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Nordstrom is famously forgiving when shoppers change their minds about purchases....
WASHINGTON — Federal health experts are taking a second look this week at the heart safety of pain medications used by millions of Americans to treat arthritis and other everyday aches and pains....
People in Attawapiskat will take on the difficult subject of suicide this week....
An Indian tribe that wants to build an 800-million dollar casino project in southeast Wisconsin has a new leader....
For many women Feb. 14 each year means boxes of chocolate and dinner with their special someone. But for thousands, Feb. 14 is set aside as a day to remember the hundreds of missing and murdered Native American and First Nations women. Every year, hundreds of Native women go missing. Most of them are kidnapped near or on Native land. Some of the women are lead to believe they will find better lives in the big cites. Most of these women will be sold into the international sex trade. Others will be raped, murdered, or left for dead. The Native...
Fredericks Peebles & Morgan LLP, a national tribal law firm announced this week a victory in the state of California for two Tribal online lenders: the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma and the Santee Sioux Nation of Nebraska. The California Court of Appeals has affirmed the dismissal of a suit by the State of California against online lenders owned by the two federally recognized Indian tribes. The suit was an attempt by the State to shut down the sovereign Tribes’ online lending businesses and impose penalties for alleged failure to comply with the C...
A pair of lawmakers plan to send a strongly worded letter to the National Football League, urging it to change the name of the Washington Redskins or perhaps face the risk of losing its tax-exempt status....
Prior Lake, Minn. – In the wake of widespread propane shortages and excessive costs this winter, the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) today announced three grants to the Standing Rock, Yankton, and Santee Sioux tribes to help them purchase propane for tribal members. The price of propane has risen dramatically since last year, leaving many tribal families struggling to pay for their heat during this extra-cold winter....
New Mexico is part of an exclusive club it does not want to belong to: 10 states where fewer than 50 percent of American Indians living in or near tribal areas are employed....
When voters in Washington state and Colorado voted to legalize marijuana for recreational use in 2012, the states became the first places in the world, let alone the U.S., to legally allow adults 21 years of age and older to buy and consume marijuana within the state’s jurisdiction....
PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) – An Oglala Sioux tribal committee has started a process that could allow a public vote on whether to legalize marijuana use on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) - An American Indian reservation in the Dakotas that has been hard hit by the nation's propane shortage is getting help from the Shakopee Mdewakanton (mehd-WAH'-kuh-tuhn) Sioux....