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The limiting principle presented in Lopez would likely not meet her threshold.

DENVER — Donna Chrisjohn began visiting the Denver Museum of Nature & Science at age 6 with her history-loving parents. The North American Indian Cultures Hall, which has been there for 45 years, was of particular interest since Chrisjohn has Sicangu Lakota and Diné ancestry.

A white couple challenged an adoption law that protects Native children. Thankfully, the conservative court didn’t buy their argument

Justices Gorsuch and Alito have diametrically opposite perspectives on Indian Tribes

Justice Thomas would place the burden on the government, and follow a presumption of liberty.

A federal judge has given Enbridge three years to shut down a section of an oil and gas pipeline that crosses reservation land

Kambo, a secretion used in tribal cleansing ceremonies, has been implicated in deaths worldwide and experts are sounding the alarm

Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s majority opinion for the Supreme Court in Haaland v. Brackeen is conservative in the good, old-fashioned sense of the word. In upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act, the court reaffirmed precedent and declined an invitation to revolutionize the law with a reactionary constitutional holding. Along the…

The wooden "sun masks," which date back to the mid-15th century, were handed over at the presidential palace during a visit to Berlin by Colombian President Gustavo Petro

Wooden artefacts dating from 15th century and bought from indigenous people were treated with pesticides while in museum

These patterns represent a litany of violations of the public’s constitutional rights, the report finds