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Crownpoint Community School, a boarding school that became the anchor for a small community on the eastern edge of the Navajo reservation, will be replaced by a modern $38.4 million structure.

orth 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.

One of the so-called tribal chiefs of a Kansas group that claims to be an American Indian nation but that has not been recoghnized is going to prison for his role in a scheme to defraud immigrants.

Anderson Yazzie turned his path from tragedy to success when he turned a childhood hobby of fixing hair in Native styles into a profitable business.

New Mexico plans to refund American Indian veterans for state personal income taxes withheld from their paychecks while they were on active duty between 1977 and 2004.

The top vote-getters for tribal chairman in the Chippewa Cree primary Tuesday were Raymond J. Parker Jr. and Jonathan Windy Boy.

A new federal indictment has been handed up against a Canadian man who was days from being tried in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member when a judge threw out the original charges.

Crow Tribal Chairman Carl Venne says the tribe will support Big Horn County Sheriff Lawrence "Pete" Big Hair in an upcoming recall election.

Aquash's older daughter writes that "lies and cowardice collide with irony" with it because Graham first claimed he couldn't get a fair trial in the U.S. because he is Indian, then argued he wasn't.

Closed for 30 years, a school in Cass Lake, Minn., re-emerges this fall as a center for Indian ministries providing mentoring, biblical education and training in both ministry and life skills with the goal of preparing American Indian Christians to be leaders

A Tennessee high school, whose mascot is the Indians, takes the Native American motif one step further: It calls school grounds "The Reservation."

A federal appeals court that approved a plan for snowmaking on Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, sacred to Indian tribes, is giving opponents time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Montana fourth-grade teacher Roxanne Small Not Afraid has been named teacher of the year by the National Indian Education Association.

Spirit Lake Sioux will go see the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux play an exhibition hockey game with mixed feelings about the team name.

A federal judge in South Dakota has dismissed an indictment against a Canadian accused of killing American Indian activist Annie Mae Aquash in 1975.

The interactive gaming company RezWorld has an idea about reviving Native languages. It is a cross between the game Grand Theft Auto and old language textbooks.

Dean Anson has been carving sculptures from pieces of wood for more than four years, and has created nearly 100 sculptures. The Cherokee artist carves small pieces like eagles to extremely large pieces like buffalo and grizzly bears.

A modern sculptural interpretation of a Hopi symbol, a flute player, has been moved to a less prominent location at a state park in Utah after neighbors complained it was too anatomically correct.

University of Montana professor wins grant for her Indian Education for All program. She is director of the Montana Writing Project.

A federal report says that the restoration of the Everglades, long a goal of the Miccosukee Tribe of Indians and others, is not progressing and that the wetlands area is in peril.