Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. More than 18,000 children were shipped off to faraway schools in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Nearly 900 known deaths ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Headquarters of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan. SAULT STE. MARIE — Two bills ...

The remains of five children who died at a Pennsylvania boarding school for Native Americans are going to be exhumed and returned to their families who have waited for their return for more than a ...

San Diego County tribal leaders celebrated last week’s U.S. Supreme Court decision that upheld the Indian Child Welfare Act, a law enacted to thwart a long history of children being removed from ...

Tribes challenged to support families in crisis and kids in need of care are even more challenged to serve vulnerable people after Trump administration budget cuts. Tribes whose social services ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday left intact a decades-old law that prioritizes the placement of Native American children with Native families or tribes in child custody proceedings, rejecting challenges ...

The House Judiciary Committee voted unanimously on HB40 on Feb. 22, moving the bill along to be voted on in the House. As of Feb. 23, the bill is in the second reading within the House. HB40, a bill ...

SPOKANE, Wash. — United States Attorney Pete Serrano says that the former Assistant Director of the Spokane Tribe's Division of Child and Family Services was sentenced to 25 counts of bank fraud and ...

Opinion editor's note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom. The U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the Indian Child ...

In Native American communities, if parents cannot raise their children, they are often placed with elders, aunts or uncles, according to Jamie Stuck, president of the United Tribes of Michigan.

More than 18,000 children were shipped off to faraway schools in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Nearly 900 known deaths occurred in the 417 federal-run institutions, along with uncounted cases of ...