Native Americans

The remains of five Native American children who died at a notorious Indian boarding school more than a century ago will be returned to their living relatives.

Idaho Matters takes a look at the news that made headlines this week, including the results of the BPD investigation, an update on the state budget and a breakdown of the Boise State of the City address.

The COVID-19 public health emergency is set to lift this Thursday. Over more than three years of pandemic, Native American communities were particularly hard hit.

As a part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, the Department of Interior and the National Endowment for the Humanities will be digitizing records that document the experiences of those who survived such schools, as well as their descendants. $4 million from the NEH will also support an oral history project with those people.

The proposed monument's name would include the Havasupai phrase "Baaj Nwaavjo," which means "where tribes roam," and the Hopi phrase "I’tah Kukveni," which means "our footprints."

The Center for Native American Youth is collecting survey data to better understand the lives and needs of American Indian and Alaska Native youth.

For 40 years, the Jemez Pueblo in New Mexico has been working to access the water they feel they’re owed by the federal government. And those efforts are more urgent than ever as climate change and development continue to affect their water supplies.

That law bars efforts to misleadingly present products as having been produced by tribal members, and the changes would expand the definition of what constitutes an "Indian Product" under the law and in some cases allow for non-native labor in the making of such products.

A new report shows the overrepresentation of Native Americans and Alaska Natives in state prison systems, and some of the greatest disparities are in the Mountain West.

A new database reveals that museums and universities across the U.S. still hold the remains of more than 100,000 Native Americans, despite a federal law passed more than 30 years ago to help return their remains to tribes.