If upheld by the courts, the Trump administration's proposed freeze on federal grants would affect nearly every tribe ...

Old oil wells on the reservation spew chemical-laden water. The feds have done little to honor treaty obligations to clean them up.

The Corporation for Public Broadcasting funds more than 1,500 public radio and television stations, and of these, 36 tribally ...

Two North Dakota tribes and a group of tribal citizens have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to keep North Dakota’s district map in place while it considers whether to review a voting discrimination ...

The dynamics that fuel Native Americans’ high rates of fatal encounters with police aren’t contained by the borders of reservations. Though it has not been intensely studied, evidence from Harvey’s ...

WASHINGTON – Jonathan Nez is not giving up on becoming the first Native American to represent Congress from Arizona. The former Navajo Nation president announced Tuesday morning another congressional ...

Nathan Gilles Columbia Insight On a sunny day in July, I join a small crowd at the Bonneville Dam outside Cascade Locks, Ore. I’m here for Lampreypalooza, a daylong celebration honoring the Columbia ...

Credit: The Field Museum in Chicago shuttered this exhibit in response to strict new rules under the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, or NAGPRA. The new rules went into ...

A National Indian Child Welfare Association research project concluding in June 2025 finds tribes have redefined and tailored U.S laws governing foster care cases to match the priorities of their ...

Credit: Several hundred people turned out on Friday, Oct. 25, 2024, to hear President Joe Biden issue a formal apology for the United States' ugly history of Indian boarding schools. Here, the crowd ...

WOUNDED KNEE, South Dakota — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed each night in a frontline bunker ...

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