Arizona authorities say a tribal police officer was fatally shot during a traffic stop on a reservation and the suspect, who stole the officer's vehicle, later died in a shootout that left another officer wounded

New England communities are providing free beach access to Native Americans.

Native American students in southern Utah donned beaded caps and eagle feathers at high school graduations this week, months after the state passed a law enshrining their right to wear tribal regalia at the ceremonies

More than 500 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian children died in federal Indigenous boarding schools across the country, a report finds.

Enoch Kelly Haney, a Native American artist, Seminole Nation chief and Oklahoma state lawmaker, has died at age 81

After being disenrolled from the Nooksack tribe in 2016 after a former tribal chair questioned their ancestral lineage, the Rabang family fights to preserve their family history.

The Maine Senate has advanced a historic proposal to restore tribes’ sovereignty

The Maine Legislature has taken the first vote in giving the state’s tribes the same rights enjoyed by federally recognized tribes across the country

“I want the era where tribes have been on the back burner to be over."

Sacred land in Virginia will be returned to the Rappahannock Tribe. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will be in attendance at the celebration.

Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has signed into law a bill that creates a first-in-the-nation statewide alert system for missing Indigenous people

Hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children over the span of 150 years were taken from their families and made to live in U.S. boarding schools. Some never came home.

Indigenous leaders expect nothing less than a public apology from Pope Francis.

The remains of 20 Native Americans massacred in Northern California in 1860 have been returned to their tribe

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says it plans to reconsider a decision made under the Trump administration that allowed the state to regulate environmental issues in Indian Country

The Red Cloud Indian School in South Dakota has undertaken a reckoning with its troubled past

Members of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe are working to address animal neglect.

Earlier ruling would block the tribe’s deal with the state to expand gambling.

The president also announced new initiatives to protect tribal lands at the tribal nations summit.

A Navajo photographer and his daughters took the "jingle dress" dance on a journey across the country to bring spiritual healing and bring attention to indigenous issues.

President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden are set to host the first tribal nations summit since 2016

Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a federally operated boarding school in Nebraska

The ban includes in the tribe’s casinos.

The land where the Rhode Island Narragansett tribe survived near-annihilation in a battle with English colonists in 1675 has been transferred to the tribe

"I run because my ancestors gave me this ability," Haaland wrote.

Two salmon species have all but disappeared from Alaska's Yukon River this year.

Fred Dakota opened a garage casino in Michigan in the 1980s.

Efforts to silence a century-old siren that blares every night in Minden, Nevada, are sparking debates over how to confront the region's history of racism and violence

The government-run school was meant to assimilate them into white culture.

A 2015 report said the schools were a component of "cultural genocide."

To some, the changes will make voting more difficult than it already is.

An election 50 years ago ushered in new era for U.S. tribes.

Case will determine who's eligible for $530 million in virus relief funding.

More than 3 million children in the U.S. had a disability in 2019.

As Deb Haaland creates a unit to investigate missing and murdered Native Americans, a look at why it's necessary.

A strong sense of community and taking care of one another has come to the aid.

Leaders of other tribes cite a lack of a formal standard for tribal recognition.

Tribe leaders say pandemic poses more risk to tribes without federal recognition

They're trying to to stop the sale of the National Archives building in Seattle.

Few Native American tribes have signed up to participate in clinical trials.

The changing names of the Cleveland Indians and the Washington Redskins is a win for Native Americans, but there's still much more to be done, leaders say.

Across the nation, Native American tribes work to protect their oldest members.

Haaland would be the first Native American to serve in the Cabinet if confirmed.

The Navajo Nation vice president is part of a vocal minority backing Trump.

Nation member was the latest soldier from the Army post in Texas to die.

Tribes wrestle with competing needs, restrictive laws and inadequate staffing.

They could legalize medical, recreational marijuana at Pine Ridge Reservation.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt, a Cherokee Nation citizen, was elected in 2018.

No one knows how many Native Americans are missing because cases go unreported.

It's inspired efforts to stop other contentious projects across the state.