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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Firearm-related deaths among children and teenagers in the United States have risen sharply in recent years, increasing by 50 percent since 2019. In 2023, firearms remained the leading cause of death ...

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 ...

Tribes across the U.S. are responding to reports of Indigenous people being racially profiled, stopped, questioned and mistakenly detained by federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants as part ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X With nature comes change. It’s seen in migrating birds, heard in frog songs, smelled between ...