Indigenous Youth and Families

The Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation has awarded a $750,000 grant to the nonprofit California Tribal Families Coalition to expand legal advocacy for Indigenous children and families.

After recording more than 380 stories from Indigenous boarding school survivors in 19 states, a national oral history project made its final stop in Tulsa on Friday.

An oral history project led by the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition is concluding in Tulsa, Oklahoma this month.

Pascua Yaqui tribal secretary and former foster youth Rosa Alvarez shares her memories and accounts of generations in the child welfare system. 

Hundreds of marches, rallies, talking circles, self-defense classes and candlelight vigils are planned for the week of May 5, which is observed as a national day of awareness for the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples movement.

Indigenous people nationwide have raised their fists, their poster boards and their voices for a message: They will not stand silently by while their relatives are killed or disappear.

Nanette Star recently stepped into her new role as the director of Tribal Relations for Washington state's Department of Children, Youth, and Families.

On this week’s episode, The Imprint’s Nancy Marie Spears sits down with reporter Suzette Brewer to discuss her recent two-part series on the tragic past and promising future of birth justice for the Native American community.