The Hopi Tribal Council voted to adopt a new criminal code on August 28, thereby scrapping a 1970s version that all but failed to punish sex crimes and limited tribal prosecutors to one-year terms, ...

State trust lands generate millions of dollars for carceral facilities and programs every year, largely from extractive industries like oil and gas drilling ...

President Donald Trump has ordered the former North Dakota governor, who has a long history working with tribes in his state, to increase oil production ...

Navajo communities along the 174-mile stretch of the uranium haul route on Diné lands say the tribe and mining company are ...

Art certainly imitated life for the Fire Kinship: Southern California Native Ecology and Art exhibit at The Fowler Museum at UCLA. Originally slated to open mid-January, fires tore through Los Angeles ...

Elk are being reintroduced by the Ho-Chunk Nation into Wisconsin, where the animals roamed abundantly until being driven out in the 1800s. Elk once roamed Wisconsin, a native species. But they were ...

Attawapiskat First Nation issues emergency declaration after 11 residents attempt suicide in one day; 101 have done so since September 2015. The Northern Ontario First Nation of Attawapiskat declared ...

Roseau River Anishinabe First Nation is finally compensated with $80 million for the 1903 Surrender, in which the Canadian government forced the band to give up 12 sections, or 60 percent, of its ...

A story about Angel Goodrich, the Kansas Jayhawks star point guard who was recently drafted into the WNBA, only the second Native American to do so. When I was little, my mom and dad were stationed at ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he would hire a Native American to serve in his central office if confirmed as the nation's top health leader ...

Many communities along the haul route, which passes through towns in Arizona, the Hopi Nation, the Navajo Nation, Utah and ...

A December report from the Northwest Power and Conservation Council shows a rolling 10-year average return of 2.3 million ...