Cecily Hilleary

Native Americans assess impact of a second Donald Trump term

A look at some Native American-related headlines this week

Legislation expected to be approved later this year would transfer Shabbona Area State Recreation Area in DeKalb County west of Chicago to Kansas-based Prairie Band Potawatomi

Native Americans today say they still face barriers to casting their votes, six decades after U.S. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act. Many live miles away from voter registration and polling sites and lack access to reliable transportation. Others may not have traditional...

A look at some Native American-related news making headlines this week

A look at some of the Native American-related stories that made headlines this week

A look at Native American-related news making headlines this week

NOTE: This story contains culturally sensitive information that may be distressing for some readers. Caution is advised. WASHINGTON — In the summer of 1889, a group of cynical Chicago crime reporters organized itself as the Whitechapel Club, taking the name of the London district where serial...

A look at Native American-related news making headlines this week

Supreme Court rejects “cancel culture” case The U.S. Supreme Court this week declined to hear former Kentucky high school student Nick Sandmann’s case against several major media outlets for their coverage of his encounter with an Omaha tribe member at an anti-abortion rally in Washington....

In December 1900, John Wesley Powell received “the most unusual Christmas present of any person in the United States, if not in the world,” reported the Chicago Tribune. The gift for this first director of the Smithsonian Institution’s Bureau of Ethnology was a sealskin sack containing the...

A look at Native American-related stories making headlines this week

A look at some Native American-related stories in the news this week.

A look at some of the Native American-related stories that made headlines this week

A law updated in January requires that researchers obtain tribal or lineal descendants’ consent before exhibiting or conducting research on human remains

Elizabeth Weiss says the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act should be scrapped because repatriation hinders scientific research

Tribes sue administration over mega wind energy project Two Native American tribes are suing the U.S. Interior Department and the Bureau of Land Management to halt construction of a $10 billion wind energy transmission line from New Mexico to California. In their complaint, the Tohono...

New NAGPRA rules aim to speed up compliance Revisions to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) went into effect January 12. NAGPRA directs federally funded museums and federal agencies to catalogue all Native American human remains, funerary items, and objects...

‘When they have a problem, they just fix it...they have no choice.’

Some Cherokee women say Mattel overlooked problematic details on the doll and the packaging