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Tribal members congregate in late January each year at the burial ground near the Bear River where soldiers felled hundreds of their ancestors in one of American history's bloodiest — but least remembered — massacres.

Gang activity and teen suicide on American Indian reservations need to be addressed together, according to a national gang expert who says there's a strong connection between the two problems.

"Mr. Las Vegas" Wayne Newton is asking Virginia legislators to grant state recognition to his Indian tribe.

Sonny Brave Eagle and his family spent six days in the dark without a phone or working radio before law officers found them in their home after a fierce winter storm cut power across South Dakota's impoverished Cheyenne River Indian Reservation.

An Alaska Native group will continue its traditional winter burials this year despite a conflict with a local cemetery that made headlines in October. That situation highlights the variations in Native burial customs.