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Officials on the Blackfeet Indian Reservation are partnering with a Denver-based company in looking for oil on reservation lands along the Rocky Mountain Front.

The Wind River Indian Reservation has toughened its drunken-driving standards for tribal members.

The 26th Athabascan Fiddlers Festival is expected to unite hundreds of locals with hundreds of friends and relatives pouring in from Alaska's interior communities.

Hopi lawmakers have voted to suspend the tribe's appellate court, leaving tribal members without an avenue to dispute decisions of the lower court.

Long a behind-the-scenes player in the gaming industry, the Navajo Nation is now set to open its first casino in the hopes slot machines, poker and bingo will bring in much-needed revenue to the tribe and jobs to its people.

A decision by a federal appeals panel has rekindled the debate over whether to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gases, clouding the future of a $3 billion coal-fired power plant in northwestern New Mexico.

Montana fisheries officials say they've tentatively agreed to give the proposed Tongue River Railroad a 25-acre easement through a major fish hatchery near the Yellowstone River.

An agreement signed Thursday lays the groundwork for removing four hydroelectric dams from the Klamath River to help one of the West Coast's most beleaguered salmon runs and end a longstanding environmental dispute.

With the first election of an African American president, the nation sees a broader horizon. Some see hope on that horizon for Native America.

Two environmental groups are suing the Bureau of Land Management, alleging that the federal agency has failed to curb ozone levels and safeguard air quality in northwestern New Mexico from oil and gas industry emissions.

Farmers, Indian tribes, fishermen and state officials were briefed Wednesday on a nonbinding agreement for PacifiCorp to turn over control of four Klamath River dams so they can be removed to help struggling salmon.

Tohono O'odham students on the University of Arizona campus are making themselves known by starting their own club.

Fort Lewis College has received a grant worth $2.5 million over two years, much of which it plans to use to support its Native American students.

New Mexico State University's Veterans Day Weekend would not be complete unless the Navajo Code Talkers and Mescalero Apache Vietnam war veterans walked onto the field and did justice to the day's theme: "Salute to American Heroes."

No one is sure how much oil might lie beneath the town, but with the wells spreading south toward Parshall near the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation in North Dakota, things have begun to change.

A recent preliminary study found that 77 percent of the homes on the western side of the Navajo Nation aren't suitable to live in, more than 40 percent of homes don't have electricity and 10 percent of residents make almost daily trips to haul water.

Rosella Hightower, a Choctaw ballerina who became a leading figure in the European dance world and founded a major ballet school in France, has died. She was 88.

Table games are illegal again in Florida, except for those covered by a deal the governor struck with the Seminole Indians to allow Las Vegas-style slots, blackjack and baccarat at tribal casinos. Not everyone is happy.

A roundup of 182 bison in the south unit of Theodore Roosevelt National Park has been completed early with little stress on the animals or people involved, the park superintendent says.

The Kootenai River white sturgeon is one of the most intriguing, and some would say bizarre, fish in North America, with a history that extends beyond multiple ice ages.