The Latest Breaking News on Native America

SEATTLE — More than 5,000 miles separate Deming in Whatcom County, Washington, where the Nooksack River rushes out of the North Cascades, and the Palais des Nations in Geneva, where the United Nations Human Rights Council is headquartered.

A man who intentionally disturbed a newborn bison calf and caused its death is being sought by Yellowstone National Park law enforcement.

What’s at stake is the process for protecting our air, water and land from what may be irreparable environmental harm. The fight is so important that House Speaker Kevin McCarthy has tied it to the debt ceiling crisis, Ben Jealous writes.

Arizona, California and Nevada on Monday proposed a deal to significantly cut their water use from the drought-stricken Colorado River over the next three years

It didn't take long for a team of highway archaeologists to mark their first find while searching for buried human remains on an aging stretch of U.S. Highway 395 that cuts along the eastern flank of the Sierra Nevada range.

Raymond Mattia of the Tohono O’odham Nation in southern Arizona was shot by agents after calling them for assistance

Brazilian authorities have charged the former chief of the country’s Indigenous protection agency for his role in the 2022 killings of British journalist Dom Phillips and renowned Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira.

"Coyote wants money," Mollie (Lily Gladstone), a young Osage Nation woman, notes sagely when feckless WW1 returnee Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) starts courting her in early 1920s Oklahoma, the setting for Martin Scorsese’s period epic. He’s a former infantry cook with no cash or discernible talent; she’s a hugely wealthy…

Director Martin Scorsese explores infamous spate of US killings driven by a quest to usurp Indigenous resource rights.