Native American
Man pleads guilty in eagle ‘killing spree’ on reservation to sell feathers on black market
By Matthew Brown and Amy Beth Hanson — March 20, 2024
(AP) – Branson and a second defendant, Simon Paul, killed approximately 3,600 birds, including eagles on the Flathead reservation and elsewhere, according to the indictment.
In America, national parks are more than scenic − they’re sacred. But they were created at a cost to Native Americans
By Thomas S. Bremer — November 22, 2023
(The Conversation) — The idea of Manifest Destiny inspired Americans to push west, leading to the creation of the first national parks. But those beliefs spelled removal for many Native American groups.
US government agrees to help restore sacred Native American site destroyed for Oregon road project
By Claire Rush — October 9, 2023
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — In a settlement filed with the high court Thursday, the U.S. Department of Transportation and other federal agencies agreed to replant trees and aid in efforts to rebuild an altar at a site along U.S. Highway 26.
Montana acts to protect Native American priority in adopting Native children
By Matthew Brown — May 24, 2023
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — It's a proactive move to protect such rights as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case that could undercut them nationally.
Why winter solstice matters around the world: 4 essential reads
By Molly Jackson — December 21, 2022
(The Conversation) — The dead of winter, when the longest night of the year takes place, has also traditionally been celebrated as a time of renewal and reverence.
Religion plays a role in Native American adoption case before Supreme Court
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 9, 2022
(RNS) — Legal activists argue that Brackeen v. Haaland could inhibit Native American children’s contact with their religious traditions while extending a long history of white Christian efforts to convert Native children and remove them from their homes and families.
Reckoning with their history, Lutherans issue declaration to Indigenous peoples
By Emily McFarlan Miller — August 11, 2022
COLUMBUS, Ohio (RNS) — The largest Lutheran denomination in the United States shared its Declaration of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America to American Indian and Alaska Native People for the first time in person Wednesday (Aug. 10) at its triennial Churchwide Assembly in Columbus, Ohio.
Episcopalians approve fact-finding commission on Indigenous boarding schools
By Emily McFarlan Miller — July 12, 2022
(RNS) — The resolution comes as U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland kicks off ‘The Road to Healing,’ a national tour listening to the stories of survivors of Indian boarding schools in the United States.
Mine can be built on Apache sacred site, Oak Flat, federal appeals court rules
By Alejandra Molina — June 27, 2022
(RNS) — The Apache Stronghold coalition said they will appeal to the US Supreme Court.
Native American leaders push for boarding school commission
By Susan Montoya Bryan — June 23, 2022
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The dark history of Native American boarding schools — where children were prohibited from speaking their languages and often abused — has been felt deeply across Indian Country and through generations.
Department of Interior releases first report detailing US Indian boarding schools
By Emily McFarlan Miller — May 11, 2022
(RNS) — The Roman Catholic Church and a number of Protestant denominations are beginning to investigate their own roles in those boarding schools.
Native America has lessons for surviving an apocalypse, says Choctaw elder and Episcopal priest
By Emily McFarlan Miller — November 24, 2021
(RNS) — The Rev. Steven Charleston talked to Religion News Service about his new book, 'Ladder to the Light,' and what Native America has to teach others about climbing out of darkness.
Spotty data and media bias delay justice for missing and murdered Indigenous people
By Wendelin Hume — November 24, 2021
(The Conversation) — Thousands of cases of missing and murdered Native Americans remain unsolved. A scarcity of reliable data is only part of the problem, a tribal justice scholar explains.
Biden restores Bears Ears, other monuments cut by Trump
By Matthew Daly — October 8, 2021
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday restored two sprawling national monuments in Utah, reversing a decision by President Donald Trump that opened for mining and other development hundreds of thousands of acres of rugged lands sacred to Native Americans and home to ancient cliff dwellings and petroglyphs. The Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante […]
Catholic, Protestant groups support commission on US Indian boarding school policy
By Emily McFarlan Miller — October 4, 2021
(RNS) — US Senator Elizabeth Warren and the co-chairs of the Congressional Native American Caucus reintroduced the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies in the United States Act on Sept. 30, which many observed as a National Day of Remembrance for US Boarding Schools.
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