Assimilation benefits not only immigrants but also the native-born by boosting job prospects, personal satisfaction, and social cohesion.

Special to ICT More Native students than ever before will graduate this year with regalia on their traditional caps and gowns ...

The cuts are just a fraction of the grants canceled by the National Endowment for the Humanities in recent weeks as part of the Trump administration’s deep cost-cutting effort across the federal ...

Manifest Destiny emerged prominently in the 19th-century United States, proclaiming that Americans had a divinely ordained mission to expand across the continent. Advocates selectively cited biblical ...

Our immigration policy makes our so-called democracy a sham. A ruling party or class does not need to compromise when it can ...

Mary Annette Pember’s mother​ attended an Indian residential school through the eighth grade. It forever changed her—and her ...

Though Native American families have long known about the trauma of forced assimilation, new reports have "woken up all our hearts and pains," said Jody Roy, center director. (Courtesy of Jody Roy ...

The Santa Fe museum actively cultivates the soil for current and future generations of Native artists to thrive, a duty that extends far beyond preservation and display.

Heather Shotton, an enrolled citizen of the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes and a descendant of the Kiowa and Cheyenne tribes, ...

In “Medicine River,” Mary Annette Pember recounts what happened to her mother, and many like her, who were abused in Indian ...

COPOMIAO, which has spent the past five years leading advocacy and legal efforts nationwide to preserve Columbus monuments ...

At least 973 Native American children died at government ... researchers say the actual number was much higher. The forced assimilation policy officially ended with the enactment of the Indian ...