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 ...

Taylor Gunhammer, of NDN Collective, speaks in September 2025 during a meeting at the Rapid City Public Library about mining and exploratory drilling in the Black Hills. (Photo by Seth Tupper/South ...

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

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 ...

The Choctaw Nation announced last week the purchase of a former Big Lots distribution facility and adjoining land in Durant, which had been speculated to be a potential detention center site for ...

Military planes fly over Tarague Beach and Andersen Air Force Base as part of a multinational exercise. (Stocktrek Images via Getty Images via Grist) The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case ...

RAPID CITY, South Dakota – The Pennington County State’s Attorney’s office has dropped all charges against NDN Collective founder Nick Tilsen. Tilsen, Oglala Lakota, was charged with aggravated ...

While the scoreboard favored the top seeded Marian Knights on Friday night, for the Haskell Indian Nations University Lady Indians, the final buzzer signified the end of a season defined by grit, ...

It’s 60-below-zero on Feb. 11 in Eagle Village, Alaska, and Jody Potts-Joseph is sewing a pair of mukluks for Jessie Holmes, a good friend and co-competitor in the 2026 Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race.

Marique Moss is an Afro-Indigenous educator and enrolled member of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nation, with Dakota roots in Saskatchewan. She holds degrees in Native American Studies and ...

Native nations have stepped up to provide their tribal citizens with proper documentation through tribal ID pop-ups with the escalating immigration raids and more reports of Native people being ...