
A Native American tale with international pedigree
It took an international production starring a Puerto Rican and a Frenchman to bring the Native American tale "Jimmy P.: Psychotherapy of a Plains ...
New secretary lays out agenda for Native Americans
Interior Secretary Sally Jewell told a Senate panel Wednesday that "Indian education is embarrassing" as she laid out her priorities on issues ...

Prison for ex-dictator soothes Guatemala
Former Guatemalan dictator Efrain Rios Montt spent his first full day as a convict Saturday in a 16-by-13 foot cell with a small bed, bathroom and ...

Ex-dictator convicted of genocide in Guatemala
Former dictator Efrain Rios Montt's conviction of genocide is a historic moment in a country still healing from a brutal, three-decade civil war and ...

Thousands turn out for nation's largest powwow
A thunderous, rhythmic roar of jingling bells and beating drums rumbled through University of New Mexico Arena on Friday as hundreds of Native ...

New Orleans Jazz Fest features living legends
If there's a theme to this year's New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, it may be living legends. Headliners include B.B. King, Billy Joel, Willie ...

Lawyer: Inspectors clear NM horse slaughterhouse
About 5 miles from this southeastern New Mexico town's famed UFO museum, tucked between dairy farms, is a nondescript metal building that could be ...

Feds halt funding for $361M pipeline
Federal officials temporarily stopped funding a $361 million water pipeline for a Native American reservation in Montana after learning that millions ...

Judge sides with sons about Jim Thorpe's remains
The two surviving children of sports great Jim Thorpe won a critical ruling Friday in federal court that could clear the way for his remains to be ...

Actor Wes Studi to be in Western 'Hall of Greats'
Actor Wes Studi is set to become the second Native American inducted into the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum's Hall of Great Western ...

To save endangered languages, tribes turn to tech
In a windowless conference room in a Las Vegas casino, about three dozen people are swishing their fingers across iPads, trying out test versions of ...

High court wrestles with Indian adoption dispute
The Supreme Court is trying to sort out a wrenching adoption case involving a Native American child, a biological father who first renounced any ...

As protesters jeer, Hopi masks sell in Paris
In a chaotic auction repeatedly interrupted by protests, dozens of Native American tribal masks were sold Friday after a French court ignored the ...
French judge to rule if Hopi masks can be sold
Is there such a thing as too sacred to sell? That's the question a French judge could answer Friday in a potentially landmark decision in Paris on ...
Arizona tribe seeks artifacts up for auction
An Arizona tribe is asking a Paris auction house to cancel its upcoming sale of dozens of items central to the tribe's religious practices and return ...

Holy Week pilgrims visit NM shrine under new pope
Tens of thousands of pilgrims are expected during Easter weekend to visit El Santuario de Chimayo, one of the most popular Catholic shrines in the ...

Feds say Native Mob gang dented but work remains
Federal prosecutors say they've weakened a violent American Indian gang known for terrorizing people in the Upper Midwest now that an alleged leader ...

3 convicted in Minnesota Indian gang trial
Three alleged members of a violent American Indian gang known for terrorizing people in the Upper Midwest were convicted Tuesday in what authorities ...

Law gives tribes new authority over non-Indians
American Indian tribes have tried everything from banishment to charging criminal acts as civil offenses to deal with non-Indians who commit crimes ...

Obama signs expanded Violence Against Women Act
President Barack Obama signed expanded protections for domestic violence victims into law Thursday, renewing a measure credited with curbing attacks ...

TV show jokes about alcoholism among Ariz. tribes
Arizona tribal members say they're shocked by a television sitcom that made fun of one of the most pervasive social ills on American Indian ...

Congress passes bill renewing anti-violence law
House Republicans raised the white flag Thursday on extending domestic violence protections to gays, lesbians and transsexuals after months of ...
House to take up Senate's anti-violence act
Congress appeared on a course to renew the expired Violence Against Women Act after House Republican leaders on Tuesday agreed to take up a version ...
Republicans offer deal on American Indian courts
Several House Republicans on Wednesday proposed legislation on Native American courts that could lay the groundwork for a compromise on the stalled ...

Rihanna, Issa light up London Fashion Week
London Fashion Week moved into high international gear Saturday with a debut collection from Barbadian pop diva Rihanna, a Native American-inspired ...