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The U.S. Department of Justice last week adopted a new policy saying American Indian tribes can grow and sell marijuana on sovereign tribal lands, as long as those tribes follow the same federal rules laid out for states that allow recreational marijuana use and possession....
The Department of Justice announced last week it would no longer enforce federal marijuana laws on Native lands, which theoretically opened the door for tribes to pass the same sort of progressive pot legislation that some states have. But some are asking why the DOJ took that step when it's not clear that the tribes themselves want to legalize the stuff....
Former Navajo Nation President and current Arizona State Rep. Albert Hale was pulled over last month for driving while intoxicated to the slightest degree by AZDPS....
MANDERSON –– “Cante tiza, blihiciya, na wocunze” were some of the Lakota words of wisdom shared with the newly elected officials of the Oglala Sioux Tribe at their inaugural ceremony in Manderson, Friday, Dec. 12 at the Wounded Knee School gym....
FARGO, North Dakota — A woman accused of child abuse on the Spirit Lake Indian Reservation has been sentenced to eight months in prison....
Yesterday the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa held a referendum election with each question passing easily....
The Chippewa Cree Tribal Court has invalidated a recent election after it was discovered a non-tribal member was allowed to vote in the election....
DES MOINES — An industry-commissioned study has found that Iowa’s 18 state-licensed gaming casinos account for $2.5 billion in economic activity, support 16,798 jobs that pay nearly $742 million in wages and generate $726 million in federal, state and local tax revenues, including $321.6 million in state gaming taxes....
A man who crawled through a window to rescue a toddler from a burning home on a remote Manitoba First Nation says he's still haunted by the baby he wasn't able to save....
Details are still scant on this morning's traffic collission-turned-conflict in which a suspect was fatally shot by a California Highway Patrol officer after allegedly attacking the officer with a deadly weapon. The following press release from the Hoopa Valley Tribe identifies the deceased as a tribal member:...
HOOPA, Calif. - Hoopa Valley Tribal Chairwoman Danielle Vigil-Masten expressed her condolences to those affected by the fatal altercation early this morning in Willow Creek....
PHILADELPHIA, Miss. - The trial of three people in the death of 37-year-old man on the Choctaw Indian Reservation in east Mississippi has been rescheduled for Feb. 5....
MISSOULA, Mont. - A federal investigator says the Chippewa Cree Tribe is being required to pay up front for work on a 50-mile water pipeline after tribal officials and companies were convicted on corruption charges related to the project....