The Muscogee (Creek) Nation on October 30 did not receive the news it was hoping for, when the U.S...

On October 18, the U.S...

A 58-year-old Native man failed in a challenge to the admission of evidence in his 2010 trial on charges of assault with intent to commit murder and related offenses, a three-judge...

Two piles of mingled industrial tailings—known locally as “chat”—have triggered a conflict in northeastern Oklahoma between Quapaw Tribe descendants who are the chat’s partial owne...

Continuing Indian Country Today Media Network’s periodic roundup of court cases relevant to Indian country decided in the Ninth Circuit, we examine several new federal circuit cour...

A Navajo man who sued the government for misdiagnosing and then botching surgery on his injured hand lost in the Tenth U.S...

Adam Frost, identified by the Department of Justice as a Southern Ute Indian Tribe (Southern Ute) member, unsuccessfully challenged a 2010 rape conviction charging that errors in t...

Eight Osage Nation members who objected to greater latitude in tribal voting and tribal office were unsuccessful June 19 when they brought their concerns before the U.S...

A New Mexico tribal member failed to convince the U.S. 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals May 10 that an assault conviction would affect his future tribal employment, in Ronald F...

A tribal nation that wants to invest the interest on federal housing grants described its position to a three-judge panel of the U.S. 10 th Circuit Court of Appeals on May 7...