Almost 200 years ago, the Treaty of New Echota between Cherokee Nation and the United States government was signed.
The Department of the Interior hosts the White House Tribal Nations Summit on November 30, 2022.
The descendants of Chief Spotted Elk, a Lakota leader who was murdered at Wounded Knee in 1890, are speaking out.
A case before the United States Supreme Court could resume the genocide of tribal nations.
The Cherokee Nation is getting closer to fulfilling a promise made by treaty nearly two centuries ago.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is getting back to work after a lengthy absence.
The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments in Haaland v. Brackeen, a closely-watched Indian Child Welfare Act case, on November 9, 2022.
Tribal leaders speak at a #StopColonizers rally on the steps of the U.S. Supreme Court on November 9, 2022.
The decision in Haaland v. Brackeen will be a major force in the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act and the scope of tribal sovereignty.
The Indian Child Welfare Act set out to fix generations of harm to Native kids. The U.S. Supreme Court could soon toss it aside.
Indian Country will be out in force as the nation’s highest court weighs the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
So what’s going on in Oklahoma, once known as Indian Territory?
The nation’s highest court is about to hear one of the biggest cases in Indian Country’s history and already some troubling signs are emerging.
The Supreme Court is an anachronistic body of elderly politicians, who can never be expected to do justice by Native Sovereign Nations.
Republican Arizona Corporation Commission candidate Nick Myers claims financial assistance to tribal nations is “foreign aid.” PolitiFact checks the facts.
An 1855 treaty with the U.S. government ensured one of the Yakama Nation’s most important sites would remain part of its homelands.
Native American Church practitioners are working to secure environmental protections for the plant that is losing habitat to development, land use policies, and climate change.
A new documentary tackles a topic that continues to generate controversy. Why are so many people claiming to be Indian?
Markwayne Mullin is poised to make history as the first tribal citizen in the U.S. Senate in nearly two decades but not all Native voters are happy.
Roselyn Tso delivers remarks after being sworn in as the new director of the Indian Health Service.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland provides an update at the 39th Annual National Tribal Health Conference.
The Biden administration says it wants to work with tribes to co-manage federal land that is also sacred or culturally important.
For the first time in nearly two years, the Indian Health Service has a permanent leader.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds an oversight hearing entitled “Examining Oklahoma v. Castro-Huerta: The Implications of the Supreme Court’s Ruling on Tribal Sovereignty.”
A decision from the nation’s highest court opens tribal lands to state jurisdiction — even though tribes have not consented to the imposition.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a hearing to examine the impacts of the U.S. Supreme Court on tribal sovereignty.
Just as courts are working through jurisdictional boundaries for the other tribes, the Osage Nation is facing an erosion of its sovereignty.
It’s been a banner week for Native women trailblazers at all levels of U.S. government.
The Biden administration is hosting two listening sessions to hear from tribes about a controversial U.S. Supreme Court decision.
“We are in a critical time where, once again, our sovereignty is being threatened,” National Congress of American Indians President Fawn Sharp said in announcing the 2022 Sovereignty Run.
The largest inter-tribal advocacy organization in the United States is forging ahead with a new executive as tribes continue to confront challenges to their sovereignty.
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The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States meets for a legislative hearing on September 14, 2022.
Tribal nations must be prepared to combat this judicial onslaught—and any more to come—from the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative anti-Native agenda.
The fight to protect a sacred site from development is once again back in court as defenders of Oak Flat try to stop a huge copper mine on Apache territory.
Few dispute that Indian boarding schools led to more than a century of abuse, systematically seizing Indigenous land, separating children from their families, destroying communities and working to erase tribal languages, religions, cultures and economies.
Alan Parker, a citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribe, had a profound impact on law and policy in Indian Country.
Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is back in the news but it’s not because of his campaign for public office.
NAGPRA has been on the books for 30 years but it’s been slow work to return ancestors and cultural property into the care of tribes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announces the release of its National Tribal Strategy.
A long-running political, legal and environmental dispute over a copper mine on sacred Apache land in Arizona shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
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