The Cowlitz Indian Tribe announced Friday it’s the official owner of Columbia River Mental Health Services’ NorthStar Clinic, settling negotiations that began last year after the nonprofit faced finan ...

As Pacific Gas and Electric Co., seeks to decommission its Potter Valley hydroelectric project, the Round Valley tribal ...

GUDUTA, India (AP) — Tribal groups have held protests in support of giving Sarna Dharma official religion status ahead of the upcoming national census. GUDUTA, India (AP) — The ritual began with a ...

The Mattaponi Indian Tribe on Thursday formally submitted a petition for federal acknowledgment as an Indian Tribe with a government-to-government relationship with the United States. The petition was ...

More than 18,000 children were shipped off to faraway schools in the late 19th and 20th centuries. Nearly 900 known deaths occurred in the 417 federal-run institutions, along with uncounted cases of ...

A tribes woman prays during a sit-in demonstration rally to demand of recognizing Sarna Dharma as a religion in Ranchi, capital of the eastern Indian state of Jharkhand, Oct. 18, 2022. Credit: AP ...

The Colorado River Indian Tribes now have the ability to lease their water rights off-reservation, a move that could ease pressures on communities facing the effects of climate change through drought.

A controversial restructuring of Indian education programs is moving forward at the national level despite widespread opposition from tribes and educators.

The Coquille Indian Tribe has been trying to open a new casino in Medford for over 10 years. After hitting bumps along the way — including a hard ‘no’ from the feds in 2020 — the project is again ...

The Virginia legislature plans to address the impact of a racist 1920s policy that for decades prohibited Native American children from pursuing education beyond 7th or 8th grade.

Denotified, nomadic, and semi-nomadic tribes demand a separate column in the 2027 Census for accurate representation and ...

Tribes women dressed up in colorful saris perform indigenous folk dance as they follow worshippers to a sacred grove believed to be the home of the village goddess, in village Guduta, in the eastern ...