As the Founding Fathers gathered at Philadelphia on July 4, 1776 to declare the United States’ independence from British rule ...

In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court rejected Oklahoma's attempt to prosecute crimes committed on a reservation by an Indian. Henceforth, the tribe, not the state, would have jurisdiction ...

Two Native American tribes filed a class-action lawsuit on Thursday against the U.S. government for its role in running a system of boarding schools for more than a century that separated Native ...

WATONGA, Okla. (AP) — As the Watonga school system’s Indian education director, Hollie Youngbear works to help Native American students succeed — a job that begins with getting them to school. She ...

The United States government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation in an 1829 treaty. Instead, the U.S sold all of it illegally to white settlers. The ...

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WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has never been much of an ally to Native American tribes, regularly trying to slash their federal funding and strip protections from culturally important public ...

NORMAN, Okla. — Three tribal nations and five Native American students say in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes when it cut jobs at Bureau of Indian ...

A Native American tribe that was displaced by the establishment of Yosemite National Park is getting part of its lands back. The land transfer, from Pacific Forest Trust, is considered a major ...