Inland Northwest tribes joined Indigenous groups across the country in asking the Defense Department to reinstate web pages highlighting Native American war heroes and veterans that were recently ...

The U.S. Department of Defense in early 2025 removed a webpage about Ira Hayes, a Marine and Pima Nation member best known for being one of the six men who raised a U.S. flag on Iwo Jima during WWII.

Navajo Code Talkers and their family members met with Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff U.S. Marine Corps Gen. Peter Pace at the Pentagon, Aug. 10, 2007. Photo by U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. D.

COLVILLE RESERVATION, Wash. — The chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation is urging the U.S. Department of Defense and other military agencies to reinstate information honoring ...

The Trump administration removed Ira Hayes' Native American heritage from the Iwo Jima flag-raising photo website. The Department of Defense cited "Diversity, Equity and Inclusion programs" as eroding ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily) — Members of Arizona’s Congressional delegation are calling on the Department of Defense to bring back website articles describing two Native American heroes from Arizona. Reps.

As a photographer and retired photo editor for National Geographic Magazine, and someone who has created visual productions for the U.S. military, I’ve spent my career exploring how images shape our ...

In mid-March 2025, a claim circulated online that the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) had removed one or more pages mentioning Pfc. Ira Hayes, a member of the Pima Nation who served in the U.S.