The federal government can confer health care, education, housing and casino rights, but for small bands like many in the ...

Earlier this week, President Trump drastically downsized two national monuments in Utah: Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears ...

California recently gave back a beloved stretch of California’s rugged coastline to a group of Native American tribes — and ...

Long before Europeans arrived, North America was shaped by powerful civilizations built on trade, agriculture, and warfare. Climate shifts, internal conflict, and changing technology fractured these ...

In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court rejected Oklahoma's attempt to prosecute crimes committed on a reservation by an Indian. Henceforth, the tribe, not the state, would have jurisdiction ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is on the verge of full federal recognition after the Senate on Dec. 17 approved a $900 billion defense policy bill, titled the National Defense Authorization Act.

A new bill introduced in U.S. Congress would authorize Native American tribes in Southwest Washington to kill some of the sea ...

The largest proposed tribal water rights settlement in U.S. history – which could transform some Native American communities ...

The data center boom has roiled communities across the country, but on Native land, a Big Tech push for quick approvals has ...

For millennia, the power of this place has shaped tribal identity and connected the people to the land and to the river that ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S.