The federal government should be allowed to fire workers with a criminal past in order to protect Indian children from abuse, the Bush administration argues in court papers....

A divided federal appeals court threw out criminal charges against a Montana juvenile on Friday, focusing on a century-old law that represented one of the first intrusions on tribal sovereignty....

Indian Country starts to respond to trust fund reorganization, Oklahoma tribes fight federal gaming regulators, Judge considers fate of Kennewick Man, and Seneca Nation land claim tossed....

Yucca Mountain is designed to hold up to 77,000 tons of nuclear waste but environmentalists say the Nevada site still won't solve the nation's problems....

The Buena Vista Me-Wuk Tribe of California was terminated in 1958 and restored in 1983 after a lawsuit was filed....

Hundreds of celebrities, politicians and well-wishers helped the Mohegan Tribe of Connecticut celebrate the completion of a $1.1 billion casino expansion....

"Somewhere, someplace, perhaps over the course of time, journalist and Pulitzer-winning novelist Edna Ferber undoubtedly wrote stories and books where she drew upon "indignation, passionate remonstrance, a sense of injustice..." As a Native person, the same passions often fuel my pen....

The museum of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation of Connecticut has spent several years reconstructing an historic fort used by tribal ancestors....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is using a computer database to help complete work on a federal recognition petition....

The Alaska Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to a curfew in the city of Anchorage....

The Seneca Nation of New York is planning an appeal of a federal judge's ruling on its claim to Grand Island....

A high-stakes political and environmental battle has delayed a proposed Missouri River management plan....

South Dakota state law makes it a felony to knowingly disturb burial grounds but the protections haven't always applied to tribal sites, according to tribes....

Democrats on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee plan to subpoena the Bush administration unless it turns over information related to a clean air program....

The first premier of Nunavut, the Inuit territory in Canada, visited Alaska this month to meet with Native leaders....

A $50,000 project backed by the National Historic Preservation Fund is helping the Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho preserve a cultural tradition....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is set to announce its decision on the federal recognition of two Pequot tribes in Connecticut....

Tribal Casinos Offer Competitive Wages Tribal leaders of the Minnesota Indian Gaming Association are disappointed by your May 7 story "Burgeoning Indian Casinos Get Ahead in Part by Dodging Labor Regulations." We view this as an effort to paint the Viejas Band, and indirectly all tribal casinos, as irresponsible and heartless employers using sovereignty as a convenient means of dodging their obligations to employees and customers. Nationally, most tribal casinos are not unionized, but the vast majority offer wages and benefits that equal or surpass those provided in union shops in the gaming industry....

The Wall Street Journal in an editorial today calls the Bureau of Indian Affairs a "mecca for political manipulation," and says Congressional candidate Jeff Benedict of Connecticut is the man to fix the troubled agency....

The Miccosukee Tribe of Florida is questioning a $7.8 billion plan to restore their homeland, the Everglades....

Two large fires burning in Arizona merged on Sunday to form a 300,000-acre blaze, the largest in state history....

The Bureau of Indian Affairs today recognized the Eastern Pequot Tribe as the composite of two Connecticut tribes....

The Supreme Court today refused to allow an Arizona tribe to be sued by a non-Indian couple....

The Red Cliff Band of Ojibwe in Minnesota will sign a friendship treaty with Australian Aborigines....