How American Indian family separation leaves impacts generations later : Code Switch Bear Carrillo grew up knowing only a few details about his birth parents: when he was born they were university ...

From 1819 to 1969, the U.S. government separated Native American children from their families to eradicate their cultures, assimilate them into White society and seize tribal land. The following ...

Mr. Cannady lent the watch bracelet, as well as a companion bolo tie, belt buckle and ring, to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian in New York City for a 2014 ...

The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian celebrates Native American Heritage Month (Nov. 1 – 31) with numerous events honoring American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian ...

The first Native woman Montgomery Fellow (Dartmouth, 1992), she was the first Native woman elected to both of the two oldest learned societies in the U.S., the American Academy of Arts and ...

Native American adoption era history. The Bureau of Indian Affairs established the Indian Adoption Project in 1958. Like the Boarding School Initiative, the goal of forced Native adoptions was to ...

Keep America Beautiful announced that it will retire the “Crying Indian” ad, which made its first appearance in 1971, and transfer the rights to the National Congress of American Indians Fund.

Author Carrie Lowry Schuettpelz dives into the complexities of indigenous identity and the challenges of Tribal enrollment in her debut book, "The Indian Card: Who Gets to Be Native in America." ...