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 ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) – A common thread running through Native American tribes’ commentary on their banishment of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem involves comments she has made about children. While ...

Opinion editor's note: Editorials represent the opinions of the Star Tribune Editorial Board, which operates independently from the newsroom. The U.S. Supreme Court decision upholding the Indian Child ...

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 ...

But of 440 Indian children in foster care in South Dakota as of July 1, 2011, 381 - nearly 9 in 10 - resided in non-Indian foster homes. In one recent case, grandparents of a child and their tribe ...

Native American nations say the Supreme Court's rejection of a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from state governments. They say the case ...

Local American tribes in Whatcom County reacted to a U.S. Supreme Court decision last week that gives preference to Native Americans looking to foster or adopt Native American children. The decision ...

In Native American communities, if parents cannot raise their children, they are often placed with elders, aunts or uncles, according to Jamie Stuck, president of the United Tribes of Michigan.

Local tribal members from the Kalispel Tribe of Indians hosted a Media Camp on Thursday to help local kids learn more about film production. Tribal member paired up kids from the local area who want ...

OF THE SHAWNEE MISSION. HOME FOR YEARS, WE. GO, WE GO. HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY, HOLY. HE DID FOR US OUR HISTORY, OUR LONG HISTORY AND RELATIONSHIP WITH KANSAS IS MORE THAN JUST A BUILDING. IT’S HERE.

Editor’s note: This is the first story in a three-part series about how Utes students have been failed by educators for decades. Read the second part here. The third part is available here. Whiterocks ...