Louisiana recognizes four Native American tribes: the Chitimacha Tribe, the Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana, the Jena Band of Choctaw Indians, and the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana. Each tribe ...

How the lawsuit began. The Agua Caliente tribe first sued the water agencies in 2013, contending it has a priority right to groundwater under its lands, which include much of downtown Palm Springs ...

President Donald Trump’s move toward federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina fulfills a repeated promise he made on the campaign trail, but it has sparked concern from other ...

The San Carlos Apache Tribe wants a federal court to delay a land swap that would allow construction of a copper mine at Oak Flat. A federal judge ordered a halt to the deal last week after ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — Rosebud Sioux Tribe has declared a state of emergency. Kathleen Wooden Knife, the first woman tribe president, cited the escalating threats posed by widespread meth… ...

KAMILCHE POINT, Mason County – The Squaxin Island Tribe’s health clinic is named after Sally Brownfield’s late mother, who spent decades working to obtain quality care for members of her ...

MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell is joined by Harvard Constitutional Law Professor Laurence Tribe who sounds off on Donald Trump’s attempts to block international students from the university.

The Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs is a federally recognized, sovereign Indian tribe representing the Wasco, Warm Springs and Paiute peoples, occupying the Warm Springs Reservation in ...

If the tribe and state’s petition is then approved by the federal government, it would return to a pre-1953 jurisdictional arrangement, giving criminal jurisdiction to the federal government and ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. called the lack of healthy food options on Native reservations a “genocide.” Now the Trump administration has ended a program intended to fix the problem.

Sarah Beesley, fisheries biologist for the Yurok Tribe, hugs a tree located in land that will be returned to the Yurok Tribe, Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, in Humboldt County, Calif. (AP Photo ...