U.S. Department of the Interior

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

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.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has rolled out guidelines for a new youth service program meant to create job opportunities for Native Americans while boosting cultural connections to nature through conservation projects on tribal and public land.

An attorney for an Arizona real estate developer who was referred to the Department of Justice for a criminal investigation by congressional Democrats wants to publicly rebut the allegations.

The U.S. Interior Department has released the first volume of an investigation into the federal government’s Indian boarding school program. It’s an attempt to address the troubled legacy of the schools that sought to assimilate Indigenous children into white society for 150 years.

A pair of South Dakota law enforcement officials have been named to a federal commission tasked with helping improve how the government addresses a decades-long crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people. Native Americans have consistently accounted for roughly 70% of South Dakota's missing people in recent years.

The U.S. Interior Department says it will release a report Wednesday that will begin to uncover the truth about the federal government’s past oversight of Native American boarding schools.

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland on Thursday announced the members of a commission that will craft recommendations on how the federal government can better tackle unsolved cases in which Native Americans and Alaska Natives have gone missing or have been killed.

Several tribal leaders met with Interior Secretary Deb Haaland this week to advocate for their involvement in federal water policymaking. They want full participation in water allocation decisions in a time of increased scarcity.

Navajo Nation lawmakers continue to voice their concerns over a U.S. Interior Department plan to ban new oil and gas drilling near Chaco Culture National Historical Park in northwestern New Mexico. The federal proposal seeks to protect lands surrounding one of the nation’s most important Indigenous sites.