In recent years, there have been a number of dramas and documentaries detailing the appalling mistreatment of Native American ...

On April 5, NAA will be hosting its first annual powwow in the Quiet Side of Commons. The event is free and open to members of the UP community and the general public. According to DeSheuquette, while ...

The Native American Church developed into a distinct way of life around 1885 among the Kiowa and Comanche of Oklahoma. After 1891, it began to spread as far north as Canada. Now, more than 50 ...

The first buildings on the UMN Morris campus housed an American Indian boarding school. Administered by the Sisters of Mercy order of the Catholic Church and later by the United States government, the ...

Until March 31, the Diocese of Gallup, New Mexico, is accepting applications for the 2025 St. Kateri Rosary Walk internship ...

They were made to go to Christian church services. They were encouraged to mock their parents’ values. The aim of the boarding schools was to destroy the Native American identity of these young ...

His youngest is a head fireman in the Native American church ceremonies. Washoe Elder Violet Pete, 69, told CBS News the crackle of burning wood has been the soundtrack to her life. In her ...

Leonardo DiCaprio and his production outfit Appian Way have joined Shannon Kring’s investigative documentary Nine Little Indians about abuses at a U.S. boarding school for Native American children.

The enormous success of the temperance movement among native-born American women between 1874 ... when the separation between church and state transformed Protestant denominations into a set ...