The Latest Breaking News on Native America

Federal reforms have made Native American health care and education programs more accessible to tribal citizens who are descended from slaves held by citizens of several tribal nations in Oklahoma

Local river defenders force U-turn by occupying grain terminal operated by one of US powerhouses of world trade

Three women lived for years as the last members of the Akuntsu people, who were decimated by a government-backed push to develop parts of the Amazon rainforest in the 1970s and ‘80s

Mexico’s Supreme Court has started holding sessions in remote towns, opening the effort in an Indigenous community in Chiapas

A federal judge in Oregon has ordered narrow changes to hydropower dam operations on the Columbia and Snake rivers in the Pacific Northwest to help salmon

The Amondawa, a small Amazonian tribe, seem to live in a very different way from most of us. Their language doesn’t have a word for “time.” No months, years, and no way to talk about ages in the way we do. People move through life marked by stages or roles,…

After years of legal wrangling, energy company Enbridge has finally started rerouting an aging oil pipeline around a tribal reservation in northern Wisconsin

Two Indians have been deported by the Canadian authorities for their involvement in a range of illegal activities in the country involving extortion, threatening the public, arson, shoplifting etc. It's not known whether they are related or are known to each other or worked for the same gang, but both…

Illegal gold mining is spreading into new parts of Peru’s Amazon, and experts say it is driving a growing environmental and health crisis

In the 1970s, the agency that provides health care to Native Americans sterilized thousands of women without their full and informed consent

An effort to conserve Indigenous languages has brought song and books translated to the Kaqchikel language to a school in Guatemala's western highlands