Native Americans

The Collinsville Kahoks, Granite City Warriors and Freeburg Midgets are some of the Metro East schools that could be required to change if the bills pass.

The rally on Sunday was hosted by three of the affected districts: the Collinsville Kahoks, Mascoutah Indians and Granite City Warriors.

The proposed legislation passed in the Illinois House of Representatives on Thursday. The Mascoutah Indians, Collinsville Kahoks, Cahokia High School Comanches and Whiteside Junior High’s Warriors could all be required to change.

The memorial is meant to foster understanding and collective healing for the small Missouri town.

Much of Sugarloaf Mound will return to the Osage Nation, thanks to a recent land transfer. It’s the oldest man-made structure in St. Louis.

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.