Today, there are roughly 1,900 land-into-trust applications pending from among the 565 federally recognized Indian tribes, and the U.S...

New Mexico's Indian tribes are ganging up against the Jemez Pueblo in opposition of its bid to partner with a Santa Fe art dealer Gerald Peters to build a $55 million hotel and cas...

Interior Assistant Secretary Larry Echo Hawk, the head of the Bureau of Indian Affairs , rescinded a controversial 2008 memorandum by the Bush Administration that effectively banne...

Indigenous peoples and nation-states have different social and cultural ground rules that often present varying interpretations of history and contemporary relations...

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BIA is silent; members are determined to elect their government For members of the Aroostook Band of Micmac Indians , it was déjà vu all over again...

Tribes operating services formerly run by the federal government should finally have their program administrative costs paid, following 17 years in which Congress capped funding fo...

The Usk, Washington-based Kalispel Tribe owns and operates Northern Quest Resort and Casino in Airway Heights--one of only three off-reservation casinos under the two-part Indian G...

The Spokane Tribe of Washington is announcing a group to support its $400 million mixed-use development project and off-reservation casino bid, reported The Spokesman-Review ...

Indian country leaders reacted swiftly to the latest outbreak of “the language of savagery” —racist and offensive remarks made by prominent people. This time it occurred in Maine...