Deb Haaland

Native American boarding school survivors of abuse and their descendants shared memories and tears in Arizona on U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's yearlong “Road to Healing” initiative.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will be in Phoenix and on the Navajo Nation this weekend on the latest stop of “The Road to Healing Tour.” It’s a year-long cross-country initiative to give Indigenous survivors and descendants of the federal Indian boarding school system an opportunity to tell their stories.

Thursday's changes come as part of a yearlong process in which the historically offensive word has been removed from the names of geographic sites across the country.

Communities across the country are celebrating Indigenous People's Day today. The City of Flagstaff is hosting a virtual and in-person event at City Hall.

In a new op-ed for the Washington Post, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland discusses the removal from federal lands of a racist, misogynist slur historically used toward Indigenous women.

Officials with the U-S Interior Department met in Santa Fe, New Mexico last week to outline a plan to counter the worsening crisis facing the Colorado River.

The U.S. Interior Department says it’s strengthening ties with tribes in managing some federal lands. It recently ordered its agencies to deepen collaborations with Indigenous nations in sacred and culturally important areas.

The Interior Department announced Thursday a final vote on replacement names for hundreds of features that contain a word historically used as a racist, sexist slur, particularly against Indigenous women.

The term has historically been used as an offensive ethnic, racial and sexist slur, particularly for Indigenous women.

Native American tribal elders in Oklahoma delivered powerful testimony to federal officials about their experiences in government-backed Indian boarding schools.