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.
Law enforcement in New Mexico have developed a list of roughly 200 names to help track and raise awareness of Indigenous people who go missing.
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.
Many Native hunters have mastered big game hunting, providing for themselves and their families.
Indian Country will be out in force as the nation’s highest court weighs the future of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
A federal judge set new limits on groups watching ballot drop boxes, ordering them to stop confronting and filming voters, to stop carrying weapons near the boxes and to correct voting misinformation on their social media.
So what’s going on in Oklahoma, once known as Indian Territory?
The Łutsël K’é Dene First Nation has protected Thaidene Nëné under their own law since time immemorial.
Some places are trying to make it easier to vote. But intimidation tactics are sprouting up.
Citizenship is one of the keystones of sovereignty for every tribe.
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.
Indigenous people in Mexico are much more likely to face poverty, human rights abuses, and discrimination than the rest of the country’s population.
Tribal courts are asserting their ability to mete out justice and work toward healing.
Republican Arizona Corporation Commission candidate Nick Myers claims financial assistance to tribal nations is “foreign aid.” PolitiFact checks the facts.
It was long common practice for archaeologists — both professional and amateur — to plunder Native burial sites.
A lawsuit against the National Congress of American Indians is finally getting its first hearing, some six months after it was filed.
A business in South Dakota that banned Native patrons from the premises is being sued by the United States government for racial discrimination.
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A number of tribes remain on the waiting list for federal recognition.
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.
Tribal leaders urged lawmakers to pass a package of bills that would protect cultural and sacred sites on public lands.
Tribal nations and Native voters are part of a coalition that went to court to block three election laws.
Native prisoners at the Washington State Penitentiary hosted their first powwow in three years, a 50-year tradition temporarily halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
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.
A lawsuit filed by the former chief executive officer of the National Congress of American Indians will proceed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
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.
Cherokee Nation has the power and the responsibility to protect all Cherokees and ensure justice is served on our reservation.
The Oneida Nation is the latest in Indian Country to join the cannabis industry.
Tribal leaders and friends are paying tributes to Rob Rosette, a noted Indian law practitioner.
Just as courts are working through jurisdictional boundaries for the other tribes, the Osage Nation is facing an erosion of its sovereignty.
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