The Rapid City Indian School was created by the federal government to assimilate Native children during the larger federal ...

National researchers find a growing number of tribes are adapting legal requirements of ICWA to match the priorities of their ...

A recent tribal-state compact between Minnesota and the White Earth Nation laid out guidelines necessary for the tribe to operate cannabis businesses outside the reservation ...

Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans’ disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law ...

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WASHINGTON — Imagine walking in to cast a ballot for the very first time, already unsure if the process will go smoothly. And then a poll worker makes a sly comment about a past criminal conviction.

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American ...

WASHINGTON — Ronnie Jo Horse is only the second generation in her Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne family to be able to fully participate in elections. Her grandfather was born in 1910, before ...

From Norma Aldredge’s kitchen table, you can hear the cooing of her three-month-old granddaughter and the crying of another grandchild, just 6 months old, in the next room. Two more of Aldredge’s ...