Nancy Tusek, a third-grade teacher in suburban Chicago, is calling it a career after years of lessons. Noel Brennan of CBS ...

Lawmakers wrapped up the spring session without allocating any funding for the Chicago Transit Authority, leaving no plan in ...

The state of Louisiana is home to four federally recognized Indigenous tribes. The Chitimacha Tribe, the Coushatta Tribe of ...

Illinois museums and universities are working to repatriate Native American remains, but the process is slow and emotionally ...

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation ... citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Illinois’ only federally recognized tribe, said that when he started as the tribe ...

were draped in regalia and leading a drum ceremony for the first time in an Illinois that was home to a federally recognized tribe. And it was happening amid a backdrop of Native American groups ...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Earlier this month, the Illinois ... by the American Psychological Association and others, tell the undeniable truth, detailing the adverse effects on Native Americans ...

Gilcrease Museum plans to release another large group of Native American remains and associated items to tribes across the ... 64 “ancestors” collected in Illinois and purchased by Gilcrease ...

The Illinois Senate is ... The Association on American Indian Affairs, a nonprofit organization that aims to protect the rights of Native Americans, condemns the use of native sports team names ...

RELATED: Bill banning Native American team names, mascots in Illinois schools passes House ... Collinsville seems to honor the legacy of the Native Americans. "We incorporate that into our lessons ...