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Ramah settlement funds finally released by Obama administration (August 11, 2016)

Nearly 700 tribes and tribal organizations across the nation will share in the $940 million settlement.

Indian Health Service board certifies more health aides in Alaska (August 11, 2016)

The Community Health Aide Program trains Alaska Natives to provide services in their villages.

Ute Tribe calls on state to end 'constant attacks' on its sovereignty (August 11, 2016)

Will a new court ruling put an end to 40 years of litigation? Tribal leaders hope so.

Tribes and Native youth join forces in campaign to stop oil pipeline (August 11, 2016)

Youth from two tribes ran 2,000 miles across the country as their leaders mounted a legal challenge to the Dakota Access Pipeline.

Dina Gilio-Whitaker: Native people are still fighting for their basic rights (August 11, 2016)

Do you think that the United States’ injustices against American Indians exist only in the past?

Charles Trimble: Tough women like Hillary Clinton deserve a chance (August 11, 2016)

Even if she wins the office of President, Hillary Clinton will find that she still is bumping up against a barrier; not a glass ceiling but a barrier of greater expectations and demands than any man would have to face.

Bad River Band included in President Obama's disaster declaration (August 11, 2016)

The Wisconsin tribe was hit hard by storms and floods that have left dozens of families without homes.

Researchers question own theories on migration of first Americans (August 11, 2016)

A possible route that stretches from present-day Alaska to Montana is the subject of new studies.

Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation resolve water rights lawsuit (August 11, 2016)

The tribes asserted ownership to water under the 1830 Treaty of Dancing Rabbit Creek.

Mark Trahant: Native candidates advance in Minnesota and Wisconsin (August 11, 2016)

Seven Native candidates are in the running in Minnesota and there's another in Wisconsin.

Lakota Country Times: Lakota culture inspires massive sculpture (August 11, 2016)

It’s about to be another very warm summer day in western South Dakota as Masayuki Nagase stands near his 'home-away-from-home' since 2013.

Ernest Stevens: Sorry but tribal sovereignty isn't some 'loophole' (August 11, 2016)

Tribal leaders are working to reform laws that respect tribal sovereignty, cut down economic barriers, provide incentives for entrepreneurs and provide tribal governments with equal access to tools that other governments enjoy.

Native Sun News: Young Pine Ridge resident killed after exposing 'fake' medicine man (August 11, 2016)

Soon after coming forward and exposing what he called a 'fake,' Todd Little Bull was shot and killed on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota.

Brian Cladoosby: A victory for Native voting rights in North Dakota (August 11, 2016)

The president of the National Congress of American Indians calls on the federal government to do more to protect voting rights in Indian Country.
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