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About 150 artifacts considered sacred by the Lakota Sioux peoples are being returned to them after being stored at a small Massachusetts museum for more than a century. Members of the Oglala Sioux and Cheyenne River Sioux Tribes traveled from South Dakota to take custody of the weapons, pipes, moccasins and clothing, including several items thought to have a direct…

It was a stunning image: Pope Francis briefly wearing a full Indigenous headdress, after he apologized for the Catholic Church’s role in Canada’s “disastrous” residential school system for Indigenous children.

Pope Francis delivered an apology Monday for the “catastrophic” abuses committed against Canada’s Indigenous communities, many of whom were forced into Catholic residential schools where physical and sexual abuse was prevalent.

Pope Francis has landed in Canada, beginning a fraught visit to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses by missionaries at residential schools.

Pope Francis plans to apologize to Indigenous groups on Canadian soil for harms inflicted at church-run residential schools. When he does, Francis will add to the Catholic Church’s growing ledger of atonement for past transgressions.

Pope Francis has made a historic apology to Indigenous Peoples for the “deplorable” abuses suffered in Canada’s residential schools.

Women’s ice hockey forward Abby Roque will be the first Indigenous woman to represent Team USA at a Winter Olympics – and she’s hopeful her sport will become more accessible to Indigenous kids, she says on the My New Favorite Olympian podcast.

In this full episode of the My New Favorite Olympian podcast, hosts Apolo Ohno and Ngozi Ekeledo hear from Abby Roque, Jim Roque, Chief Larry Roque, Ted Nolan and former Anishinabek Grand Council Chief Patrick Wedaseh Medahbee.

A new generation of Indigenous artists is decolonizing the status quo.

In honor of Veterans Day, NBCLX explores what motivates Native Americans to serve in the military, their contributions to the U.S. armed forces and the challenges they face when they get out.

November is National Native American Heritage Month, honoring the heritage of Native American and Indigenous peoples. It is also referred to as National American Indian Heritage Month or National American Indian and Alaska Native Heritage Month. Here’s why the month is celebrated. National Native American Heritage month is celebrated annually in November to recognize Native American and Indigenous peoples, the...

A federal grant will help expand and improve a Vermont center that celebrates the culture of the area’s original inhabitants and provides educational opportunities about Native American heritage. “I can’t wait to bring our grandchildren,” said Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vermont, the chairman of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee. Leahy delivered $250,000 in funding for the Vermont Indigenous Heritage Center,...

President Joe Biden has issued the first-ever presidential proclamation of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

A report says 710 Indigenous people were reported missing in the state over the past decade.

Richard Monette’s mother attended an Indigenous school in Canada and had to adhere to a strict regimen like washing dishes and scraping wax off the floors. The schools, many of which banned Indigenous languages and culture, made headlines recently when mass graves were found – holding the bodies of students who did not survive the strict system. But Monette says...

Leaders of Indigenous groups in Canada said Thursday investigators have found more than 600 unmarked graves at the site of a former residential school for Indigenous children.

You may have seen headlines about 215 children being found in a mass grave behind a school in Kamloops, Canada. Law professor Nicole Schabus explains the system that put those children there – in which Canada sent more than 150,000 First Nation children to Indigenous schools. The system sought to convert the children to Christianity and prevent them from speaking their native languages.

The remains of 215 children, some as young as 3 years old, have been found buried on the site of what was once Canada’s largest Indigenous residential school