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Secretary Haaland opens third annual White House Tribal Nations Summit (December 6, 2023)
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland delivers remarks at the opening of the third annual White House Tribal Nations Summit. 
Indian Child Welfare Act grants awarded for off-reservation programs (November 30, 2023)
The Bureau of Indian Affairs announced nearly $2 million in grants to support the Indian Child Welfare Act in off-reservation communities across the nation. 
Cronkite News: Native youth come together for annual White House Forum (November 28, 2023)
The third annual White House Tribal Youth Forum brought more than 100 Native and indigenous youth together to share information on the issues affecting their communities. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (November 27, 2023)
Submit your nominations for NAFOA’s 16th Annual Leadership Awards. 
Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland addresses the National Congress of American Indians on November 13, 2023.
DVIDS: Tribes reclaim children lost at Carlisle Indian boarding school (October 11, 2023)
The U.S. Army finalized its sixth disinterment project, returning four Native children to their families. 
President Biden issues another proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day (October 9, 2023)
President Joe Biden has another proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the third of his administration. 
‘Your debt is due’: Tribes on alert as U.S. government looms toward shutdown (September 26, 2023)
Indian Country is on high alert as the U.S. government prepares for a possible shutdown, the first of its kind in more than three years. 
The Genoa Indian Industrial School was one of the largest Indian boarding schools, drawing students from 40 tribal nations for half a century.
Native America Calling: Culture, athleticism and stickball (January 2, 2023)
Stickball is the older, rougher cousin of lacrosse, developed many centuries ago as both a game and a training exercise. 
Native America Calling: Native forensics: the science of justice (December 6, 2022)
Crimes involving Native people and renewed scrutiny of past boarding school practices highlight the importance of Native forensic professionals. 
Native Sun News Today: Tim Giago joins Native American Hall of Fame (November 29, 2022)
“Write to your people,” the legendary Native journalist Tim Giago would say. “Others will read it too, but your people are your audience.” 
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation keeps our language alive (November 21, 2022)
Cherokee language is core to our culture and our identity as a distinct people.
Native America Calling: Culture and athleticism with stickball (November 4, 2022)
Stickball is the older, rougher cousin of lacrosse, developed many centuries ago as both a game and a training exercise. 
Underscore.News: Young Native runner honors family legacy (November 3, 2022)
Ku Stevens’ great-grandfather escaped an Indian boarding school by running 50 miles through the desert to get home. Decades later, Ku runs to honor that legacy. 
‘Huge loss for the world’: Lakota cultural bearer Kevin Locke passes on (October 5, 2022)
Kevin Locke — renowned hoop dancer, flute player and educator of Lakota language and culture — passed away suddenly at the age of 68. 
Secretary Deb Haaland provides update from Department of the Interior (September 27, 2022)
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland provides an update at the 39th Annual National Tribal Health Conference. 
Cronkite News: Indian boarding schools confront genocidal legacy (August 30, 2022)
Few dispute that Indian boarding schools led to more than a century of abuse, systematically seizing Indigenous land, separating children from their families, destroying communities and working to erase tribal languages, religions, cultures and economies. 
John Fadden Kahionhes was a legend in the most profound sense of the word.
ICT: The legacy of Tim Giago (July 25, 2022)
The founder of modern Indian journalism has passed on. Tim Giago was 88 years old. 
One of the intents of the Canadian and U.S. governments in creating the boarding-residential schools was to alienate indigenous people from their ancestral lands.
Native America Calling: Pope Francis in Canada (July 21, 2022)
Pope Francis is set to visit with First Nations leaders again, this time on their own homelands. 
After more than a century, Native sports legend Jim Thorpe has once again been recognized for his Olympic achievements.
A non-profit is taking on the task of forming a Truth and Reconciliation Commission to help heal from Indian boarding school abuses.
There must be recompense for the horrendous crime of genocide and its long term effects.
Biden administration backs Indian boarding school bill (June 27, 2022)
The Biden administration is fully supporting a bipartisan bill to study the Indian boarding school era, Secretary Deb Haaland said at a hearing on Capitol Hill. 
The House Committee on Natural Resources meets for a markup on June 15, 2022.
Democrats are vowing to return to work better prepared after they said Republicans “hijacked” a slew of Indian Country bills during a markup where nothing was accomplished.
Bipartisan efforts to create a federal commission to explore and repair the legacy of the nation’s notorious Indian boarding schools have hit a stumbling block over subpoena authority.
The House Committee on Natural Resources meets for a markup on June 8, 2022.
Native America Calling: Federal boarding schools: now what? (May 18, 2022)
How much confidence should Indian Country put into the federal government’s role in mitigating the trauma of the boarding school era? 
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a legislative hearing on H.R.5444, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a legislative hearing on H.R.5444, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act.
List of Federal Indian Boarding Schools as of April 1, 2022 (May 11, 2022)
Search for Indian boarding schools that have been identified by the Department of the Interior as part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative. 
“I didn’t know anything about who I was, as a Native person,” James William LaBelle, Sr. said as a survivor of an Indian boarding school.
“This report confirms that this boarding school system was part of a twin United States policy: the dispossession of Indian lands and the forced assimilation of Indian people,” said Assistant Secretary Bryan Newland.
“For more than a century, tens of thousands of indigenous children were taken from their communities and forced into boarding schools run by the U.S. government,” Secretary Deb Haaland said.
Maps of Federal Indian Boarding School Sites (May 11, 2022)
The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative has identified 408 Indian boarding schools in 37 states. Here are maps of the school sites. 
Find the 102-page Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report here.
The Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative at the Department of the Interior has released its initial report. Read the official press release.
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