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An American Indian lacrosse team's refusal to travel on passports not issued by the Iroquois confederacy goes to the heart of one of the most sensitive issues in Indian Country — sovereignty.

The Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission is holding public hearings to gather input on how to preserve and protect sacred sites.

Hawaii state Rep. Karen Awana is the new treasurer for the National Caucus of Native American State Legislators.

Hundreds of people on the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation are still without safe drinking water two weeks after flooding broke the reservation's water lines, tore up roads and forced dozens of evacuations.

The leader of the Quileute Nation in northwest Washington first began hearing her tribe had a role in the popular "Twilight Saga" from fans clamoring to know more about the place where a vampire tale of teenage love unfolds.

The Nez Perce tribe in north-central Idaho said Friday it doesn't want 200 over-sized loads of oil-field equipment traveling a reservation highway en route to an oil sands project in Canada.

Kennecott Eagle Minerals Co. doesn't need a federal permit to build a nickel and copper mine in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said in a letter to the company made public Friday.

Native American students at schools overseen by the federal Bureau of Indian Education performed significantly worse on national standardized tests in reading and math compared with those in public schools.

he state Division of Water Resources has decided to proceed with a groundwater pumping test at a planned city being built in the desert north of Las Vegas, even though an independent study suggests it could wipe out a federally protected species of fish.

A federal judge has asked attorneys when they'll be ready for trial in a gambling-related lawsuit filed by the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe against the state of South Dakota.

Researchers at the University of Colorado have discovered a 10,000-year-old hunting weapon they say had been preserved in ice before being melted out by rising temperatures.

Caught in the Senate filibuster of a bill to extend unemployment payments is a $3.4 billion government settlement with hundreds of thousands of American Indians over claims that the Interior Department mismanaged their land trust accounts.

An Indian tribe is suing the federal government to block distribution of money that Congress set aside for descendants of those who lived in a vast area including California's Death Valley and most of what is now Nevada.

A federal judge has dismissed claims against most of the defendants in a lawsuit alleging racial discrimination in investigating and prosecuting the deaths of Native Americans on the Crow Indian Reservation.

Detroit museum selling flag carried into battle by Lt. Gen. George Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment against Lakota Sioux warriors.

Some members of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians are calling for a tribe-wide vote on a planned expansion of gaming into Jones County.

The Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho tribes of Wyoming are receiving nearly $455,000 to provide job training for adults and at-risk youth.

The Senate has confirmed a member of the Tulalip Tribes in Washington state as chairwoman of the National Indian Gaming Commission.

Flood waters started to recede and the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation was "out of crisis mode" Wednesday, though dozens of evacuees had yet to return to their homes, the tribe's chairman said.

A former Fort Peck tribal employee has pleaded guilty to her role in a decade-long scheme in which more than $1 million was stolen from the tribe's credit department.