Native Americans

Arizona’s governor on Tuesday signed legislation to create an alert system for Native Americans who have gone missing in the state.

The Massapequa School Board president has said it could cost more than $1 million to rebrand the school if the name and mascot are changed.

Dozens of people attended the first ever indigenous art and culture festival in Escondido. The city hopes it’s the first of many more to come.

This is the first time the festival is being held in North County. NBC 7’s Adonis Albright reports.

The event on Saturday was geared towards uplifting and celebrating Native American culture. NBC 7’s Kelvin Henry spoke to staff who say they hope to hold more events in the future.

San Diego Miramar College and San Diego Unified School District’s Title VI & Johnson O’Malley Indian Education Program partnered to host the inaugural Powwow at the college’s campus.

To help end violence, a coalition of four San Diego County tribes and the San Diego Harbor Police Foundation have just received a $2 million, three-year grant, awarded by the California Board of State and Community Corrections.

More than a dozen tribal leaders are in San Diego to find solutions to the disappearances of members of California’s indigenous tribes, reports NBC 7’s Joe Little.

President Joe Biden has commuted the sentence of Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents and is serving life in prison. Peltier was denied parole as recently as July and wasn’t eligible for parole again until 2026.

A Feather Alert is in effect in San Diego County Sunday on behalf of a 64-year-old man last seen in San Jacinto three months ago.

Peyote, a cactus that contains mescaline, a hallucinogen, grows naturally in South Texas and northern Mexico. It is sacred to many Indigenous people, playing a central role in their ceremonies, spiritual practice and medicine.

While American Indian and Alaska Native students in California have made progress in academics, persistent barriers and challenges still exist for these scholars, a report released Friday by Cal State San Marcos found.

President Joe Biden designated a national monument at a former Native American boarding school site in Pennsylvania to commemorate the resilience of tribes whose children were forced to attend the school and similar abusive institutions.

President Joe Biden delivered an apology Friday for a United States policy that forcibly separated generations of indigenous children from their families for more than 150 years and sent them to federally backed boarding schools for forced assimilation. 

An act of Congress a century ago guaranteed citizenship to wary Native Americans in an age of forced assimilation and marked the outset of a long journey to secure voting rights.

The event at Balboa Park brings tribe members from not only San Diego County but from all over the country together.

The event at Balboa Park brings tribe members from not only San Diego County but from all over the country together. NBC 7’s Adonis Albright reports on May 11, 2024.

Rural Division Detectives with the sheriff’s department confirmed the woman was found safe and California Highway Patrol lifted the Feather Alert

President Joe Biden will sign an executive order during a tribal nations summit that aims to make it easier for Native Americans to access federal funding and have greater autonomy over how to invest those funds. White House domestic policy advi