On June 15, tribes across California and the nation will mark the second annual ICWA Day, a moment to celebrate the historic 2023 U.S. Supreme Court decision that overwhelmingly affirmed the ...

State officials in New York say the Salmon River district's special education program confined young children with ...

WASHINGTON – Nearly 1,000 American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian children died while attending boarding schools that were set up by the U.S. government for the purpose of erasing their ...

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a decades-old federal law that gives preference to Native American families in foster care and adoption proceedings involving Native children. In a 7-2 ruling, the ...

Washington — The Supreme Court on Thursday declined to disturb a federal law that governs the process for the placement of Native American children in foster or adoptive homes, rejecting ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. President Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize on Friday to American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians for the ...

Worried about a pending U.S. Supreme Court case, some states aim to pass new laws ensuring American Indian children can stay in their tribal communities even if they’re placed in the child welfare ...

Native American tribal leaders and legal experts celebrated a "resounding victory" Thursday after the Supreme Court left intact the federal law that gives preference to Native families in foster care ...

The justices rejected a broad attack from Republican-led states and white families who argued that the system is based on race. File photo: The Supreme Court has preserved the system that gives ...

This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico. There once was a girl who lived in Corrales and loved collecting butterflies. She would capture perhaps 20 or 30 of them at a time, take ...

In 2016 Chad and Jennifer Brackeen, a white, evangelical couple from Fort Worth, began fostering a Navajo and Cherokee boy. After they petitioned to adopt him the following year, a judge in Texas ...