School communities from Collinsville, Mascoutah and Granite City joined together at a rally on Sunday to oppose Illinois ...

Drs Lowe and Waterman are co-editors of the award-winning book, Beyond the Asterisks: Native American Students in Higher Education. The eighth annual UB Haudenosaunee research symposium will take ...

Democratic State Rep. Maurice West, left, from Rockford filed the Native American imagery bill. Republican state Rep. Bill Hauter, right, from Morton voted against it. The Illinois House has passed ...

American Airlines Flight 5490, a Bombardier CRJ 900 headed to Charleston, South Carolina, struck American Flight 4522, an Embraer E175 headed to New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport ...

SPRINGFIELD – Illinois K-12 schools may soon be required to pick new mascots to replace those that reference Native American names and imagery. That would include logos, team names and mascots which ...

The Warriors lost this battle. The Amityville School District on Long Island has been strong-armed into changing its beloved Warriors nickname under a state Board of Regents mandate to rid every ...

16TH IN CHICAGO AND NEW ON SEVEN APPS STRUTTING ITS STUFF. THE SCHOOL DISTRICT ANNOUNCING THE 17TH ANNUAL APS NATIVE AMERICAN FASHION SHOW IN JUST THREE DAYS AT THE UNM. CONTINUING ED AUDITORIU ...

Photo credit: iStock/MonaMakela Tobacco use in the form of cigarettes, smokeless tobacco and other commercial products remains one of the leading causes of illness and death in the United States and ...

For years, Native American students in the Rapid City, South Dakota, school district were more likely to be disciplined and less likely to enroll in advanced courses than their White peers.

In doing so, the administration cited a 19th century lawsuit that denied U.S. citizenship to Native Americans. The case is called Elk v. Wilkins. The president’s executive order has been blocked ...

Kennedy Jr. says he is committed to improving the Indian Health Service. Native American leaders have doubts. “It’s shameful,” one said. By Sheryl Gay Stolberg Reporting from Washington ...

Breaking down these aggregates helps break down racial stereotypes too. Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) communities are a diverse and growing segment of the U.S ...