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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.

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.

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.