NORRIS, South Dakota — As the last round of students filters in from the school van to the main hallway, Principal Brian Brown greets each student by name, with a high five and an “I’ve been waiting ...

SEATTLE — A man who held himself out as a Native American activist was sentenced Wednesday to 46 years in prison for drugging and raping women in a case that inspired calls for changes in Washington ...

WARNER — The banners stretch along the top of Warner Public Schools’ Event Center wall, each with the letter A as the centerpiece. Every banner celebrates the 16 overall A grades that schools in the ...

Analysis: The land transfer to the Lac du Flambeau Band by the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration is believed to be the first land-back effort by nuns in an attempt at reconciliation ...

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The former U.S. senator wasn’t a Republican or Democrat, but rather a western politician who cared about his constituents and his Cheyenne people, said those who knew and loved him ...

Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans’ disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law ...

SEATTLE — Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been ...

Tribes across the U.S. are responding to reports of Indigenous people being racially profiled, stopped, questioned and mistakenly detained by federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants as part ...

Before there was a border dividing North America, there was the Ktunaxa Nation. Relatives from all across the Ktunaxa Nation could visit each other freely, and hunt and gather along their vast ...

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WASHINGTON – This won’t be an easy conversation: Can tribal nations love mining? Or at least accept mining as a necessary step in the creation of a clean economy? And can governments and international ...