U.S. Secretary of Education Linda McMahon calls the statewide ban a violation of civil rights law as Massapequa fights to ...

The U.S. Department of Education says New York’s ban on Native American mascots violates federal civil rights law.

It was planned as a Native American-governed state, until politicians folded Indigenous lands into Oklahoma—a decision that still impacts life there today. Before Oklahoma was a U.S. state ...

New York education officials won't rescind the state's ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite threats from ...

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President Donald Trump’s top education official says her department has determined that New York is discriminating against a ...

The New York State Education Department shot back forcefully Friday, calling the federal action a "sham" and "political ...

Two tribal nations filed a lawsuit Thursday saying that the federal government used the trust fund money of tribes to pay for boarding schools where generations of Native children were ...

In 2022, the U.S. Department of the Interior, under the direction of Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native American to run the agency, released a scathing report on the legacy of the boarding ...

Gov. Kathy Hochul (D-NY) issued the first apology from a sitting governor to the Seneca Nation for a boarding school’s treatment of Native Americans. Hochul was in Irving, New York, near the ...

There are blind spots," Hill said. According to the 2020 census, those who identify themselves as American Indian and Alaska Native make up 1.9% of the population in Spokane County. Hill said she ...

The U.S. operated or supported 408 national Native American boarding schools across 37 states between 1819 and 1969, according to a 2022 U.S. Interior Department report, which detailed rampant ...