U.S. Representative Grace Meng (D-NY), Chair of the Congressional Asian Pacific American Caucus (CAPAC), and U.S. Senator Mazie K. Hirono (D-HI) introduced the bicameral legislation Teaching Asian ...

This lesson invites students to explore the intersection of Indigenous rights, environmental justice, and U.S. government accountability through the lens of three modern case studies: the Dakota ...

When Congress passed legislation in 1887 that allotted individual American Indians pieces of land while also granting them ...

Lanette Aguero, Grand Prairie ISD’s K-12 social studies facilitator who spearheaded the development of the American-Indian/Native Studies course, said the district’s students have embraced the ...

The percentage of Native students in the MSU student body is now, for the first time, slightly higher than the percentage of Native Americans in Montana’s population.

The Native American/Indigenous Student Alliance (NAISA) and advising faculty sent out a survey on social media platforms to gauge student opinion on a potential new Native American studies minor ...

But the Native studies standards need more eyes on them before they’re ready, said Hardy, a former social studies teacher. She has questions about how the course approaches slavery, for example.

African American studies—also known as Black or Africana studies—explores the history of people of African descent, the legacy of slavery, and how racism pervades our social structures like ...

The newly revised standards also incorporate more than a dozen state statutes that relate to social studies: Native American Heritage Week, Juneteenth Independence Day and Sultana Disaster ...

Lanette Aguero, Grand Prairie ISD’s K-12 social studies facilitator who spearheaded the development of the American-Indian/Native Studies course, said the district’s students have embraced the ...