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Native America Calling: Back (home) to school (September 5, 2024)
As students head back into the classroom, they’ll find many of their fellow classmates are … not there. 
Albert Bender: The theft of tribal land in Oklahoma (August 28, 2024)
The settler state of Oklahoma arose on the backs of it most vulnerable — the Five Tribes who were forced to move there by the U.S. government. 
“The Department’s concluding report on its investigation into federal Indian boarding school policies is an important next step toward a full accounting of the United States’ systemic effort to erase Native identities, languages, and cultures for its own gain,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).
For the first time, the United States is owning up to its role in the deplorable treatment of children at Indian boarding schools.
The Biden administration has released the long-awaited final volume of its investigation into the genocidal Indian boarding school era.
Cronkite News: Supporters rally for Holocaust education center (February 21, 2024)
Lawmakers in Arizona are advancing plans for the first Holocaust education center in the state, although funding is in debate. 
Native America Calling: Catholicism’s enduring appeal among Native Americans (February 14, 2024)
Thousands of Native Catholics are entering the 40-day time of reflection and sacrifice known as Lent. 
Native America Calling: Tribal traditions and the eclipse (October 13, 2023)
Join Native America Calling to shine a light on some of the tribal traditions surrounding the partial solar eclipse. 
Native America Calling: Pipes: prayer, blessing, and communion (August 7, 2023)
A quarry in Minnesota has been a reliable source for the stone used in ceremonial pipes for dozens of tribes throughout the central U.S. and Canada. 
The Catholic Church formally repudiated a religious doctrine that was used to justify the theft of lands from indigenous peoples in North America.
The highest court in the land is once again taking up a case that will determine whether the United States lives up to its promises to tribal nations.
Efforts to strengthen and improve the Indian Arts and Crafts Act are coming amid criminal cases and renewed claims to Native identities.
An overwhelming majority of Jewish voters in New York’s 3rd Congressional District – 94% – think their freshman Republican representative, George Santos, should resign from Congress over a web of lies about his background.
Forward: Republican enters Congress under extreme scrutiny (January 3, 2023)
A Republican candidate’s lies about his education, employment and even his ethnic background take him all the way to the U.S. Congress. 
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. 
Mother Jones: Right-wing groups take ICWA to nation’s highest court (November 8, 2022)
The Indian Child Welfare Act set out to fix generations of harm to Native kids. The U.S. Supreme Court could soon toss it aside. 
Native Sun News Today: A brief history of the pow wow (October 4, 2022)
The real history of pow wows is being made by people today, by just having pow wows. 
Native America Calling: Protecting peyote (October 4, 2022)
Native American Church practitioners are working to secure environmental protections for the plant that is losing habitat to development, land use policies, and climate change. 
Native prisoners at the Washington State Penitentiary hosted their first powwow in three years, a 50-year tradition temporarily halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Many Canadians are coming to terms with the nation’s history of schooling and settler colonialism.
Apache Stronghold heads back to court to protect sacred Oak Flat (September 6, 2022)
The fight to protect a sacred site from development is once again back in court as defenders of Oak Flat try to stop a huge copper mine on Apache territory. 
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. 
Alan Parker, a citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribe, had a profound impact on law and policy in Indian Country.
Cronkite News: Fight over copper mine at sacred Apache site continues (August 15, 2022)
A long-running political, legal and environmental dispute over a copper mine on sacred Apache land in Arizona shows no signs of ending anytime soon. 
Charges laid against Native woman reported as missing in Canada (August 8, 2022)
Dawn Walker has been accused of faking her disappearance and that of her child in a case that attracted widespread attention in Canada.
No Native entity knows the answers and to truly heal we need our children returned to our homes.
Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, delivers remarks at Maskwacis Park in Alberta, Canada.
Religious communities, bishops and popes were variously complicit in a system that dispossessed Indigenous peoples and cruelly oppressed their children at Native residential schools.
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.
Nothing will be done for us without us. No one may speak on our behalf without our express approval.
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. 
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. 
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.
Gaylord News: Tribes reclaim ancestral and sacred lands (May 24, 2022)
“It’s really important that we go back and let people know that we are still thriving,” said Galen Cloud of the Muscogee National Council. 
Sexual harassment, parties with former students and unusual living and salary arrangements are at the center of a stunning investigation at the St. Stephens Indian School.
Tim Giago: I don’t want to hear ‘sorry’ from the Catholic Church (April 11, 2022)
Christian churches destroyed the lives of more Lakota boys and girls than they will ever know. 
Native America Calling: The papal apology (April 7, 2022)
The apology from Pope Francis sought forgiveness for the role the Catholic Church played in atrocities at Native residential schools. 
Tens of thousands of Native children suffered abuse at residential schools run by the Catholic Church, all with the compliance of the Canadian government.
Native America Calling: The continuing Russian influence in Alaska (March 16, 2022)
As Russia works to forcibly annex a neighboring country, it’s instructive to recount the nation’s checkered history among Alaska Natives.
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