
Landowner asks $3.9M for part of Wounded Knee site
One of the country's poorest Native American tribes wants to buy a historically significant piece of land where 300 of their ancestors were killed, ...

Senate approves anti-violence against women act
By a robust bipartisan majority, the Senate voted Tuesday to renew the Violence Against Women Act with new assurances that gays and lesbians, ...
Senate poised to renew Violence Against Women Act
Senators tussled Thursday over whether Indian authorities should be able to prosecute non-Indians in domestic abuse cases, an issue that has delayed ...

Senate tries again to move anti-violence bill
Senate Democrats, bolstered by Republican support, on Monday launched a new attempt to broaden a law protecting women from domestic abuse by expanding ...

1 officer killed, 2 wounded near La. casino
Police on Saturday arrested a man suspected of fatally shooting a police officer and critically wounding two sheriff's deputies after allegedly ...

American Indian gang trio face racketeering trial
Three members of a violent American Indian gang known for terrorizing people from the Twin Cities to reservations in greater Minnesota, Wisconsin and ...

3 Mont. tribal leaders indicted in singers' hunts
Three Blackfeet tribal leaders were indicted Tuesday on charges they held illegal big-game hunts for a film crew and country music stars including ...
Choctaw family devastated in Miss. SUV wreck
Funerals will be held this week for five young siblings and an adult who died when a sport utility vehicle driven by the children's father careened ...
5 children, 1 adult die in Mississippi wreck
Five young siblings and one adult died early Saturday when a sport utility vehicle went off an eastern Mississippi road and plunged into a ...
Gov't rolls out $1.9B Indian land buyback program
U.S. government officials said Tuesday they are launching a $1.9 billion Native American land buyback program now that a nearly 17-year lawsuit over ...
Court lets slaves' descendants sue Cherokee chief
Descendants of slaves owned by members of the Cherokee Nation can sue the current chief in an attempt to restore their tribal memberships, a federal ...

5 dead in Calif. Indian reservation shootings
The church bell that rings out to announce the deaths of tribal members on the Tule River Indian Reservation tolled repeatedly after a man went on a ...

Spending cuts shadow Obama meeting with tribes
Hours after talking tough against Republicans in "fiscal cliff" negotiations, President Barack Obama and members of his Cabinet reassured hundreds of ...

As Great Lakes plummet, towns try to save harbors
For more than a century, easy access to Lake Michigan has made Onekama a popular place for summer visitors and a refuge for boaters fleeing dangerous ...