In the weeks after the brutal slaying of Emily Pike, the 14-year-old San Carlos Apache girl who went missing from a group home in Mesa, some child welfare experts say the system meant to protect ...

More than 18,000 children were shipped off to faraway schools in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Nearly 900 known deaths occurred in the 417 federal-run institutions, along with uncounted cases of ...

For nearly a century, California and other states forced Native American youth into boarding schools, aiming to erase their cultural practices while separating children from parents, placing them in a ...

PHOENIX — A new lawsuit seeks to void provisions of federal laws that challengers say illegally place the desires of Native American tribes over the constitutionally protected best interests of ...

A busy summer is winding down at the Cherokee Nation Public Health Department in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. But administrative assistant Jennie Laconsello is still fielding plenty of questions from families ...

Lisa Iron Cloud grew up poor. The Oglala Lakota woman's family moved frequently, sometimes living on the Pine Ridge reservation, other times in nearby Rapid City, South Dakota. Family meals came from ...

The U.S. Army has finished this year’s disinterment at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School, with nine sets of Native American children’s remains returned to their tribes. At a press ...

Tribes challenged to support families in crisis and kids in need of care are even more challenged to serve vulnerable people after Trump administration budget cuts. Tribes whose social services ...