Tribal members hoping to purchase a home on tribal land often face a gauntlet of red tape, delays and complicated legal arrangements.
Our mission as tribal government leaders is always to protect our sovereignty and advance issues critical to our people.
True peace will come about when Native residential school children, now buried, arise and are returned to the embrace of their ancestors in their home territories.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a legislative hearing on October 6, 2021.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is getting back to work with a hearing on tribal water rights settlements that are being supported by the Biden administration.
“There are probably few American Indians that haven’t been touched by MMIW,” said Patricia Hibbeler, chief executive officer for the Phoenix Indian Center.
The opioid crisis affected every facet of Cherokee society, including our economy, our health system, our schools and our families.
The U.S. Senate voted 50-45 to approve the nomination of Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management.
The nation’s highest court is running into snags that have plagued other institutions grappling with the ongoing health crisis.
A prominent Republican tried to derail the nomination of Bob Anderson to serve as the Solicitor at the Department of the Interior.
The loss of an Indigenous woman’s life is all too familiar in our communities.
Violence against Indigenous women is preventable and will end when Indian Nations have the full authority of self-government.
Pearline Kirk, the former controller for the Navajo Nation, is accused of using her position to defraud the tribe out of $3 million in COVID-19 funds.
The Cherokee Nation announced a $75 million settlement in a lawsuit filed against opioid manufacturers.
Land stewardship is at the core of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, also known as ANCSA.
“How are non-Native people playing on our land? Are they being respectful?” asks Adesbah Foguth, a tribal park ranger.
Alaska Native corporations are figuring out how to distribute the funds more than a year after the CARES Act lawsuit started.
Today we continue the fight for our rights, until everyone in Indian Country can freely cast their ballot.
This year marks the 50th Anniversary of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, also known as ANCSA.
“Water is a sacred resource, and water rights are crucial to ensuring the health, safety and empowerment of Tribal communities,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
With early morning fanfare, a brand new day dawned in Arizona sports history with the first full day of legalized sports betting.
A Lakota mother is trying to understand why a school secretary cut her two little girls’ hair without her consent. And then, days later, did it again.
Long considered by legal experts as the gold standard of adoption law, the Indian Child Welfare Act faces its most significant legal challenge yet.
“There was a time, not long ago, where Indigenous people were supposed to be terminated,” said attorney Victoria Holland.
Fences, cameras and barricades are back up around the U.S. Capitol as supporters of the violent January 6 insurrection return to the nation’s capital for a so-called rally.
The United States faces an October deadline to respond to concerns about human rights abuses of Native people who are resisting the Line 3 pipeline on Ojibwe treaty territory.
Although legalized sports gambling is set to begin this week in Arizona, not everyone is happy.
Australia is paying out close to $379 million directly to Indigenous peoples who suffered from the government’s forced removal of children from families.
“Racism and prejudice towards tribes in our states is alive and well,” said a former federal prosecutor.
Six tribes from all regions of the country have secured victory against a Trump-era rule that rolled back protections for water.
A proposed change in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act would give tribes added muscle to hold museums accountable for the ancestors they continue to keep in their collections.
Employees of the Oglala Sioux Tribe’s Ambulance Service are raising concerns about ‘abhorrent’ working conditions.
About a hundred people gathered to grieve the loss of Brendon Galbreath, a citizen of the Blackfeet Nation who died in an encounter with police.
The first time Ozzy Watchman took his daughter, Navajo Nation police never responded to the family’s call for help, relatives said.
The Muscogee Nation has repeatedly invited the Governor of Oklahoma to join forces and partner with us, but he refuses.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral arguments in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. United States, a treaty rights case, on March 18, 2021.
Every day that Christine Benally looks out of the window of her home, she’s reminded of how the federal government failed to protect her child.
“They’re just little victims everywhere,” a child abuse specialist on the Navajo Nation said.
An abandoned gold mine continues to cause heartaches for the Fort Belknap Indian Community.
The increased demands of the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated long-standing issues within the Navajo Nation’s police department.
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