Indigeneous People

Pope Francis has apologized for the Catholic Church’s cooperation with Canada’s “catastrophic” policy of Indigenous residential schools. The pontiff says the forced assimilation of Native peoples into Christian society destroyed their cultures, severed their families and marginalized generations in ways still being felt today.

Hualapai leaders are urging the Senate to approve a water plan that would give the tribe water rights to local rivers as their wells fail under the stress of the continuing drought.

Indigenous groups from Canada who visited the Vatican Museums' Anima Mundi Ethnological Collection this spring say they saw some items there that they want to be returned.

In this month's Canyon Commentary, Scott Thybony retells a story from 20 years ago about the importance of honoring sacred spaces and the ceremony of restoring order to the natural world.

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

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding state authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American land is upending decades of law in support of tribal sovereignty.

A divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states can prosecute non-Natives for crimes against Native people on tribal lands, a ruling that critics called a "disaster" for tribal sovereignty and an "act of conquest."

The University of Arizona will provide tuition-free education for Native American undergraduates in the state. U of A on Monday said the program is the first of its kind for a public Arizona university and will cover tuition and fees for full-time undergrads from the state’s 22 federally recognized tribes on its main campus in Tucson.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland testified Wednesday before U.S. Senate committee saying the federal government has a responsibility to Native American tribes, Alaska Native villages and Native Hawaiian communities to fully support education, language and cultural practices that prior boarding school policies sought to destroy.

Federal officials and tribal nations have formally reestablished a commission to jointly govern the Bears Ears National Monument in Utah. It marks one of the first times a national monument will be jointly managed by federal agencies and Native American tribes.