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

A Native American tribe and a northern Wisconsin town have reached an agreement to temporarily reopen four barricaded roads that are the subject of a decadelong dispute and a recent lawsuit

Supporters say a major oil project President Joe Biden is OK'ing on Alaska’s petroleum-rich North Slope represents an economic lifeline for Indigenous communities while environmentalists say it runs counter to his climate goals

Former Navajo Nation President Peterson Zah was honored Saturday with a funeral procession that stretched from western New Mexico into eastern Arizona

Signing off on the Willow plan would place the president’s political career in conflict with climate-minded Democrats

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