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President's spending plan includes a $4 billion proposal for the Indian Health Service and a $100 million increase to the Bureau of Indian Affairs. While calling the blueprint 'promising,' Native leaders caution that crucial details won't be known until April.

The Senate passed an amendment Tuesday that calls for an apology to Native Americans on behalf of the government for its past misdeeds. But is an apology really what is needed when our health care, our security, our children's lives are at stake?

The Wyoming Indian High School Chiefs, from the Wind River Reservation, won the Wyoming class 2-A state championship.

While nearly 1/3 of children in the US are overweight or obese – a rate that has tripled in adolescents and more than doubled in younger children since 1980 – the overweight/obesity rate is even higher among AI/AN children, approaching 50%.

All evacuated Havasupai tribal members return home, but tribe says tourists won't be allowed back until flooded trails, bridges and other damage are repaired.