Native girl survives night alone in forest with help of three dogs (May 2, 2016)

Family became worried as temperatures dropped overnight but Meghan emerged unharmed on the Frog Lake First Nation in Alberta.

Blackfeet Nation welcomes Interior Secretary Jewell to homeland (May 2, 2016)

Chairman Harry Barnes will help announce a milestone for the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations.

Lakota Country Times: State shows cards in fight over sacred Black Hills site (May 2, 2016)

Although South Dakota Governor Dennis Daugaard's most recent comments to the Rosebud Sioux Tribal Council regarding Pe' Sla have grabbed the headlines, it is the legal filings in the matter that illuminate the state's opposition to the land being transferred into trust status.

Kevin Washburn: Land buy-back program benefits Indian Country (May 2, 2016)

The Land Buy-Back Program returns tribal lands to tribes and furthers tribal self-governance.

University president doesn't see seal that excludes Native people as racist (May 2, 2016)

The symbol features a Spanish conquistador with a sword and a European settler with a gun. A Native person is missing.

Gathering of Nations wraps up with crowning of Miss Indian World (May 2, 2016)

The 33rd annual powwow drew more than 100,000" people to Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Mark Trahant: Native newspapers and presidential endorsements (May 2, 2016)

Over the past four decades (did I really write that?) I have spent a lot of time on the question of endorsing candidates.

Mark Charles: Presidential candidates haven't learned from our genocidal past (May 2, 2016)

'Off the reservation' is a term deeply rooted in the implicit racial bias of the United States of America

Indian Health Service reaches agreements for troubled facilities (May 2, 2016)

The Rosebud and Pine Ridge hospitals can continue to bill for Medicaid and Medicare services while improvements are being made.

Clara Caufield: Living in a state of emergency on my reservation (May 2, 2016)

The reservation has gone from being undermanned by Bureau of Indian Affairs officers to being swarmed by law enforcement officers of all persuasions

Native Sun News: Oglala Sioux family confronts man blamed for loved one's death (May 2, 2016)

Anthony Waters walked away from the podium glaring at the defendant who sat looking down at the table with legs shaking.

Peter d'Errico: Suicides are outcome of intergenerational trauma (May 2, 2016)

Attawapiskat and other Native communities have but one way forward: to address each other and challenge the surrounding world at a depth that arises from the soul and meets history, with an aim to recover the balance between spiritual and temporal that allows humans to live free lives.

Ruth Hopkins: Tell indigenous youth that their lives really matter (May 2, 2016)

They are more precious than diamonds. They are love personified. They are proof of our ancestor's victory over tyranny and death.