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Two men who falsely claimed to be tribal members sold counterfeit Native American art at galleries in downtown Seattle, officials said. Both are separately facing federal charges.

DENVER (AP) — A lawyer for four women who were temporarily banned from the Ute Indian Tribe’s reservation in Utah asked a federal appeals court on Tuesday to revive a lawsuit challenging their punishment...

The project will begin in the first quarter of 2021 and is expected to last ten months.

A new law that transfers coastal property from the State of California to Native Americans will be a historic first. Mendocino tribes could take…

The Passamaquoddy’s purchase of Pine Island for $355,000 is the latest in a series of successful ‘land back’ campaigns for indigenous people in the US

Amber Ortega, a Southern Arizona border activist facing two federal charges for protesting the construction of the border wall near Quitobaquito Springs, was found not guilty by a judge on Wednesday.

A Minnesota agency has appealed a federal judge's dismissal of its bid to end a case pitting it against a Native American tribe that sued, in tribal court, over a permit the agency granted Enbridge for its Line 3 oil pipeline replacement project, a Monday filing in federal appeals court showed.

Jessica Reznicek, who pleaded guilty to sabotaging the Dakota Access Pipeline, said at a sentencing hearing that she's turned her life around.

A North Dakota-based organization this week sued Colorado for banning American Indian school mascots earlier this year, arguing the state shouldn’t outlaw culturally sensitive uses of Native …

Here are the materials in Ute Indian Tribe v. Dept. of the Interior (D.D.C.): 57 Second Amended Complaint 67 State Motion to Dismiss 68 US Motion to Dismiss 69 US Motion to Transfer 70-1 Water Dist…

DENVER (AP) — Colorado Gov. Jared Polis on Tuesday rescinded a 19th century proclamation that called for citizens to kill Native Americans and take their property, in what he hopes can begin to make amends for “sins of the past.”

Deb Haaland, a Laguna Pueblo Native American, has been confirmed as Interior secretary. She's also the nation's first Indigenous Cabinet member.

Interior secretary from New Mexico will be responsible for US’s land, seas and national resources

The ruling reverses a the Third Circuit Court of Appeals decision that held New Jersey could block construction on conservation land. Industry praised the decision; PennEast opponents vowed to continue their fight.

The Choctaw Nation is overhauling the software used by its tribal courts to give both the local government and its residents a more modern experience.

Gov. Kevin Stitt’s commission to sort out Oklahoma’s future is stacked with oil and gas insiders — and has no Indigenous voices.

From the Grand Canyon to Mount Rushmore, if the routinely flouted U.S. treaties with Indigenous people were honored, this would be a very different country.

NEW YORK — Dakota Access oil pipeline’s operators plan to ask the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene in its ongoing legal battle to keep the 570,000…

BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — The sponsor of the Keystone XL crude oil pipeline pulled the plug on the contentious project Wednesday after Canadian officials failed to persuade President Joe Biden to reverse his cancellation of its permit on the day he took office.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — After President Joe Biden revoked Keystone XL’s presidential permit and shut down construction of the long-disputed pipeline that was to carry oil from Canada to Texas, opponents of other pipelines hoped the projects they’ve been fighting would be next...

Democrats’ climate record is mixed – and it’s largely pressure from Indigenous and environmental groups that’s pushed them to act

The DA says eight people who avoided jail completed more than 320 hours of community service.

Native peoples in the U.S. are often citizens of both the United States and of autonomous Native nations. That makes Native environmental justice issues more complex.

A leading United Nations human rights body has issued a report blasting the United States for its systematic abrogation of its treaties with Native Americans, stealing of reservation land, and the loss of billions of dollars of Native American money, among other things. It demanded that the United States grant American Indians and Native Hawai’ians the same basic protections under U.S. law that it grants to nonindigenous Americans.

A novel lawsuit is taking advantage of a local ‘rights of nature’ measure passed in November in effort to protect wetlands

Violence is on the rise at a North Dakota reservation. And tribal officers are often powerless to stop it.

Despite a legal obligation of the United States to provide health care to Native Americans, this group faces significant inequity in health care compared to other U.S. populations.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — A lawsuit that accuses the federal government of failing to adequately provide for students on a small, isolated reservation in Arizona is set to go to trial in...

José Francisco Cali Tzay (Maya Kaqchikel), a longtime defender of Indigenous rights, completed his term on the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) on January 19, 2020. The CERD is the Treaty Monitoring Body for the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (ICERD), and one of nine International Human Rights Treaties within the UN system. The ICERD is legally-binding for the 175 countries (State parties) which have ratified it to date.

Elizabeth Reese, Stanford Law School’s first Native American professor, discusses the intentional marginalization of tribal legal structures.