Push to save boarding school of first Native American to get Western medical degree

A man in Kentucky wants to preserve the remnants of the boarding school where the first native American who got a Western medical degree once lived.
Inside Higher Ed

Fort Lewis Welcomes First Native President Amid Reconciliation Process

Fort Lewis College has spent years taking stock of its history as a federal Indian boarding school and working with local ...
WBUR

'First step of healing': Native Americans at Harvard bring ancient sport of stickball to campus

The Native American sport, in which players use two sticks to carry and toss a small ball, is considered one of the oldest ...
The Atlantic

First Native American Saint Opens New Chapter of Catholic History

On Sunday, Pope Benedict XVI canonized Kateri Tekakwitha, the first Native American Saint, and six others in front of some 80,000 people at Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City. These kinds of ...
WGRZ

First Native American posthumously admitted to NY Bar Association

BUFFALO, N.Y. — The New York Appellate Division, Fourth Department, granted posthumous bar admission to Ely Parker. The celebration took place in a ceremonial courtroom in downtown Buffalo. Court ...

Meet the museum director helping tell the country's untold Native history

Meet the head of the First Americans Museum, helping tell the real and continuing story of the nation's original founders ...