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Language is Medicine: Navajo Researcher Tackles Speech Delays in Native Communities

When Joshuaa Allison-Burbank worked as a speech pathologist in his home community of the  Navajo Nation, he saw an effect of ...
Yahoo

Native American mothers whose children have been separated from them experience a raw and ongoing grief that has no end

Native American mothers whose children were separated from them – either through child removal for assimilation into residential boarding schools or through coerced adoption – experience the kind of ...
The Desert Sun

Native children do best when connected to their families, cultures, communities | Opinion

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 ...
Yahoo

For nearly 150 years, Native children were sent to boarding schools. Here's what to know

President Joe Biden is expected to formally apologize on Friday to American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians for the abuses committed in boarding schools funded and operated by the federal ...
The Spokesman-Review

Nearly 1,000 native children died at boarding schools, Interior Department finds

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 ...
Kentucky Today

2,000 miles, 2,000 Christmas boxes for Native children

Two Morning Star Ministries leaders drove 2,100 miles in a 26-foot U-Haul box truck across Interstate 40 after Thanksgiving ...
Alaska Dispatch News

Investigation finds at least 973 Native American children died in US government boarding schools

At least 973 Native American children died in the U.S. government’s abusive boarding school system, according to the results of an investigation released Tuesday by Interior Department officials who ...
The Hill

A thousand Native American children died. The system that killed them lives on.

Last month, the U.S. Department of the Interior released a horrendous report showing that at least 900 Native American children died in the care of U.S. boarding schools — facilities they were forced ...
OPB

Native American children significantly more likely to be arrested, detained in Washington

(Dan DeLong/InvestigateWest) For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and jailed than white kids. The state’s courts and ...
Argus Leader

Effective cultural programming for Native foster children is lacking, foster parents say

Editor's note: This is the eighth piece in a six-installment series about Native American children in South Dakota's foster care system, produced in partnership between the Argus Leader and South ...
Oregonian

Native American children more likely to be arrested, jailed in Washington state, data shows

For the past 30 years, it’s been clear: Native American children in Washington state are far more likely to be arrested and jailed than white kids. The state’s courts and Washington Department of ...