Native leaders say a Congressional proposal to increase credit hour requirements and reduce the maximum amounts of Pell Grants could disproportionately affect Native students ...

A recent tribal-state compact between Minnesota and the White Earth Nation laid out guidelines necessary for the tribe to operate cannabis businesses outside the reservation ...

“I’ve not seen another movie that has our language, like, spoken correctly,” said Cynthia Massey, a cultural consultant for “Sinners.” ...

The Rapid City Indian School was created by the federal government to assimilate Native children during the larger federal ...

ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate ...

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 ...

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Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X FLAGSTAFF, Arizona — The group of Navajo speakers gathered at the Coconino County Elections Center ...

When Indigenous community organizer Jade Begay, Tesuque Pueblo and Diné, found out that Donald Trump had won the election in November 2016, she was en route to Standing Rock from New Mexico to protest ...

*Part one of this series detailed the investigation of the disappearance of Wilma Acosta, an unenrolled Pascua Yaqui woman who went missing in Portland in November. Portland police announced Acosta ...

Native authors may finally be here to stay. Indigenous peoples have revered the power of stories since time immemorial, traditionally keeping their cultures and histories alive through story. But ...

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 ...