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May 21

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What Native American children endured at one Missouri boarding school

By Gabrielle Hays, Andrew Corkery

For the first time, the U.S. government released a report this month detailing the abuse and mistreatment of Native children who were forcibly sent to boarding schools in the 1800s. NewsHour’s St Louis community reporter Gabrielle Hays, who has been…

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May 14

U.S. report details church-state collusion on Indigenous schools

By Peter Smith, Associated Press

The role of churches forms a secondary part of the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report, released Wednesday after a yearlong review sparked by the 2021 discoveries of hundreds of potential graves at former residential schools in Canada. Most…

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May 11

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Report details brutal treatment of Indigenous children attending U.S. boarding schools

The federal government on Wednesday detailed for the first time the brutality and treatment Native American children suffered when they were forcibly moved into U.S. boarding schools during the course of 150 years. Deborah Parker, CEO of the National Native…

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May 05

Watch 6:52
Minneapolis restaurateur revives disappearing Native American cuisine

By Fred de Sam Lazaro, Simeon Lancaster

The pandemic took a particularly heavy toll on the restaurant business, with tens of thousands shutting their doors for good. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro visited one unusual establishment that’s bucking the trend, and reviving Native American food traditions…

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Jan 26

Disney updates Jungle Cruise after years of insensitivity criticism

By Associated Press

Disney said in a blog post on Monday that the ride will be updated by Disney "imagineers" at the Disneyland parks with a new storyline and characters that "reflect and value the diversity of the world around us."…

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Jan 01

Australia changes word in national anthem to honor Indigenous people

By Associated Press

Prime Minister Scott Morrison on New Year's Eve announced that the second line of the anthem, Advance Australia Fair, has been changed from "For we are young and free" to "For we are one and free."…

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Dec 19

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Why Native Americans are celebrating Rep. Haaland’s nomination

By PBS NewsHour

President-elect Joe Biden is nominating Representative Deb Haaland to lead the Department of Interior. If confirmed, she would become the first Native American to lead the agency, which is responsible for public lands, including land taken from Indigenous people. Julian…

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Dec 04

Watch 4:16
Indigenous ‘helpers’ train to combat high maternal mortality rates

Women in the U.S. are more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than anywhere else in the developed world, according to the Commonwealth Fund. Native American women face some of the highest rates of death, and in Arizona, those disparities…

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Nov 28

Watch 4:34
Family, sobriety and parenting: an indigenous woman tells her story

By Louise Beaulieu

We continue our series, ‘Turning Points’: stories produced, directed and told by indigenous people from Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories, part of an empowerment journalism project in partnership with the Global Reporting Center. Tonight, we hear from Louise Beaulieu, who…

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Nov 14

Indigenous Canadian filmmakers confront alcoholism, other issues in community

By Chief Ernest Betsina

Alcohol abuse is a serious public health issue in indigenous communities in the Canadian arctic, but it’s a difficult topic to address. For the next several weeks, we’ll bring you the stories from Yellowknife in Canada’s Northwest Territories — stories…

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