Native American mothers whose children were separated from them – either through child removal for assimilation into residential boarding schools or through coerced adoption – experience the ...

Ashley L. Landers collaborates with First Nations Repatriation Institute on research. The study referenced in this article received receives funding from a Niles Research Grant from the College of ...

Soto Alvarez touches the grave of her foster mother, Carmen Alvarez, at Monte Calvario Cemetery in Tucson this month. (Joshua Lott/The Washington Post) Native American children are far more likely ...

The president took the stage in the Gila River Indian Community to officially apologize for the federal boarding school era. ...

But while studying at Dartmouth College, she took classes that interested her, particularly studio art and Native American Studies ... Tsouhlarakis, who is the mother of three young children, ...

Daryle Conquering Bear Crow was 11 when his grandmother died and his mother ... American Civil Liberties Union sued officials in one county in South Dakota where the state had removed Native ...

Onondaga Nation Clan Mother Wendy Gonyea remembers walking into the Westhill High School gym and coming face to face with an enormous blue image of a Native American ... do all the kids in the ...

There were constant put-downs of the children’s Native identity, and the belittling phrase, “dirty Indian” — which Pember said lingered in her mother’s ears for years. These stories ...