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The Biden administration floated two ideas this week for how Western states and Native American tribes could reduce their water use from the dwindling Colorado River

LAS VEGAS — A Las Vegas judge has dismissed a drug trafficking charge against an alleged cult leader accused of sexually assaulting and grooming Native American women and girls.

Native American activist Winona LaDuke has resigned as executive director of the Indigenous-led environmental group Honor the Earth after the organization lost a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by a former employee

Today, tourists from all over the world flock to Nevada to experience selective amnesia. “What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas,” the slogan goes. But Las Vegas’ culture of forgetting is more than drunken hijinks. The city’s existence depends on forgetting the colonial violence that made the Southwest. Since becoming…

A judge in Montana refused to dismiss a lawsuit that alleges the state’s unique constitutional requirement to teach students about Native American history and culture has not been upheld

Other lives: Scholar of Native American literature whose many books celebrated the writing of peoples across the continent

An effort to sell a 600-year-old human skull at a rural North Carolina auction house was abruptly halted over the weekend after a group of opponents led by Native Americans intervened.

Heather Rae has identified as Native American throughout her career but public family records don’t show any evidence of it

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