The Latest Breaking News on Native America

He called it “oafish” and “obnoxious.”

LA PLANT, S.D. — Past a gravel road lined with old white wooden buildings is a new eight-acre village dotted with colorful houses, tepees and a sweat lodge.

Victims – among them environmental defender Edwin Chota – were tortured before their deaths in Peruvian Amazon in 2014

In a damning report, human rights group says state permitted ‘excessive and lethal use of force’ against Indigenous groups

Native Americans are bracing for what they say are racist traditions as the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs embarked Wednesday on a victory lap with a hometown parade

Brazil’s Federal Police are carrying out a court order to seize more than $384 million related to about 13 tons of gold mined illegally in the Amazon rainforest, then exported through an unnamed U.S.-based company

MICSA empowers Maine to block the applicability of virtually all federal Indian self-determination policies

Getting an abortion has long been extremely difficult for Native Americans and has become even tougher since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

Hundreds of the 574 federally recognized Indian nations in the U.S. now routinely provide their citizens with the full array of services customarily expected from state and local governments, from tax collection to environmental protection regulations. At the same time, many tribes are becoming the economic engines of their regions.

LAS VEGAS — Nathan Chasing Horse, an alleged cult leader and former actor arrested in North Las Vegas and accused of sexually assaulting and trafficking women and girls, is now facing an additional charge from the Fort Peck Indian Reservation.

An attorney who oversaw New Mexico’s Indian Affairs Department has been tapped to serve as a top legal advisor to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland