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Amid the annual bustle at the Illinois Capitol during the legislative session’s midpoint, a sea of color and singing filled the rotunda on a sunny March day. Attendees of the 2025 Native American ...

For decades, the Montana Constitution has made preservation of American Indian culture an explicit educational goal. But educators did little about it until 2004, when the state supreme court ruled ...

Illinois public schools would be required to teach lessons on Midwestern Native American history beginning in the 2024-25 school year under a measure passed by state legislators that is expected to be ...

In honor of Veterans Day and Native American Heritage Month, learn about the legacy of Native American service and the memorial that pays tribute to them. Rebecca Head Trautmann Jesse T. Hummingbird ...

The U.S. Department of Education said Native Hawaiian, American Indian and Alaska Native history will not be categorized as “diversity, equity and inclusion ” or “critical race theory ” under the ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Holly Corbett covers bias, workplace culture, and social movements. The Friday after Thanksgiving may be best known as Black ...

While many people focus on shopping deals the day after Thanksgiving, Native leaders hoped Americans also used the day to honor the country's first peoples. The Friday after Thanksgiving is not only ...

George Growingthunder looked at the ancient rock carvings and wept as the sun rose over Jeffers Petroglyphs, a historical site in southwestern Minnesota. He was thankful to visit the land of his ...