Ernest L. "Ernie" Stevens Jr., Oneida Nation of Wisconsin and chairman of the Indian Gaming Association board, speaks with Dr. Ramona Klein at the National Day of Remembrance event hosted by the ...

The Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska is much closer to bringing Samuel Gilbert and Edward Hensley home. The tribe filed a federal lawsuit in 2024 against the U.S. Army demanding the return of the two boys, ...

The Trump administration has proposed cutting all federal funding for tribal colleges and universities, the second time in two years it has sought major funding cuts for the institutions. In its ...

U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids has officially filed for reelection to Kansas’ 3rd Congressional District, she said in a May 11 campaign press release. Davids, Ho-Chunk, is the longest-serving Indigenous ...

The U.S. Bureau of Land Management on May 11, 2026, officially rescinded a federal rule requiring officials to consider conservation in land management decisions in areas such as the Valley of Fires ...

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 ...

Comparing the histories of Indian residential schools in Canada with Indian boarding schools in the U.S. is almost like comparing apples with oranges. A true comparison is nearly impossible since so ...

FORT SNELLING, Minnesota – Last week, Native activists established a prayer camp near the site of a former internment camp for Dakota people. The camp was established in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, just ...

The ceremony was modest, with a handful of tribal leaders and a few citizens looking on as Catholic nuns signed over about two acres of land to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, land ...

The wave of federal immigration agents swarming the Minneapolis area might be unprecedented in law enforcement history, but the response in the Indigenous community is not. Half a century ago, the ...

At least five Native American men have been detained and an unknown number questioned by immigration officers across the Minneapolis area in the midst of what a top official called the “largest ...

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