New York education officials have refused to rescind the state’s ban on Native American mascots and team names, despite ...

Native American students consistently have one of the lowest postsecondary education enrollment rates among populations, and one of the highest drop-out rates,” Daphne Emm Hooper, director of the ...

A marquee outside Massapequa High School in Massapequa, N.Y., is backdropped by a Chiefs mascot mural on April 25, 2025. The ...

The Indian Health Service was mostly spared in the federal government's widespread staffing cuts, but tribal governments and ...

Bone by bone, two archaeologists lifted the 130-year-old skeletal remains of a Native American girl from the ... numbers and anglicized names. Their long hair was cut. The smallest infraction ...

“The thing that really pushed me was that I wanted to be in uniform and also express my culture, and long hair is significant in all Native American tribes,” Brave Heart said in a release.

Flores, a Native American service member and anti-tank missile gunner, is the first Marine in the Corps to receive a religious waiver allowing him to grow his hair long in accordance with his ...

A Girard, Kansas, dress code policy that led to the forced cutting of an 8-year-old Native American boy’s hair has been rescinded. Girard Board of Education members voted unanimously during a ...

“Present-day policies that restrict Native American boys from wearing long hair must be understood in the historical context of separating Indigenous children from their families and tribes and ...