Jodi Rave: Powwow sends dancers home without money (April 19, 2010)

"Hundreds of dancers showed up at the 2010 Kyi-Yo Powwow at the University of Montana with hopes of winning big prize money — but many...

Wells Fargo donates $50K to help tribes in South Dakota (April 19, 2010)

Wells Fargo is donating $50,000 to help two South Dakota tribes recover from severe winter storms. The Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and the Standing Rock...

Blackfeet woman first to finish college's ROTC program (April 19, 2010)

Heather Parsons, a member of the Blackfeet Nation, is the first Native American to complete the ROTC program at Montana State University. Parsons signed...

Ho-Chunk Nation agrees to pay counties for trust lands (April 19, 2010)

The Ho-Chunk Nation has agreed to pay counties in Wisconsin $1,000 per every acre of trust land. The tribe has trust land in 12 counties....

Mark Trahant: IHCIA brings hope for urban Indian health (April 19, 2010)

"American Indian Health and Family Services helps the 57,000 Native Americans living in the greater Detroit area. Services are delivered at an old church and...

Tulalip Tribes leader retires after four decades on board (April 19, 2010)

After 44 years on the board of the Tulalip Tribes of Washington, Stan Jones decided not to seek re-election this year. “This is the...

Column: Time for 'Fighting Sioux' supporters to move on (April 19, 2010)

"Spleens were vented overtime last week when the Board of Higher Education voted to drop the Fighting Sioux logo at UND. The rage was instantaneous....

Letter: Native Americans still facing racism in Oklahoma (April 19, 2010)

"In this day and age, some would want us to believe that racism is a thing of the past. As a Native American, I know...

Editorial: Navajo energy project doomed from the start (April 19, 2010)

"It seemed like it was doomed from the start. In 2006, early work at the planned site of the coal-fired Desert Rock Power Plant brought...

People disenrolled from Robinson Rancheria plan appeal (April 19, 2010)

A group of people who were disenrolled from the Robinson Rancheria of Pomo Indians of California will continue to fight the decision. In December 2008,...

Duwamish Chair: Tribe struggles for federal recognition (April 19, 2010)

"Our tribe is the Duwamish Nation, indigenous people of Seattle, Wash., who signed the Point Elliott Treaty in 1855, ceded 54,000 acres, was promised a...

Supreme Court declines Dakota descendants trust case (April 19, 2010)

The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a trust management case involving Dakota descendants who said they were promised land in the late 1800s....

Supreme Court accepts Tohono O'odham trust law case (April 19, 2010)

The U.S. Supreme Court today agreed to hear a trust law case involving the Tohono O’odham Nation of Arizona. The tribe filed a historical accounting...

Charges laid for teen's death on Wind River Reservation (April 19, 2010)

Two men have been charged in connection with the death of a 13-year-old girl on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. Kyeren Tillman, 19, has...

First Nation to evict 12 over substance abuse problems (April 19, 2010)

The Ahousaht First Nation of British Columbia plans to evict 12 people who have refused to seek treatment for drug and alcohol problems. In March,...

Opinion: Economic recovery for America's tribal nations (April 19, 2010)

"Today, as president of the United States, you have a historic opportunity to mark a path of economic recovery for American Indian nations. We have...

Editorial: Lumbee leaders gambling with recognition bid (April 19, 2010)

"It appears that Lumbee leaders have decided it's acceptable to bet a big piece of the tribe's net worth on one game of chance. It's...

Tim Giago: Mount Rushmore loses a man of great vision (April 19, 2010)

Gerard Baker, a member of the Mandan/Hidatsa Tribe of the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, is a man of vision. And yet he is...

Senate Indian Affairs Committee hearing on energy bill (April 19, 2010)

The Senate Indian Affairs Committee holds a hearing this Thursday to discuss an Indian energy bill. Sen. Dorgan (D-North Dakota), the chairman of the committee,...

Opinion: Keeping the Dena'ina language going in Alaska (April 19, 2010)

"Dena'ina elder Sasha Lindgren went to the board in Room 158 at Kenai Peninsula College recently and wrote: bee bop a lula sh'a'a qelan (she's...

House Resources Committee to take up Pueblo land bill (April 19, 2010)

The House Natural Resources Committee holds a hearing this Wednesday on three bills. One of the bills is H.R.4445, the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Clarification...