The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country ...

The Pembroke-based Lumbee tribe was federally recognized by Congress in December after a nearly 140-year fight. Here's what's ...

Drum group Warpaint Singers performs a song following a treaty signing in front of the Statehouse steps Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette) COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s Native ...

There are many misconceptions about tax payment rules for Native Americans. The relationship between Native American tribes, tribal sovereignty and taxation is quite complex. On one hand, the unique ...

The South Sierra Miwuk Nation has reattained nearly 900 acres bordering Yosemite National Park — 175 years after the tribe ...

As fentanyl addiction and overdose deaths ravage Native American communities, some tribal leaders want Native law enforcement to take drug enforcement more into their own hands. "We can't wait anymore ...

Sins are powerful – and for many – lucrative. Native American Tribes understand their economic strength For many Native American tribes, economic self-sufficiency has long been a priority. In the ...

As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are ...

The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State, by Donald L. Fixico, University of Oklahoma Press, 206 pages, $34.95 In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court ...

For many Native American tribes, economic self-sufficiency has long been a priority. In the absence of traditional revenue streams, tribal governments have explored and embraced industries that ...

When New York State claimed a ‘permanent easement’ across the Nation’s Westwoods land, it could not do so, under federal law, ...