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 ...

“I’ve not seen another movie that has our language, like, spoken correctly,” said Cynthia Massey, a cultural consultant for “Sinners.” ...

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

ProPublica found that Congress was underfunding tribal colleges by a quarter-billion dollars per year. Rather than fixing the problem, proposed federal funding cuts unveiled this week would devastate ...

Joss voiced John Redcorn in “King of the Hill,” and was set to appear in the show’s reboot this fall but the White Mountain Apache and Comanche actor was killed Sunday, June 1 in a shooting in San ...

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 ...

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 ...

*Part one of this series detailed the investigation of the disappearance of Wilma Acosta, an unenrolled Pascua Yaqui woman who went missing in Portland in November. Portland police announced Acosta ...

Native authors may finally be here to stay. Indigenous peoples have revered the power of stories since time immemorial, traditionally keeping their cultures and histories alive through story. But ...

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 ...

From Norma Aldredge’s kitchen table, you can hear the cooing of her three-month-old granddaughter and the crying of another grandchild, just 6 months old, in the next room. Two more of Aldredge’s ...

This story is a collaboration between Grist and High Country News. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads ...