It's been 51 years since Deedee Lerat, 60, attended the Marieval Indian Residential School on her home reservation of Cowessess in Saskatchewan, Canada. But the memories of the abuses the Salteaux Cree woman endured there still haunt her. “There was so much fear,” she says.

The city of Albuquerque will become the first US city to use ground-penetrating radar to search for remains of Native American children buried in unmarked gravesites over a century ago.

Two men from the Navajo Nation made history at Saturday's Rio Grande Rivalry game, with a first-of-its-kind radio broadcast in Albuquerque. For the first time ever, two men from the Navajo Nation announced a D-1 college football game in the Navajo Language.

A new language reawakening program is giving young adults of Stoney Nakoda First Nation in Alberta a fully immersive experience — with the goal of reclaiming the Stoney language and keeping it alive for generations to come.

For five months, a group of 12 people between the ages of 18 and 26 will be taught Stoney, known locally as lethka, in the First Nation nestled in the foothills west of Calgary.

As Indigenous community members and archaeologists continue to discover unmarked graves of Indigenous children at the sites of Canadian residential schools, the United States is reckoning with its own history of off-reservation boarding schools.

In July 2021, nine Sicangu Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania were disinterred and returned to their homelands at Whetstone Bay in South Dakota.

August 13, 2021 marks Day 40 on Bearsun's journey from Los Angeles to New York to raise awareness about mental health, autism, cancer and environmental defense and the disable community and as of today he is in Cuba, NM.

Citizen Potawatomi Nation tribal member Margaret Pearce, Ph.D., took one cartography class at University of Massachusetts and spent the next several decades of her life creating and teaching others the art of map-making.

"I'd always been an outdoors kind of person and also a kind of a pen-and-ink person," Pearce said. "And when I learned cartography, or at the time that I was interested in cartography in college, it wasn't really on computers yet. It was still being taught at pen-and-ink level, and that really appealed to me."

Food was prepped, she had practiced her lines, and now it was time to wrangle the butterflies in her stomach. He could be here at any moment. The TV cameras had already been in place for a while, her friends were also waiting patiently. Maybe he had booked an early flight back to Cornwall?

This year's Cherokee National Treasures will be honored during a virtual ceremony at the 69th annual Cherokee National Holiday.

Cherokee National Treasures preserve and promote Cherokee art and culture, according to the tribe.

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Aug. 4 passed the Durbin Feeling Native American Language Act of 2021, a bipartisan bill named in honor of the late Cherokee linguist.

Sens. Brian Schatz, (D-Hawai'i) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) introduced the bill, which was initially proposed by former Sen. Tom Udall (D-New Mexico) in 2020. Udall proposed the legislation on the 30th anniversary of the Native American Language Act signed by President George H.W. Bush in 1990.

There weren't any fans cheering on Canadian athletes at the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo, but you could hear the beat of a custom-made drum from the Squamish Nation of British Columbia.

Squamish artist Tsawaysia Spukus created the drum for Team Canada's Chef de Mission Marnie McBean, who wanted a loud way to support athletes after cheering, clapping and whistling were banned by Olympic officials because of COVID-19.

Oklahoma Magazine recently named Citizen Potawatomi Nation Health Services Director of Clinical Operations, Lauren Bristow, as one of the top 40 young professionals in Oklahoma. The publication recognizes 40 individuals annually who "reach beyond the expected" and make a positive impact in their communities and state as a whole.

Minnesota has made history by naming its first Native American poet laureate: Gwen Nell Westerman, an English professor at Minnesota State University Mankato and citizen of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate tribe in South Dakota.

White Sands National Park, in southern New Mexico, is known for chalk-coloured dunes that stretch for hundreds of square kilometres. But at the height of the last Ice Age, the region was wetter and grassier. Mammoths, giant sloths and other animals walked the muddy shores of shallow lakes that grew and shrank with the seasons. And they had company.