The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

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The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation in Kansas is working to cancel a nearly $30 million federal contract with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) following intense backlash from fellow ...

AS NATIVE AMERICAN HERITAGE MONTH DRAWS TO A CLOSE, WE RECOGNIZE THAT THIS COUNTRY’S HISTORY WITH NATIVE TRIBES IS NOT ALL POSITIVE. SOME OF THAT HISTORY IS TOUGH TO SHARE. BY 1900, THERE WERE ...

Leaders of the Crow Tribe in Montana are working toward revamping tribal citizenship requirements. If the proposal goes through, every currently enrolled tribal citizen would be designated as having ...

Last month, the state of California took an extraordinary stride toward righting the historical wrongs committed against California Native American tribes. In a historic land transfer, the state of ...

The Jamestown Healing Clinic in Sequim, Washington, is owned and operated by the Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. (Ted S. Warren/AP) The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health ...

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more ...

YOSEMITE, CA – A Native American tribe that was displaced by the establishment of Yosemite National Park is getting part of its lands back. The land transfer, from Pacific Forest Trust, is considered ...

Inside a Native American casino in Wisconsin, cards shuffle atop green felt tables and coins clink into metal trays. The Ho-Chunk Nation has offered gambling since 1982. But the real game is happening ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...