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Richard West, while director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, spent $48,500 in museum funds for a portrait of himself by a non-Native artist. Two U.S. senators call for an investigation into West's spending.

Navajo lawmakers have passed a measure requiring employers on the reservation to provide a place for working mothers to breast feed.

Navajo lawmakers have rejected an effort to have medals awarded to tribal veterans, saying there are more pressing needs on the reservation.

New Mexico's county clerks are setting up early voting sites in Indian Country at the request of tribes, but complain that they've been given no guidance from the state, as required by law.

The Glacier County attorney has declined to press charges under the state hate crime law against three brothers who a county commissioner says beat him while calling him a "dirty Indian" and other names.

A silver bite-sized fish in western Utah may need federal protections to survive, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said Wednesday.

A Denver-based banking company founded in 2001 to serve the Native American community has opened a loan office on a reservation in southeastern Idaho.

A new foster-care law bridges Washington's partisan divide and is touted as the most significant child-welfare reform in decades.

The "secretary of state" of a group that claims to be an American Indian tribe was sentenced Friday to one year and one day in prison for encouraging illegal immigrants to live in the U.S.

North Dakota's Board of Higher Education says it won't back out of a lawsuit settlement over the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname.