Over 125,000 Native Voices Were Silenced. Stories of the Trail of Tears In the 1830s, Congress passed the Indian Removal Act, which forcibly removed thousands of American Indians from their homelands in...
Why Native Americans Have Protested Mount Rushmore While Mount Rushmore is considered a treasured destination for some Americans, to Native Americans, it can represent a stinging legacy....
The Cherokee Leader Who Tried to Prevent the Trail of Tears Chief John Ross devoted much of his life to fighting against the forced removal of his people from their ancestral...
Highway of Tears The Highway of Tears refers to a 724 km length of Yellowhead Highway 16 in British Columbia where many women...
U.S. Department of Justice Increases Resources to Investigate Unresolved Violent Crimes in Indian Country “Operation Not Forgotten” Will Surge 60 FBI Personnel to 10 FBI Field Offices to Support Investigations of Indian Country Violent...
The Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools: Stories of Resilience from the Kaibab Paiute Community In 2021, the United States Secretary of the Interior, Deb Haaland, announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative to address...