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Every four years, Navajo presidential candidates crisscross the reservation to tell tribal members that they have a plan to create much-needed jobs, to build roads on the vast lands and to make it easier for businesses to set up shop.

A group of New Mexico medical school students failed to properly change needles on devices used for blood glucose testing, and now officials say a few dozen people might be at risk for contracting serious diseases.

A Crow war chief who stole horses from German officers during World War II helped dedicate the Payne Family Native American Center at the University of Montana.

An investigator for the Montana Human Rights Bureau found reasonable cause that five Glacier County sheriff's deputies who are Caucasian were discriminated against when the county and the Blackfeet Tribe signed a cross-deputization agreement.

Prosecutors in New Mexico said they will pursue hate crime charges against three men accused of branding a swastika on a mentally challenged man's arm using a heated metal clothes hanger.

A school board president in southeast South Dakota said officials will work to address racial issues in the district after students wore "White Pride" T-shirts to school.

The Jicarilla Apache Nation of northern New Mexico and the Mescalero Apache Tribe in southern New Mexico are getting federal housing grants.

The University of Montana plans several events Thursday to celebrate the completion of The Payne Family Native American Center.

One of the state's most notorious dealers in untaxed cigarettes may soon be freed from prison, thanks to what a judge called a "lack of clarity" in New York laws regulating tobacco sold on Indian reservations.

Two Arizona men accused of illegally hunting big game on the Crow Reservation have pleaded guilty to federal charges.

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is considering building a casino in Jones County, a development that would be the tribe's second gambling area in the state

Alaska Native and American Indian women living in the nation's urban centers are more than twice as likely to experience nonconsenting sexual intercourse in their first encounter, a new study shows.

The plaintiffs' attorney in a proposed $3.4 billion settlement against the government for mismanaging Indian trust funds says Congress can't change the terms of the agreement.

A Maine Indian tribe is coming out against a November referendum asking voters if they want a casino in western Maine.

A statue of Sacajawea with her baby in a papoose on her back has been dedicated with music, ceremonial blessings and the burning of sweetgrass at the Missouri River Federal Courthouse in Great Falls.

Fremont County's at-large voting system for county commissioner elections dilutes the American Indian vote and must be changed, U.S. District Judge Alan Johnson has ruled.

With federal approval behind them, developers of what would be the nation's first offshore wind farm still have a tough journey ahead before finally producing power in the waters off Cape Cod.

The Montana governor's office says it is launching a search for a new state coordinator of Indian affairs.

The Catawba Indian Nation wants to take over an existing bingo hall in the Columbia area after being thwarted in four other cities

A whole new way of generating electricity in the U.S. drew a big step closer to reality Wednesday, and it could look like this: 130 windmills, 440 feet tall, rising from the ocean a few miles off Cape Cod.