Fulfilling the federal government's responsibilities to American Indians continues to be a major challenge for the Department of Interior, Congressional investigators said on Thursday....

George Bush - From you was the State of the Union address to your judicial appointees, you always come out looking clean....

The head of the Minneapolis, Minnesota, police officers' union on Thursday vehemently denied allegations of police brutality, suggesting accounts of a beating of an American Indian man and women were false....

Keith DeHaas, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, got into the apparel business because he got tired of t-shirts with rainbows and maidens being sold at pow-wows....

The "Lost" Cherokee Nation of Arkansas and Missouri is seeking recognition by the state of Missouri....

Connecticut's two tribal casinos aren't likely to see any competition in the region soon, The New London Day reports....

A member of the Spirit Lake Nation of North Dakota has created a comic book for Native youth....

The Kickapoo Tribe and the Sac and Fox Tribe made their pitch for a new casino in Kansas on Thursday....

A New Mexico man has been charged with a third-degree felony count of child abuse for losing track of his seven-year-old daugther daughter what was reported to be an alcohol binge....

Members of the Seminole Tribe of Florida paid tribute on Thursday to Chief Osceola....

The president of the Mescalero Apache Nation of New Mexico and a council member were impeached by the tribal council on Wednesday....

Although most of the delegates to the Navajo Nation council are freshmen, the committee leadership are veterans of the tribe's governing body....

Members of the Shinnecock Nation of New York are opposing a local landowner's development plans, claiming the land in question belongs to the tribe....

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee pushed through the nomination of a controversial appeals court nominee on Thursday....

An internal Department of Interior report supports a ban on snowmobile use at Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks....

"Here in southeastern Connecticut, we have what might be called the “company nation,” a community dominated by one giant business, gambling, that affects everything in sight but has a far less paternalistic attitude toward its employees. This is a good thing, and a bad thing. Employees at Mohegan Sun and Foxwoods casinos can take care of many of their personal needs, from dry cleaning to banking to weight lifting to filling prescriptions and filling up at the gas tank, right on company property....

"In April 2001, No Child Left Behind was launched as the Bush administration's sweeping new educational initiative that was hailed as "revolutionary" in bringing our nation's public school systems into the 21st century....

Shoshone-Bannock tribal member Mark Trahant has been named editorial page editor for The Seattle Post-Intelligencer....

The Sioux Falls Argus Leader in an editorial today says it was wrong to "sympathize" with former assistant secretary Neal McCaleb....

The Shoshone-Bannock Nation of Idaho is asking the FBI to investigate the shooting death of a tribal member....

American Indian Movement activist Clyde Bellecourt said he wasn't surprised that a Minneapolis, Minnesota, police union official was denying claims of police brutality....

The Rosebud Sioux Tribe is planning a march on the IHS hospital on the Rosebud Reservation....

Changes underway at an Alaska Native-owned company could spell the end of the nation's first daily Native newscast, sources and employees said on Thursday....

The first annual State of American Indian Nations Address will be given today by National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) President Tex Hall....

Attorneys for 500,000 Indian beneficiaries said they would be working to meet a midnight deadline in order to respond to the Bush administration's trust reform plans....

Freshman Congressman Rick Renzi (R-Arizona) introduced his first bill on Thursday, to settle some water rights of the Zuni Tribe of New Mexico....