists resume digging for student remains at the site of a former Native American boarding school.

Maine June 2, 2023 8:23 am

Bill Would Allow Tribes in Maine to Benefit From Federal Law

New legislation would allow Native Americans in Maine to benefit from federal laws despite terms of a land claims settlement, providing help to Wabanaki tribes while stopping short of full sovereignty that they’ve long sought. The bipartisan proposal introduced by Democratic House Speaker Rachel Talbot Ross forbids the creation of tribal casinos without state permission and keeps intact existing criminal...