Getting young aboriginals into the workforce is a prime goal of First Nations leaders, and on March 11 that agenda was moved forward when officials from the Federation of Saskatche...

The Navajo Nation extended its lease on the coal-fired Four Corners Power Plant on its tribal land in northwestern New Mexico till 2041, reported Susan Montoya Bryan for the Associ...

The driving force behind recent gains in American Indian and Native Alaskan economic prosperity is not funding from state and federal programs but rather self-determination and sov...

The Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP), the "Keepers of the Fire," owners of FireKeepers Casino in Battle Creek, Mich., announced its intentions to expand its FireKee...

The Skeetchestn Indian Band on Kamloops Lake has called off a "peaceful service disruption" that it had scheduled to target large resource companies, the community-newspaper chain ...

What: AIBL 2011, the 17th Annual American Indian Business & Leadership National Conference is structured as three days of business information, training, and competitions deliv...

The Indian gaming industry saw its first decline in 2009--the latest year figures are available for--with revenues falling 1 percent to $26.4 billion, down from $26.7 billion in 20...

Absentee Shawnee Economic Development Authority (ASEDA), the economic arm of the Absentee Shawnee Tribe in Oklahoma, recently partnered with Park Lease of Dallas, Texas to form ASE...

A maverick chief who does not tolerate “Indian time.” A philanthropist CEO who has started eight nonprofit organizations...

Up to 10,000 miners are working illegally in a 60-square-mile area in Guacamayo to extract gold from the Peruvian Amazon region known as Madre de Dios, and it is ruining the once p...