WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Wednesday sided with Michigan in ruling that the state’s lawsuit seeking to shut down a section of an aging pipeline beneath a Great Lakes channel will stay in state ...

Every morning at the crack of dawn, Candi Brings Plenty would climb up a small hill near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, to pray and post news directly from the camps of water protectors gathered on the ...

New data from the Federal Bureau of Investigations released on May 5 showcases declining rates of missing American Indian and Alaska Native people in 2025. The data’s release falls on the National Day ...

MACAPA, Brazil (AP) — Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest has long brought deforestation that threatens the people who live there. The same roadwork, however, has also allowed archaeologists to get ...

Mel Tonasket, former chairman of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, seen during an interview on TVW’s “Inside Olympia.” (Photo by Paul Taylor/TVW) Mel Tonasket says the modern ...

This story is part of ICT’s series on the 10th anniversary of the Standing Rock movement. Water protectors came from far and wide. It was 2016 and the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline just ...

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche signs an order downgrading medical marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON – This won’t be an easy conversation: Can tribal nations love mining? Or at least accept mining as a necessary step in the creation of a clean economy? And can governments and international ...

James Nells, Navajo, a U.S. combat veteran, carries an eagle staff as part of the color guard presentation beginning the "Road to Healing" hearing at Riverside Indian boarding school in Anadarko, ...