The Carlisle Indian Industrial School had not yet held its first class when Matavito Horse and Leah Road Traveler were taken ...

My Native American first-grader Logan loves his long braid. It connects my son to our cultural and spiritual traditions as members of the Waccamaw Siouan Tribe of North Carolina. For thousands of ...

The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding that a Kansas elementary school repeal a policy it says forbids boys from wearing long hair after an 8-year-old Native American student was allegedly ...

An 8-year-old boy who is a member of Wyandotte Nation was told by his school that the long hair reflecting his cultural heritage violated its dress code, the A.C.L.U. says. By Jesus Jiménez An ...

For more than 150 years, spurred by federal assimilation policies beginning in the early 19th century, hundreds of thousands of Native American children were sent to boarding schools across the ...

AURORA, Colo. (KDVR) – An investigation is underway to determine who cut the waist-length hair off a Native American man while he was undergoing medical treatment in Colorado. The family said they ...

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