Many Indigenous people have told stories about their time in boarding schools that they’ve kept inside for decades, finally ...

Castro is a retired charter driver and lives in Cortez Hill. When I was diagnosed with pre-diabetes, and weighed 228 pounds at 65, I was referred to a pre-diabetes class held at San Diego American ...

Emery Tahy of San Francisco knows firsthand the struggles of addiction and recovery — a journey that, for him, is intertwined with his experience as a Native American. In his twenties, Tahy landed on ...

The smell of cedar and the sounds of singing filled the garden behind the Alaska Native Heritage Center during the raising of a totem pole that symbolizes healing from the boarding school era. More ...

A walk through any college campus in the United States looks more or less the same: a large open quad with a well-manicured lawn, a historic main hall made of brick and covered in ivy, mature ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) attended 11 of the12 stops across Indian Country, traveling as close as his home ...

Someone once told me that being Native is not easy. I did not fully understand the weight of this statement until I researched my own family history and discovered what happened to my Dakota and ...

A drumming circle at the Friendship House in San Francisco. Friendship House is a Native-led recovery treatment program that provides culturally relevant care. (San Francisco Chronicle/Hearst ...