Ernest L. "Ernie" Stevens Jr., Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and chairman of the Indian Gaming Association board, speaks with Dr. Ramona Klein at the National Day of Remembrance event hosted by the ...

The Trump administration has proposed cutting all federal funding for tribal colleges and universities, the second time in two years it has sought major funding cuts for the institutions. In its ...

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is much closer to bringing Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley home. The tribe filed a federal lawsuit in 2024 against the U.S. Army demanding the return of the two boys, ...

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids has officially filed for reelection to Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District, she said in a May 11 campaign press release. Davids, Ho-Chunk, is the longest-serving Indigenous ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on May 11, 2026, officially rescinded a federal rule requiring officials to consider conservation in land management decisions in areas such as the Valley of Fires ...

Mel Tonasket, former chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, seen during an interview on TVW’s “Inside Olympia.” (Photo by Paul Taylor/TVW) Mel Tonasket says the modern ...

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 ...

FORT SNELLING, Minnesota – Last week, Native activists established a prayer camp near the site of a former internment camp for Dakota people. The camp was established in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, just ...

Comparing the histories of Indian residential schools in Canada with Indian boarding schools in the U.S. is almost like comparing apples with oranges. A true comparison is nearly impossible since so ...

The ceremony was modest, with a handful of tribal leaders and a few citizens looking on as Catholic nuns signed over about two acres of land to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, land ...

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 ...