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

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 ...

A National Indian Child Welfare Association research project concluding in June 2025 finds tribes have redefined and tailored U.S laws governing foster care cases to match the priorities of their ...

The sunlight bounces off the glassy surface of Sitka Sound as community herring fish egg harvesters navigate the waters with boats loaded with hemlock branches for the fish to lay eggs on. Surrounded ...

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 ...

Alaska Native youth are living through a pivotal time, bearing witness to the dramatic impacts of climate change that have occurred during their lifetimes: rapidly melting permafrost, warming oceans ...

Two Martin County foster parents are getting another audience in front of the Minnesota Supreme Court Tuesday, after arguing last fall that a nearly 50-year-old law that prevented them from adopting ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X On March 18, the Nooksack Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Nooksack Indian Housing Authority ...

LAC DU FLAMBEAU RESERVATION —The billboard glows ghostly white in the moonlight. But the outlines of Suzy Poupart’s face are still visible, gazing stubbornly out at the world, demanding justice for ...

This story was produced by Grist and co-published with ICT. Mining — whether for fossil fuels or, increasingly, the critical minerals in high demand today — has a long history of perpetuating violence ...

At 17 years old, Jeff Mitchell couldn’t have known that an evening of deer hunting would change his life — and the history of the Klamath River — forever. Over Thanksgiving week in 1974, Mitchell and ...

Last June, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which operates a series of dams in Oregon’s Willamette River Basin, missed a deadline set by Congress to produce a report on how the dams are affecting ...