Excavation began Monday, Oct. 17, 2022, at Red Cloud Indian School in the basement of Drexel Hall, shown here in May 2022 as ground-penetrating radar searched the area where a worker saw what appeared to be three small graves in the 1990s. The radar was inconclusive, so officials agreed to dig up the area.

Election night at makeshift studio at the Phoenix Indian School Visitor Center.

(Photo courtesy of the Native American Community Development Institute & Make Voting A Tradition)

Voters emerge from Sabathani Community Center after casting their ballots during municipal elections Tuesday, Nov. 2, 2021, in Minneapolis.

Jayli Fimbres, of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation, has gone from modeling to the boxing ring, modeling Lauren Good Day fashion designs at the Santa Fe Indian Market on Aug. 22, 2022, and debuting with her first professional boxing fight on Sept. 17, 2022.

Gary Farmer, Cayuga from the Six Nations of Grand River, received the August Schellenberg Award for Excellence in recognition of a career that has spread over four decades at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto.

The biggest show in Indian Country rodeo will be on display this week in Sin City.

Aboriginal Ngarrindjeri elder Major Sumner, shown here in a 2009 photo in traditional regalia, welcomes the return of Australian Indigenous peoples remains from London. Sumner was recognized for lifetime achievement and inducted into the South Australian Environment Hall of Fame in October 2022 for his work.

Indigenous leader Sonia Guajajara from the Guajajara ethnic group shows her hands painted in red symbolizing bloodshed, during a protest against violence, illegal logging, mining and ranching, and to demand government protection for their reserves, one day before the celebration of “Amazon Day,” in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Sunday, Sept. 4, 2022. Guajajara is among 60 Indigenous candidates running for seats in both houses of Congress to increase Indigenous representation in Brazil.