Growing up in Zuni Pueblo in northwest New Mexico, Valarie Bellson remembers walking to the tribe’s public library when she needed a place to hang out. Decades later, the staff helped her figure out ...

MILWAUKEE, Wisc. – In just 37 years, since the 1988 passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act, the Native casino industry has grown to generate over $40 billion annually for tribes across the United ...

The lawsuit says the Forest Service improperly used a process known as a “categorical exclusion” to bypass environmental and cultural reviews.

Youth at Parrot Creek in rural Oregon City cut and collect fallen Hawthorn and blackberry branches, both invasive species, to create piles that fire experts will conduct a prescribed burn on at a ...

Oil pipelines stretch across the landscape outside Nuiqsut, Alaska, where ConocoPhillips operates the Alpine Field, in May 2019. (Bonnie Jo Mount / The Washington Post via Getty Images via Grist) In ...

U.S. Rep. Gabe Vasquez. D-New Mexico, on Wednesday gathered with Isleta Pueblo leaders at the Pueblo’s Head Start center to decry online prediction markets that he said are not only illegal and ...

Starting July 1, a new population of prospective students will be eligible for American Indian tuition waivers in Montana — a shift that could make college more affordable for thousands of people and ...

Nuchi Nashoba is the president of the Choctaw Code Talkers Association and great granddaughter of Choctaw Code Talker Ben Carterby. Nashoba said it was a full-circle moment to see the code talkers ...

David Fadden is not blind to hard truths. “You can’t help but become angry about the injustices and land theft and all the wrong steps that occurred in this country towards Indigenous people,” he said ...

Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans’ disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law ...

This is the first installment in a three-part ICT series examining new rules under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Changes to the Native American Graves Protection and ...

The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo. In fact, Omeasoo’s comfort level and lack of squeamishness convinced her to pursue studies in ...