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Native American translations are being added to more US road signs to promote language and awarenessAuthorities from across the country are adding Native American language translations to road signs and building facades.
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An iconic chief of the Cherokee Nation, Wilma Mankiller, inspired countless Native American children as a powerful but humble leader who expanded early education and rural healthcare. Mankiller is now being honored with a Barbie doll in her likeness as part of toymaker Mattel's “Inspiring Women” series.
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Survivors of government-backed Native American boarding schools and their descendants shared their experiences as U.S. officials made a final stop in Montana on a yearlong tour to confront the institutions that regularly abused students to assimilate them into white society.
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The new list from the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition brings the total number of schools used to assimilate Indigenous children into white society to 523.
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A Native American tribe has retained its title to a portion of a national preserve in northern New Mexico following a yearslong court battle against the federal government.
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Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver were transferred to several tribes from across the Great Plains, in the latest example of Native Americans reclaiming stewardship over animals their ancestors lived alongside for millennia.
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A group of Native American students is urging Flagstaff city officials to rename one of the San Francisco Peaks due to its namesake’s history of racism.
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Tribes now have a collective 20,000 bison and that’s been growing steadily along with a desire among many Native Americans to reclaim stewardship of an animal their predecessors lived alongside and depended upon for millennia.
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Legislation was introduced today to protect one of the most culturally significant and ecologically fragile landscapes in the Southwest. The Great Bend of the Gila Conservation Act will establish a 330,000-acre conservation area, as well as the 47,000-acre Palo Verde National Conservation Area and nearly 60,000-acres of new wilderness in the Sonoran Desert.
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The Canadian government says Pope Francis’ apology to Indigenous peoples for abuses they suffered in the country’s church-run residential schools didn’t go far enough.