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February 17, 2022 | 5:03 PM

Native American tribal leaders seek to have their ancestors remains from the Carlisle Indian School cemetery brought back to their land

Descendants of Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribal leaders will sign the necessary paperwork to help bring home the remains of their ancestors buried in Carlisle.

By The Associated Press
February 2, 2022 | 5:23 AM

Native American tribes reach $590 million opioid settlement

All federally recognized tribes in the U.S. will be able to participate in the settlements, even if they did not sue over opioids.

By Geoff Mulvihill and Felicia Fonseca/The Associated Press
November 16, 2021 | 9:38 AM

Home From School

Native Americans set out to recover the remains of children who died at an Indian boarding school.
By Fred Vigeant

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October 28, 2021 | 5:14 AM

US park service, tourism group partner to highlight tribes — from Pa. to Oregon

Along the Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail, a guidebook has tribal attractions on or near the trail, and a map translates locations into Native languages.

By The Associated Press
October 24, 2021 | 8:15 AM

Philadelphia school works to return Native American remains

The School District of Philadelphia is working to repatriate Native American skeletal remains found in a high school classroom closet this summer.

By Claudia Lauer/AP
Event Date: November 18, 2021

Truth & Reconciliation: Exploring the Painful History of Carlisle’s Native American Boarding School *SOLD OUT*

By Staff
October 10, 2021 | 11:49 AM

As Miss Navajo Nation, she helped her community through the pandemic

The honor became a two-year job

By Lulu Garcia-Navarro and Deepa Shivaram/NPR
October 10, 2021 | 7:45 AM

Tensions persist between legacy of Columbus, native people

Monday’s federal holiday points to another national divide

By Kathleen Foody and Wilson Ring/The Associated Press
July 14, 2021 | 3:12 PM

Indigenous children’s remains turned over from Carlisle Army cemetery

Since August 2017, the Army has disinterred 22 remains of Native American children from the cemetery.

By Mark Scolforo/The Associated Press
July 12, 2021 | 10:33 AM

A federal probe into Indian boarding school gravesites seeks to bring healing

The U.S. is about to undertake a national investigation into hundreds of American Indian boarding schools that operated for more than a century and served to “kill the Indian to save the man.”

By Noelle E. C. Evans/WXXI
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