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

Monsignor William Scheyd, a longtime priest in the Bridgeport Diocese and a fire department chaplain in Norwalk and New ...

In Maine, Mark Ancker became the first person in the U.S. buried in a mushroom casket—an eco-friendly burial alternative.

A Necropolis is a mere depository for dead bodies,” Douglass wrote. “Green-Wood,” on the other hand, implied “verdure, shade, ...

A leading voice for Native Americans statewide over several decades, he was a founding member and President of the Southern California Tribal Chairman’s Association, also serving on the ...

The cemetery, which opened in 1788, includes the graves of the founders of what became the Village of Clinton.

From Arlington National Cemetery outside the nation's capital to the American burial ground in Normandy, France, presidents ...

South Africa's top law enforcement official says U.S. President Donald Trump wrongly claimed that a video he showed in the Oval Office was of burial sites for more than 1,000 white farmers and ...

We can think of cemeteries as spooky places scarred by sadness, or as beautiful and instructive windows into the lives of ...

(John Autey / Pioneer Press) The former Mounds Park, located on the bluffs overlooking Wakáŋ Tipi, contains six Native American burial mounds — the only such mounds known to exist within the ...

Two of the country’s largest collections of Native American human remains are held ... Dickson Mounds, a museum built atop burial mounds, is in Lewistown, southwest of Peoria.

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) — Gov. Kathy Hochul issued a formal apology Tuesday for the state’s role in a boarding school that separated Native American students from their families with the goal of ...