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The Washington Post documented nearly double the number of deaths of Native American children in Indian boarding schools than what the federal government acknowledged.

The new monument will be in Carlisle, Pa., on what was the campus of a school where about 7,800 children from more than 140 tribes were sent for assimilation between 1879 and 1918.

New data shows Native American students miss more school days than their classmates.

A bipartisan bill pending in Congress would pay to relocate some of the 20,500 buffalo from public lands across the West and Midwest to reservation lands that were historically part of the animals’ range.

Authorities from across the country are adding Native American language translations to road signs and building facades.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.