The Illinois State Museum, which holds remains from about 7,000 individuals, is prepared to reunify 1,100 of them with their tribes, according to Brooke Morgan, the museum’s curator of anthropology.

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — For centuries, Europeans carving up the prairie to suit their own idea of settlement dug up the graves of Native Americans as they conquered lands and pushed tribes to ...

More than 50 central Illinois Native Americans will gather today in Springfield to demand inclusion and state recognition. The Native American Summit, organized by the Chicago American Indian ...

The state has agreed to return tribal land in northern Illinois, required schools to teach Native culture, allowed high ...

Illinois Gov. James Thompson agreed, then reversed his decision, claiming the closure would harm tourism while arguing that Native American tribes had no special say in the matter because they ...

Across the country, Native American tribes are struggling to reclaim what was stolen from them over centuries: the remains of their ancestors and personal sacred items, now held in museums ...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Gov. JB Pritzker signed a package of bills Friday extending cultural protections to Native Americans in Illinois and requiring the teaching of Native American history in ...

This update also allows for reburial on state land in Illinois, instead of relocating the remains to the states to which the U.S. government forced Native Americans to move in the 19th century.

More than 50 central Illinois Native Americans will gather today in Springfield to demand inclusion and state recognition. The Native American Summit, organized by the Chicago American Indian ...

Several bills signed into law Friday will help Illinois properly recognize and honor the ancestry of Native Americans. ... return 1,100 of the 7,000 known Native American remains Illinois ...