Native Americans

Historian Patricia Cleary’s new book details the history of the more than two dozen mounds that once stood in St. Louis.

A bill to grant the tribe a 1,500-acre state park stalled in the final hours of the Illinois legislature's spring session

Counterpublic, a St. Louis nonprofit organization that produces public art projects, is placing “erased history markers” at city intersections where streets named for Native American peoples meet streets named for the places from which white settlers removed them.

The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the decision Friday, placing 130 acres into trust for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, giving the tribal nation sovereignty over the land after the U.S. auctioned off its land 175 years ago.

The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is involved in the academic research because the federal agency has some of the foremost experts on the mapping tool being used, the researchers said.

With the country’s second-largest collection of unrepatriated remains, Illinois has lagged far behind the nation. A new law has the Osage Nation hopeful there will soon be progress.

Last year, the Department of the Interior released a report about Federal Indian Boarding Schools in the U.S. What is their legacy in Illinois?

Illinois students will soon have to learn Native American history. But Native American students say it needs to be more than about the past.

“Action/Abstraction Redefined: Modern Native Art, 1940s-1970s” is St. Louis Art Museum’s first exhibition of modern and contemporary Native American art.

Each year, a group of young members of the Cherokee Tribes gets on bikes and retraces the Trail of Tears their ancestors traveled when relocated by the U.S. government almost 100 years ago. They hope to bring more understanding and acknowledgement of the tragic event.