The Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 sought to keep Native children in tribal communities. The Supreme Court may change that this spring. Childhood photos of Chris Stearns, who was born a Navajo ...

In his memoir, "This Indian Kid," he also recalls times he lived with his mother and stepdad and younger siblings in small towns around Oklahoma: Tishomingo, Calera, Hanna, Milburn. By the time he ...

In his memoir, “This Indian Kid,” he also recalls times he lived with his mother and stepdad and younger siblings in small towns around Oklahoma: Tishomingo, Calera, Hanna, Milburn.

“It felt like a pattern, like, why was it another Indian kid?” said Virag Shah, 21, a junior at Purdue University in Indiana, where two of the seven deaths occurred. “It just felt traumatic.