The Latest Breaking News on Native America

Translation into Nheengatu hailed as a historical moment for the country and its native populations

In Manipur, three women were stripped and paraded by a mob in May. Police have now registered a case of gang-rape and abduction and will soon make arrests.

“Nutshimit,” which means “the interior of the land,” is Innu poet Joséphine Bacon’s favourite word because it is intimately linked to Innu identity. Nutshimit, the place where the Innu soul is deposited, is what created the links with the land that have ensured the survival and cultural and social development…

An Arizona woman thought she was doing the right thing.

In the U.S., most consumers take clean and available fresh water for granted, and water usually becomes front-page news only when there’s a crisis. And the past year has seen its share of water-related crises, whether it’s the effects of a prolonged drought in the U.S. Southwest or floods that…

A 69-year-old man has been sentenced to 78 months in prison for his role in a fraud scheme that led to a federally recognized American Indian tribe in Michigan losing more than $1 million, authorities announced Monday.

Archaeologists have been gingerly digging up the ground at a site in central Louisiana this summer to unearth and preserve evidence of prehistoric occupation

A Manitoba court recently granted police authority to clear a blockade set up by demonstrators near the Brady Road landfill just outside Winnipeg. Indigenous activists and supporters gathered to protest the province’s decision not to fund a search for the bodies of Indigenous women believed to be at Prairie Green…

The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has denied the latest bid by conservationists and tribal leaders to block construction of a huge lithium mine already in the works along the Nevada-Oregon line

Kuki-Zou CSOs divided on specifics of separation from Manipur. ITLF seeks separate State/UT, Zomi Council wants to discuss specifics in negotiations. Hmar Inpui re-affirms identity, tilts towards Zomi Council

Dedication of the 3-mile loop to Winston Walker comes after a push to make national parks more inclusive