The Latest Breaking News on Native America

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the landmark federal adoption law that seeks to keep Native American children with tribal families.

LOS ANGELES — The nonprofit behind the annual Sundance Film Festival has received its largest endowment ever — totaling $4 million — to fund programs meant to boost Indigenous filmmakers from California tribes.

The Indigenous adolescents danced in a circle under the thatched-roof hut from nearly dawn to dusk while parents looked on from the perimeter

Seven award-winning films about Indigenous sky stories are now open for personal downloads, or for planetariums to share the traditional knowledge with students.

Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch says Navajo law enforcement teams that fanned out over metro Phoenix in recent weeks made contact with several hundred Native Americans from various tribes living on the streets amid a state crackdown on Medicaid fraud that recruited them to unlicensed sober living homes

A custody battle has broken out among relatives of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and 40 harrowing days alone in the Amazon rainforest

A bench trial has begung in Fargo in the federal lawsuit brought last year by two Native American tribes challenging North Dakota's redistricting map the GOP-led Legislature approved in 2021

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen deepened his Indigenous knowledge recently with a traditional ceremony known as the vision quest. It was folded into his moon mission training.

Siblings, who spent more than 40 days in Amazon after plane crash in early May, told of mother’s death when search party arrived