This sprawling Pine Ridge Indian Reservation is a Connecticut-sized zone of prairie and poverty, where the have-nots are defined less by the money the...
The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 04.24.2012
Lately, payday lenders have been linking up with Native American tribes as a way to sidestep U.S. law. Federal authorities seem less and less willi...
Tim Giago | Posted 04.29.2012
In South Dakota where the total population of Native Americans is about 12 percent, there is not now, nor has there ever been, a Native American appointed to the position of state or federal judge.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 04.11.2012
While winter has spared remote areas of Minnesota this year, proposed budget cuts will slam the North Country if the U.S. Post Office abandons its location in Ponsford.
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Posted 10.05.2011
This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch. By Kelley Weiss Mothers around the state are finding it almost impossible to collect chil...
Jay Tavare | Posted 08.23.2011
The air smelled of smoke from the fires raging in the Southwest, but foremost in my mind was excitement to see my friends and family on the reservation. Whenever I make a trip to the Apache rez, it is their love that always leaves me humbled.
Jay Tavare | Posted 06.16.2011
Traditions, language and spiritual beliefs of so many of the American Indian nations are almost completely extinguished. Is it any wonder that the youth find themselves in an identity crisis?
Jay Tavare | Posted 05.25.2011
I couldn't make up a more gripping story than this. This tragic saga is real life, here in America. And it is happening now.
High Country News | Jonathan Thompson | Posted 05.25.2011
Less than a century ago, the Southern Utes were barely hanging on, squeezed onto an unremarkable sliver of reservation land, a new and foreign way of ...
Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011
By Tim Giago (Nanwica Kciji) © 2010 Native Sun News Prohibition doesn't work! It lasted 13 years in America and gave life to nationally syndicated ...
Lisa Jones | Posted 11.17.2011
The Arapaho have never lived outside the cycles of cause and effect. Nothing has, except perhaps my own culture, whose tech savvy has allowed us to absent ourselves while we mine the place dry.
Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011
In a tight race in South Dakota, the Indian vote is usually the decider. The Stephanie Herseth-Sandlin vs. Kristi Noem race is shaping up to be that kind of a race.
Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011
Within our own country, blizzards have left people without water, power and basic services. People are dying, and yet, our own broadcast media doesn't see fit to cover this? I don't get it.
wsj.com | JOEL MILLMAN | Posted 05.25.2011
WARM SPRINGS, Ore. -- Police Chief Carmen Smith says he knows three things about suspected drug trafficker Artemio Corona: He's from Mexico, prefers a...
AP | BEN FELLER | Posted 05.25.2011
WASHINGTON — President Barack Obama assured American Indians on Thursday that they have a place in his White House and on his agenda, telling tr...
Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011
Indian casino profits go to economic development, college scholarships, schools, road and building maintenance and improvement, health care, daycare for children and more.
Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011
The advantages of becoming an Independent are many and the detractions few. It is something I encourage all Native American voters to look into, to thoroughly research, and to openly consider.
Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011
One year, I believe it was 1951; my brother and my cousins, "Red Tapio" and Sonny Torres were cast in a movie called "Tomahawk," and it starred Van Heflin, Rock Hudson, and Susan Ball. Of course Tony, Red and Sonny were the Indians.
Jeff Biggers | Posted 05.25.2011
Recognizing that poverty rates on reservations are twice the national average, Native groups called for support to "operate a new crop of renewable electricity generating infrastructure."
Mark Evitt | Posted 05.25.2011
There's no question the Times' gambling story is damaging. It tells how McCain gleefully investigated rivals during the probe into lobbyist Jack Abramoff's dealings with American Indian tribes.
Tim Giago | Posted 05.25.2011
If nothing else, the money lost by the Indian people of South Dakota by the money market collapse should be news. If it rocked America, it certainly rocked the "poorest of the poor."
Rebecca Ford | Posted 05.25.2011
With over 38,000 registered voters, the residents of Navajo Nation in the southwest are being courted by McCain and Obama. After 140 years, said one man, "a minority president might change things."
AP | DAVID B. CARUSO | Posted 05.25.2011
NEW YORK — The big cigarette tax increases that many states are instituting to balance their out-of-whack budgets are raising fears that the tre...
nytimes.com | NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF | Posted 05.10.2012