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Ranchers are voicing concern about plans to relocate some Yellowstone Park bison to Indian reservations in Montana and Wyoming.

The lack of a government-to-government extradition treaty between the Blackfeet Nation and Missoula County has stalled county attempts to jail the son of a tribal business council member on assault charges.

A Billings woman requesting anonymity has bought 615 acres south of Bridger and donated the property to the U.S. Bureau of Land Management.

The Hoh Indian Tribe, inundated by a river and rains, is trying to relocate its 433-acre reservation to higher ground in Washington State.

The Bush administration on Tuesday approved a plan that could allow more than 18,000 natural gas wells to be drilled in southeastern Montana over the next two decades. The plan had been delayed by the Northern Cheyenne and others.

Hopi lawmakers have scheduled a hearing to determine whether tribal Chairman Ben Nuvamsa, who has said he is resigning Wednesday, neglected his duties while in office.

Montana's first American Indian state schools superintendent, Denise Juneau, says she's an American Indian first — but doesn't want to be viewed as a single-issue elected official, either.

A vignette of how one Native American family is coping with the economic recession. Destria Cellicion says, "I cry at night when the kids are sleeping. Sometimes I feel like giving up."

A nursing instructor at Montana State University in Bozeman will use a two-year grant to advise the Blackfeet Tribe about care that alleviates pain and suffering caused by serious illness, particularly cancer.

One of five great Native American ballerinas recalls what it was like as they achieved fame in dance.

The Indian Child Welfare Act has played a deciding role in the difficult case of a Utah family that tried to adopt the 6-month-old son whose mother is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. The infant is now with the tribe in Minnesota.

The two top leaders of the Hopi Tribe say they will resign Dec. 31 in hopes of putting to rest what has been political chaos on the northern Arizona reservation.

The Southwest Indian Foundation, which has offices in northwestern New Mexico, helps fill a critical need by providing jobs, emergency and social services to American Indian families in a region where unemployment and poverty rates are high.

American Indian tribes could have more influence in management of the Missouri River after a bylaw change by the Missouri River Association of States and Tribes.

For the young man and others who appear before the Tulalip Tribes Elder Court, the board of senior citizens who offer grandparentlike advice is their last hope at starting adult life with a clean slate.

The Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians, lumped together on a reservation after being driven from their native territories, lost nearly everything. But they are coming back.

A fish once found throughout the Zuni River watershed has been reduced to three small populations in a couple of remote canyons that slice through western New Mexico, so biologists and conservationists have teamed up to keep the fish from disappearing.

A rare find in Georgia has led researchers to suspect American Indians used burned bodies of the dead, making it a rare example of cremation among the early Native inhabitants of the southeastern U.S.

Lori Archambault teaches at the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation's White Clay Immersion School. She says her students comprehend most lessons easier when she incorporates their tribal language, history and culture.

Florida Attorney General Bill McCollum said Thursday he has asked the federal government to prosecute the Seminole Indian tribe over its blackjack operations.