Rare Yakama language now taught at University of Oregon
When his foreign language instructor says something, University of Oregon freshman Carson Viles knows it’s important to pay attention. “I might ne...
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When his foreign language instructor says something, University of Oregon freshman Carson Viles knows it’s important to pay attention. “I might ne...
Court ruling on cigarette taxes favors Cayuga Indian Nation
A state appellate court on Wednesday ruled the Cayuga Indian Nation cannot be criminally charged for not paying cigarette taxes at its Finger Lakes st...
Search for Montana family goes on
The search for a missing family continues this week with ground searches. Teddy and Juliet Little Light and their infant son, Wyatt, have not been hea...
U.S Supreme Court rejects land-into-trust case
The administration of President Barack Obama received some good news on Wednesday with the end of a potentially troublesome land-into-trust case. The ...
Hearing begins in Reno on disputed gold mine
RENO, Nev. — Western Shoshone tribal members packed a Reno courtroom Tuesday, trying to persuade a federal judge to halt at least part of a huge...
Canadian chiefs deliver warning to Obama’s transition team
WASHINGTON – Several chiefs from Canada’s First Nations recently traveled to the nation’s capital to meet with members of President Barack Obama...
Unsolved murders on tribal land to be reopened
More than 15 years has passed since Shari Dee Sampson Elwell’s strangled and sexually mutilated body was found in a remote area of the Yakama re...
Time, nature threaten Louisiana island and Native American tribe
ISLE DE JEAN CHARLES, La. — There was a time, people here remember, when groves of Cypress trees stretched to the horizon and the underbrush shook w...
First Nations could benefit from Alaska Highway pipeline
A Canadian company that’s in the running to build a natural gas pipeline along the Alaska Highway says it won’t get involved with land cla...
Suspect in Aquash murder ordered to remain in custody
A federal Magistrate on Friday ordered that a Rapid City man charged in connection with the 1975 murder of an American Indian Movement member remain i...
