The invading Christians labeled the indigenous people as heathens. They set out with a vengeance to cleanse the land of these heathens.

It’s hard to believe 10 years have already passed, but this month, U.S. Census postcards will show up in mailboxes across Cherokee Nation and the United States.

The first annual Native American Elite Middle and High School Basketball Nationals is taking place in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are weighing two big issues this week.

The largest city in North Dakota has shut down a community-run sweat lodge due to concerns about health and safety.

The Trump administration's disjointed tribal homelands policy continues to crumble amid scrutiny in the courts and in Indian Country.

On September 19, Taos Pueblo will commemorate the fifty-year anniversary of the return of sacred Blue Lake to the tribe.

Tribes, organizations and enterprises in Indian Country are trying to conduct business and mitigate fears about the coronavirus.

The National Indian Gaming Association is getting ready for another successful tradeshow.

It was sophomore year of high school when I first noticed him and I knew he was different.

Our laws and legal processes, as they relate to Facebook and its Big Tech brethren, are inadequate and unethical.

Eric True Blood, Oglala Lakota from Sheridan, Wyoming, does not consider himself a hero.

The U.S. Forest Service approved a $60 million expansion of a privately-owned ski resort in the sacred San Francisco Peaks.

Are your reading habits diverse and open to all ideas? Or do you, like many of us, just read from the sources that agree with us?

The Indian Health Service remains without a permanent leader as the coronavirus emerges as the latest crisis for the agency.

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation reopened their gaming facility after addressing fears connected to the coronavirus in Oregon.

Voters of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are being asked to approve the sale of alcohol at gaming establishments on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

If you take out the words "tribal" and "Indian" all you have left are patients fighting a federal agency for health care.

Traditionally, uncles played the role of disciplinarians, teachers and advisors in Northern Cheyenne society, a role Leroy Whiteman took very seriously.

"Right now, throughout the world, we’re not taking care of our lands," Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said.

A hearing on tax issues in Indian Country features all four tribal citizens who serve in Congress for the first time in history.

President Trump is proposing cuts to the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Bureau of Indian Education.

A Cayuga leader's decision to tear down 12 properties with the assistance of newly-sworn in tribal police officers has sparked a series of protests and altercation in New York.

Federal law enforcement shootings have escaped heightened scrutiny even though most of the victims have been black, Hispanic or Native American,

When Charles Trimble first showed up at the boarding school on the Pine Ridge Reservation, he was dropped off by his mother.

Tribal energy development and tribal wildlife management are on the agenda for the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.

"Tribes are not prepared for the coronavirus," one health expert told ICT.

Olympic gold medalist Billy Mills announced the sixth class of Indian youth to receive $10,000 grants for projects that help them bring their dreams to life.

Go to the hell you tried to create for us on this earth.

This economy is terrible, for millions, as usual. The U.S. public must not be hoodwinked by fraudulent numbers.

The subjects of the 'Warrior Women' film are speaking out against the dangers of the Keystone XL Pipeline.

What do our non-Lakota neighbors know about life here on the Pine Ridge?

Two Arizonans -- one of them a tribal leader -- brought two very different ideas about the border wall to a hearing in the nation's capital.

The world is beginning to better understand that the core of extractive industries are tied to deep political and economic conflicts related to the settler-colonial present and a shared colonial history.

According to an analysis by multistate marijuana provider Verilife, the place with the largest number of dispensaries in the country per 50,000 residents is in Montana.

The Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation and the Mohegan Tribe want to expand gaming in Connecticut but the governor is backing rival legislation that could undermine their rights.

The Democratic presidential race got a major jolt over the weekend as one candidate continues to face questions about Indian ancestry claims.

The Democratic-led House Committee on Ways and Means will be taking up tribal taxation issues for the first time at a hearing in the nation's capital.

Everybody who came to the Holy Rosary Mission Boarding School on the Pine Ridge Reservation worked.

At Cherokee Nation, we focus on empowering the next generation of leaders at every level.

The Democratic Party’s tightening embrace of socialist proposals and politicians is real cause for alarm, especially in a country whose very foundation is liberty.

We all have our own idea of what our American Dream looks like and having a job helps us accomplish that goal.

Eric True Blood, Oglala Lakota from Sheridan, Wyoming, does not consider himself a hero.

The Lakota Food Summit drew hundreds of us to talk about how to eat, how to cook, how to pay attention to the environment and how to engage in plantings and harvesting of foods that sustained our ancestors for centuries.

An emotional Tohono O'odham Nation chairman said blasting sacred sites to build a border wall has "forever damaged our people."

Building sustainable communities is the antidote to fear of a changing climate.

A casino employee tested 'presumptive positive' for the coronavirus, prompting the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation into action.

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt (R) is a citizen of the Cherokee Nation but the tribe once tried to remove his ancestors from their rolls.

The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe isn't giving up despite a negative ruling from a federal appeals court.

The National Congress of American Indians drove another nail into the coffin of its senior-most attorney following his ouster from the organization.

Indigenous leaders were among the many who raised their voices at one of only two hearings on a Trump administration proposal to roll back environmental policy.

Efforts to memorialize the 550-mile path that the Ponca people were forced to walk in the late 1800s are getting a major boost.

The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States will be discussing the Trump administration's destruction of sacred sites at a hearing in Washington, D.C.

Indian Country remains united as the nation's highest court prepares to hear the only tribal law case on the docket.

Legendary Native activist Frank LaMere had a journal with three words on the cover: 'Make things happen.'

A new high school is opening on the Pine Ridge Reservation in the fall of 2020.

Motives are often deliberately obscured by the non-Indian community that cannot bear to look at its own history concerning Indian-White hostility.

A federal judge has overturned environmental permits for the Rosemont Copper Mine, a controversial project opposed by tribes in Arizona.

The Omaha Tribe of declared a state of emergency following weeks of tragedy in the community.

We saw other Lakota families working in the beet fields in the summer of 1949.

Let us begin by acknowledging the fact that band councils are not First Nations while beginning the process of restoring our peoples to true national status.

The Cherokee Nation is the first tribe in the U.S. to receive an invitation to deposit its traditional seeds in the Svalbard Global Seed Vault in Norway.

Ever since Europeans began venturing to and settling in the New World, the ultimate removal of the Indigenous peoples was to be the plan.

The Oglala Sioux Tribe doesn't accept donations from oil companies but that didn't stop one district from cashing a $50,000 Keystone XL Pipeline check.

Ten years attending an on-reservation parochial residential school shaped the rest of my life.

The Ojibwe people are revitalizing the 'berry fast,' a coming-of-age ritual for girls.

"We have met one-on-one with all of the tribal nations in the state of Arizona," an official from the U.S. Census Bureau said.

States with fewer local protections and resources will suffer the most — as will their people and wildlife.

An Indian Education for All project in Montana features successful and inspirational Native role models.

Native Americans have always been pushed aside and now the rest of America can get a taste of how that feels.

The Trump administration took another step toward expediting a border wall, waiving federal contracting regulations to fast track construction in four states.

A Native woman-owned counseling firm with offices in three tribal communities is expanding its reach.