On the 108-acre Pinoleville Ranch­eria in Ukiah, California, two hours north of San Francisco, Nathan Rich showed me around the new home he planned to move into with his three kids...
With short, kicking steps that skim the earth, jingle dress dancers rise and fall...
Grant Bulltail is one of those remarkable people who ties us to previous generations and can paint a rich image of tribal traditions...
Hartford “Sonny” Black Eagle, the adoptive Apsaalooke Nation (Crow) father of President Barack Obama, passed away in his sleep early Monday in his home on the Crow Reservation in M...
Bethany Yellowtail

For those of you connected to Indian country via cyberspace you’ll see that there has never been a more exciting time to be Native American than the present. What I see when I scroll down my newsfeed are a ton of brilliant beautiful Native folk making waves on and off the reservation....

November 16, 2012
On October 10, members of three Montana tribes— Northern Cheyenne , Crow and Gros Ventre and Assiniboine—filed a voting-rights lawsuit in federal court in Billings...
Cole R. DeLaune

Digesting the broadcast of this month's Democratic National Convention, one was reminded of an expertly polished minstrel show....

September 22, 2012
Calvin Coolidge Jefferson, vice chairman of the Crow Nation Tribal governments in Montana are collaborating with several federal agencies on a pilot program to reduce the high rate...
According to Montana’s Office of Public Instruction (OPI), 10.9 percent of that state’s students in grades 7 to 12 over the past five years were Indians, but Indians made up 48.6 p...
Madeline Roanhorse

Two weeks ago, the Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction (Super Committee) failed to meet its legislative mandate of cutting $1.2 trillion from federal spending over 10 years....

January 04, 2012

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