WASHINGTON – Nearly 1,000 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died while attending boarding schools that were set up by the U.S. government for the purpose of erasing their ...

Nearly 1,000 Native American children died or were killed while forced to attend U.S. government-affiliated boarding schools, according to a report by the Interior Department. The children are buried ...

We speak with Cherokee journalist Rebecca Nagle about a major victory at the Supreme Court in a case that could have gutted Native American sovereignty. In a surprise 7-2 ruling Thursday, the court ...

On June 15, tribes across California and the nation will mark the second annual ICWA Day, a moment to celebrate the historic 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that overwhelmingly affirmed the ...

Demonstrators stood outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington on Nov. 9, 2022, as the court heard arguments over the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act. On Thursday, June 15, 2023, the Supreme Court ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children, rejecting a broad attack ...

Native American tribal leaders and legal experts celebrated a "resounding victory" Thursday after the Supreme Court left intact the federal law that gives preference to Native families in foster care ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to disturb a federal law that governs the process for the placement of Native American children in foster or adoptive homes, rejecting ...

Yet the gaps have continually worsened. Data from the nonprofit Sentencing Project and the federal Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention from 2019-23, the most recent available, shows ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a decades-old federal law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving Native children. In a 7-2 ruling, the ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday preserved the system that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings of Native children, rejecting a broad attack ...

TEMECULA, Calif. — Cash Rocha is 7, going on 8. He started second grade this fall along with his two best friends from preschool. Cash gets good grades, but says he didn't like school. He rarely holds ...