Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (Photo/NICWA) Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) have introduced bipartisan legislation aimed at ...

Christian Blackbird isn't sure how many children fell through the cracks. He'd been at the Crow Creek Indian Child Welfare Act Office for more than a year with a staff of two under his management. But ...

President Murmu urges tribal communities to educate children, preserve cultural identity ...

"Why would the federal government take over the child welfare agency on an Indian reservation?" the authors ask. "The tribal ...

Lumbee Tribal Chairman John Lowery recently signed the Lumbee Indian Child Welfare Act, which aims to protect the best ...

The justices resolved an issue that has split the state's Court of Appeals and focused attention on a key section of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. When a juvenile court judge knows or has ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), has released a final rule eliminating cost-sharing requirement for Tribal child ...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) — Leo Thompson received plenty of love, food and shelter from the non-Native American family who raised them, but missed out on any exposure to their Indigenous culture, heritage, ...

As the academic year enters its fourth month, a crucial presence is still missing in many tribal classrooms. Children from ultra-marginalised communities like the Adiya, Paniya, Kattunayakan, Urali, ...

Next Friday, 12-year-old Desi Elwell is scheduled for heart surgery - surgery his doctors say is essential to avoid risk of heart failure. Desi, a former foster child from Yakima now living in ...