The Arkansas River that we know had many other names through history. There was a tribe of Indians who at one time inhabited ...

To protect their longstanding wocus gathering tradition and the habitat it depends on, the Klamath Tribes have advocated for ...

Sen. Lisa Murkowski , chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, addressed the U.S. Senate floor regarding a letter she ...

However, for over a century, federal officials have denied the tribe’s claims, arguing the Duwamish had effectively ceased to exist, with its members absorbed into other Native American groups.

Shoshone-Paiute Tribes referenced the Indian Citizen Act of 1924 and explained that their people were here before reservations or the forming of the United States. "Our people have lived here ...

Come 1956, President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed the Lumbee Act, which recognized the tribe as the "Lumbee Indians of North Carolina." However, the said legislation did not provide federal ...

“This process was established to provide a fair, transparent, and rigorous mechanism for determining whether a group (is) comprised of Indian ancestry from historical tribes.” Hicks added that ...

Its designation marks the first time Native American tribes successfully advocated for the protection of their ancestral lands as a national monument. Thanks to the coordination and persistence of the ...

Stories like the rubber boom, told from a Native perspective, are the reason René Locklear White buys and distributes Carapella’s maps. A member of North Carolina’s Lumbee tribe, White is retired from ...

To read the decision or view the map of tribal lands , open attachments below. By Shannon Fiecke Staff Writer The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs has granted the Shakopee Mdewakanton Dakota ...