With skyrocketing rates of diabetes and obesity throughout the aboriginal population, a new website and the Aboriginal Peoples’ Television Network (APTN) have teamed up to create a...

A total of 86 tribal schools—55 in Arizona and 31 in New Mexico—will benefit from a comprehensive settlement announced August 23 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...

Pitched battles are being fought all across North America and beyond by indigenous groups protecting ancestral burial grounds...

Aboriginals in British Columbia have taken the notion of sovereignty to another level: Faced with higher rates of health problems than mainstream Canadian society, a group of First...

Navajo Generating Station in Page, Arizona “Coal: it’s the safest energy there is.” So reads the slogan for a parody web site aimed at Peabody Energy , which operates Arizona’s coa...

In an effort to improve the health and well being of American Indian and Alaska Native youth and decrease obesity, First Lady Michelle Obama created Let's Move!...

The high stillbirth rate among Inuit people is cause for concern, though not entirely because of the numbers themselves, according to one health expert...

Mora used to be afraid of testing her blood sugar, but now tests three times a day...

A new fitness policy for the Suquamish Tribe's law enforcement officials lead to the dismissal of three police officers in April, reported the Kitsap Sun ...

A medical marijuana skin patch—originally developed in the 1990s by Walter Cristobal, a member of the Pueblo of Santa Ana of New Mexico—might be available by the end of this year, ...