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Tribal members congregate in late January each year at the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled hundreds of their ancestors in one of American history's bloodiest — but least remembered — massacres.

Phillip Martin, a longtime chief of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, was remembered Friday as a visionary who lifted the tribe from stifling poverty with casinos and other businesses.

Concerns about a proposed tribal casino in Park City may scuttle plans for a Sumner County casino.

A northern Idaho human rights group says one of the region's county sheriffs is refusing to cooperate with the Coeur d'Alene Indian Tribe on law enforcement matters.

Gang activity and teen suicide on American Indian reservations need to be addressed together, according to a national gang expert who says there's a strong connection between the two problems.

Motivational speaker James Arthur Ray pleaded not guilty Thursday to three counts of manslaughter at his first court appearance since being charged with causing three deaths at an Arizona sweat lodge ceremony he led.

The secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior, who is weighing the fate of a controversial wind farm proposed off Cape Cod, said Tuesday that killing the pioneering project wouldn't hurt the country's developing offshore wind industry.

Gov. Bob Riley said Milton McGregor's decision to close Alabama's largest casino and update the computers Tuesday is proof the gambling machines were operating illegally.

Tribal-owned casinos in Arizona saw revenue fall 13 percent in last year's fourth quarter.

Sonny Brave Eagle and his family spent six days in the dark without a phone or working radio before law officers found them in their home after a fierce winter storm cut power across South Dakota's impoverished Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

"Mr. Las Vegas" Wayne Newton is asking Virginia legislators to grant state recognition to his Indian tribe.

Billionaire Ted Turner is getting 88 Yellowstone National Park bison from a faltering Montana program that was supposed to put the disease-free animals on public or tribal lands.

An opposition faction within Montana's Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians has scheduled a March 6 election, in defiance of the tribe's president and some council members who says the move is illegitimate.

Prosecutors dropped federal charges Wednesday against one of two men accused in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement activist on a South Dakota reservation, opening the door for the case to move to a state court.

A Senate committee endorsed a plan Wednesday to build a nursing home on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation after the measure's sponsor said elderly tribal members now must move to nursing homes far from their families.

The top lawyer for the Navajo Nation’s legislative branch can issue opinions, contract with outside attorneys and enforce election codes under a measure passed by tribal lawmakers.

The Montana Historical Society is scheduling the Smithsonian Institution's "Native Words, Native Warriors" exhibit to tour the state's American Indian reservations.

On the day after the State of the Union address, the top official of the National Congress of American Indians presented his "State of the Nations" vision and outlined both a warm message of hope and some cold reality for those in Indian Country.

An Indian tribe will get a chance to argue the state of Wyoming never should have prosecuted a member in the beating death of his baby daughter because the attack happened in an area the tribe claims is still legally part of the Wind River Indian Reservation.

For three years, Missoula artist and carpenter Greg Millar searched in vain for anyone who could identify a Native American dancer in a photograph taken by his friend, Patrick Clark. Millar had crafted a mosaic from that photograph.