The Latest Breaking News on Native America

US government decision to greenlight ConocoPhillips Alaska’s $8bn Willow oil project received praise and condemnation.

On his first trip to Indigenous land in the Amazon rainforest since taking office, Brazilian President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva has expressed support for the creation of new territories for those communities

Over the past several years, hundreds of unmarked graves have been discovered near the sites of Canada's former residential schools, in which the government forcibly placed some 150,000 indigenous children. In what's been described as cultural genocide, both boys and girls were subjected to psychological and physical abuse. But the…

Chief Allan Adam says Imperial Oil and energy regulator ‘covered up’ failures over mine waste seeping from four tailings ponds

The Interior Department initiative will prioritize Indigenous culture and expertise

A social media campaign is urging President Joe Biden to reject an oil development project on Alaska's North Slope

Peterson Zah, who guided one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. through a politically tumultuous time, has died

LAS VEGAS — President Joe Biden will visit Nevada next week to designate Avi Kwa Ame as a national monument, sources say.

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Two of four South Carolina natives kidnapped in Mexico were being treated in a Brownsville, Texas, hospital Tuesday, while State Department officials worked to have the remains of the two who were killed returned, officials say.