Tribes aren't allowed to apply for a share of the Rural Health Transformation Program, which is the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care, and must rely on states to share funds with them ...
A proposal by the Crow tribal chair could dramatically change who counts as a Crow tribal member under the “blood quantum” standard, a concept created by White settlers and rooted in assimilation ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Gabe Galanda, an Indigenous rights lawyer and citizen of the Round Valley Tribe, says systemic ...
PORCUPINE — For the past few weeks, Oitancan “Oi” Zephier has labored among piles of vinyl records nearly 2 feet high. KILI-FM, the Porcupine, South Dakota-based tribal public broadcasting station ...
Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans’ disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X George Little Wound was gravely ill when he was sent home to Pine Ridge from the Carlisle Indian ...
The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo. In fact, Omeasoo’s comfort level and lack of squeamishness convinced her to pursue studies in ...
WASHINGTON – This won’t be an easy conversation: Can tribal nations love mining? Or at least accept mining as a necessary step in the creation of a clean economy? And can governments and international ...
WOUNDED KNEE, South Dakota — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed each night in a frontline bunker ...
Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Which way now? Pacific lamprey aggregate below a migration barrier in the Columbia River Basin.
SEATTLE — Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been ...
The sunset on one presidential administration ushers in the dawn of another. The unpredictable political storm in the nation’s capital begins to slow in anticipation of a new head of state, and a new ...