Tom Goldtooth also spoke with Twilley Martin on the phone multiple times. He said he knew she was under a lot of pressure, but he was clear in his conversations with her about what it would mean for ...

An Ojibwe woman is working to bring back a dress once worn by woodland women called the deer or strap dress as part of a ...

HONOLULU — Lawmakers on Maui passed legislation Thursday aimed at eliminating a large percentage of the Hawaiian island’s vacation rentals to address a housing shortage exacerbated by the wildfire ...

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

Francene Blythe-Lewis spent Friday morning crying at her desk, trying to assess how the loss of nearly half of her organization’s $2.8 million annual budget would impact its ability to support public ...

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — An attack by armed assailants on a patrol of a mission by the Indigenous Wampis guards last week in the Peruvian Amazon has again brought into focus the issue of illegal gold ...

Max Graham Northern Journal A small Canadian company behind a controversial effort to mine uranium in Western Alaska has pulled out of the project, the firm has announced. Panther Minerals last year ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday blocked a lower-court ruling in a redistricting dispute in North Dakota that would gut a landmark federal civil rights law for millions of people. The ...

MACY, Nebraska — The Omaha Tribe of Nebraska became the first government in Nebraska on Tuesday to fully legalize and seek to regulate both medicinal and adult recreational-use cannabis. The Omaha ...

The court found Wednesday that when the Muscogee Nation's citizenship board denied them membership, it violated an 1866 treaty granting citizenship to former slaves once held by the tribe.