Big Chief Monk Boudreaux (center) leads his Mardi Gras Indian tribe, the Golden Eagles, on Super Sunday. Courtesy of the New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian Council When Mardi Gras Indians parade down the ...

Johnny Lehi Jr., president of the San Juan Southern Paiutes, has had to consider how to provide for the tribe’s residents after it lost a slot machine deal worth up to $7 million yearly. Credit...Amir ...

Machine generated contents note: -- INTRODUCTION: John Echohawk, Executive Director, Native American Rights Fund -- Preface -- Map: Indian Reservations and Communities in the United States -- I. A ...

The United Indians of All Tribes Foundation (UIATF) proudly announces the successful conclusion of its 36th Annual Seafair Indian Days Powwow, held July 18–20, 2025, at the iconic Daybreak Star Indian ...

Tribal governments are heavily dependent on federal funding because of treaties guaranteeing basic services. By Mitch Smith On the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota, the contingency ...

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 ...

This is an updated version of a story first published on March 31, 2024. The original video can be viewed here. The horse has played a central role in the history and mythology of many Native American ...

In the last year, the Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation has worked to protect its cultural sites from more than 850 land development projects around the Los Angeles Basin, thanks to a ...

Throughout its history, the US has adopted policies that threatened to wipe out Native American tribes and their cultures – or as one Army officer put it, “kill the Indian in him, and save the man.” A ...

For centuries the Indigenous people of the United States have been the original stewards of the environment. But Indigenous communities are at a crossroads. This comes at a moment where many Indian ...

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

To outsiders, India seems like a homogeneous monolith. Proof? Ask Indians how many times they have been questioned, "Do you speak Indian?" Far from this myth, India is home to hundreds of languages, ...