Indian Reservation of the United States

"An environmental time bomb" sounds like the right kind of language.

The building in Seattle is slated for sale, a move that could deprive indigenous people in the Pacific north-west of access to critical documents

Native Americans around the country have high hopes that Deb Haaland, nominated by president-elect Joe Biden to become the first Native American cabinet secretary, could help reset the fraught relationship between the U.S. government and Indigenous peoples.

For the last few years, Native friends have shared their Christmas plans and traditions with Smithsonian Voices. This extraordinary year, we asked how the Covid-19 pandemic is affecting people's families and communities. The introduction of Christianity to the Americas can be controversial in Native circles. Europeans knowingly replaced Native people's existing spiritual beliefs with the beliefs taught in the…

PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) — One new COVID-19 death was reported along with another large decrease in active coronavirus cases in Thursday's update from the South Dakota Department of Health. The death toll is now at 1,301. There have been 355 deaths reported in December. The new death was listed as a woman in the 70-79 […]

President-elect Joe Biden has tapped Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland, a Native American congresswoman from New Mexico, to serve as interior secretary in a historic pick for a department that oversees the country's vast natural resources, including tribal lands.

WILMINGTON, Del. (Reuters) -President-Elect Joe Biden will nominate Representative Deb Haaland to serve as his Interior Secretary, according to a person...

The Leech Lake band worked with local governments, electric utilities and co-ops to settle possible right-of-way disputes to get a measure through Congress. It now awaits President Trump's signature.

On election night, Jodi Owings and her family watched the results reported live on television in their Oklahoma home.

There is no way to separate the emergencies of the pandemic from the preexisting structural conditions forged by America's legacy of broken trust responsibilities.

The Constitution says that for reallocating House seats, the census must count the "whole number of persons" in each state. But Trump wants to subtract undocumented immigrants.

Almost all construction was designed to replace existing barriers. But it's not clear what Biden will do next.

Indigenous leaders call for Biden to name Deb Haaland to head the Department of the Interior. She would be the first-ever Native American Cabinet member.

The spotlight on the oil-producing state comes as the president-elect appears primed to pick a New Mexico Democrat to be his interior secretary.

Voting rights advocates had long argued that if Native Americans and other minority groups were mobilized, they could be decisive in a tight race. Voter...

In an attempt to alleviate some of the staffing concerns, Burgum announced that the state health officer has amended an order that will allow health care workers with asymptomatic cases of COVID-19 to continue working in hospitals' COVID-19 units. The Republican governor said hospital administrators asked the state to take the extraordinary step.

Indigenous and Native American voters played a key role in Biden's narrow margins in swing states.

Kamala Harris will be the first woman and the first woman of color to serve as vice president, but not the first person of color.

People who live on America's 326 Indian reservations often have a harder time voting due to bad roads and lack of formal addresses. The pandemic is adding challenges.

Even Native American veterans of the two world wars were denied their rights in a country they'd fought for and that was built on land their ancestors had inhabited for centuries.