Across the country, Native American tribes are struggling to reclaim what ... and the state of Illinois tops the list of having the highest number of ancestral remains that haven't been reunited ...

Illinois’ legislative session concluded without passage of a Native American K-12 school mascot ban, but another issue sought ...

were draped in regalia and leading a drum ceremony for the first time in an Illinois that was home to a federally recognized tribe. And it was happening amid a backdrop of Native American groups ...

Two of the country’s largest collections of Native American human remains are held by museums in Illinois.  To the director ...

The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation ... citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, Illinois’ only federally recognized tribe, said that when he started as the tribe ...

Schools with team names of Native American tribes or persons can continue to use that name if consent is obtained from that tribe. The following schools in northern Illinois could be impacted by ...

Andrew Johnson, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and executive director of the Native American Chamber of Commerce of ...

The Illinois Senate is currently considering a bill that would ban the use of Native American names and logos ... said their mascots — the Mascoutah Indians, the Collinsville Kahoks and Granite ...

According to the Illinois General Assembly’s website, HB1237 defines prohibited school mascots based on federally recognized tribes, historical Native American people or groups, or other ...

Pat Nabong/Sun-Times Share Earlier this month, the Illinois ... in the Native American community to offer up the truth: Native identity and customs are the traditions of the tribes and its citizens.

A billed passed in the Illinois House of Representatives banning specific mascots and logos related to Native American names and ... Chieftains, Tribe, Indians, or any synonymous term” as ...