Melanie Henshaw A cascade of actions from the Trump administration represents a “grave threat” to health care, social, ...
Trump’s cuts also have targeted schools serving tribal members. Education, like health care, is part of the federal government’s legal trust responsibility to Native people. The federal Bureau of ...
In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court rejected Oklahoma's attempt to prosecute crimes committed on a reservation by ...
That's how long the Lumbee have been denied federal recognition. Now, President Donald Trump is pushing for that to change.
The justices struggled at the hearing to find room to step into Congress' shoes and waive a tribe's sovereign immunity from a ...
The Makah Tribe has formally requested permission to resume its traditional whale hunt this July. A permit application is out ...
The chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation is urging the U.S. Department of Defense and other ...
The 21st annual State of the Tribes Address took place at the State Capitol on Tuesday, highlighting the ongoing work by, and ...
“The state vigorously objected to our recognition and fought it successfully in Washington ... doubt in the Bureau of Indian Affairs that we were a Native American tribe and should be recognized ...
Henceforth, the tribe, not the state, would have jurisdiction over Indian crimes on Indian lands ... a time known as the Termination Era, because Washington explicitly aimed to assimilate tribal ...