It's also ironic that the adoption of Native symbols by civic organizations often dates back to a time when Native American children were being taken from reservations and sent to boarding schools ...

A group called the Native American Guardian’s Association (NAGA) is demanding the Washington Commanders change their name back to the Redskins, organizing support for the name reversal with a ...

[image_credit]Minnesota Historical Society[/image_credit][image_caption]An unidentified Métis fur trader of Native American and French ... Certain symbols persist in the present day as markers ...

Fluker Oakley said during a hearing Monday in the State House that Native American mascots and similar symbols can have pernicious psychological effects on indigenous children. "Native American ...

“They were just things with Native American symbols on them, and they called them Native American artifacts,” she said. “I just educated him about how this was wrong and how this assignment ...

The government actively worked to separate Native American families through boarding schools and forced adoptions. Check out the documentaries below to begin your learning journey on this ...

The Washington right winger's passionate defense of his alma mater shines a light on the debate around other prominent Native American symbols. While pushes for their removal are usually made in ...

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York State Education Department put out a directive to all school districts across the state to not use Native American symbols or mascots are part of their school name ...

It's Native American Heritage Day. NPR's Steve Inskeep talks to Ned Blackhawk, a professor of History and American Studies at Yale, about the history of the day and what it means to observe it.

The Newberry is home to one of the strongest collections of Native American archival materials ... inspired by both the symbols his tribe paints on their lodges and the bright colors used by ...

Long before Mormons settled at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Genoa or Mexican trader Antonio Armijo coined the term “Las Vegas” en route to Los Angeles, Native tribes roamed the Silver ...