Tyrell Pond, 12, Lakota, had been bullied from first through fourth grade, but when he joined the Be Excited About Reading (Bear) Program in Pine Ridge, South Dakota everything tur...

Teen suicide has been a major topic of concern for many reservations, but in Rapid City, South Dakota, an exhibition of photographs, taken by elementary and middle school students ...

For Colorado , with a shrinking state budget and a growing Native American student body at Fort Lewis College (FLC) in Durango, planning has been difficult because of a potentially...

Lyla Johnston’s tribal name is Tate Uha Omani , meaning She Carries the Wind, and she said it reminds her of her purpose as a poet. “The wind is the word,” she said...

Stanford University senior Lyla Johnston’s commitment to bringing her indigenous perspective to anthropology has led her on many journeys: from studying menstrual taboos surroundin...

The band council of the Cowichan Tribes in British Columbia has declared a state of emergency after a recent rash of suicides in their communities...

Margo Gray-Proctor, Osage, president, Horizon Engineering Service Company, will serve on the Native American Advisory Council to the Big Brothers Big Sisters of America...

Appetite for Destruction The emerald ash borer beetle is extremely beautiful, and extraordinarily voracious...

Family alcoholism, emotional vulnerability, and the lack of community and education put aboriginal youth on a path to solvent abuse, violence and, all too often, suicide...