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President Obama visited the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Scott Davis, director of the North Dakota Indian Affairs Commission, about his visit...
The POTUS and FLOTUS went up to the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota and South Dakota yesterday, where they partook in cultural celebrations and chatted with tribal youth and others about growing up on a reservation and other challenges the community faces. This is the first time President Obama has visited Indian Country since 2008 and the third time a US president has visited in nearly 80 years....
Waubgeshig Rice: I learned all about being Anishinaabe from my dad John, or Zaagaasige as he's known in the language. Since that's how I identify and try to carry myself daily, it's the most important knowledge that I have. When my parents found out I was coming, they made the decision to leave Ottawa and move back to his home community of Wasauksing so that I (and my forthcoming brothers) could be raised in the culture....
A brush fire erupted Saturday, June 14, in the foothills north of Interstate 10 and the Morongo Indian Reservation near Cabazon, fire officials said....
Campo, Calif. - Sheriff's homicide detectives announced Saturday that they have arrested Patrick Pablo in connection with the death of 23-year-old Teddy Pablo on the Campo Indian Reservation....
The B.C. government has signed an agreement with First Nations groups pledging to end violence against aboriginal women and girls....
FLAGSTAFF – The Navajo Nation's Head Start program has weathered enrollment drops, decreased funding and a shutdown after a federal review found wide-ranging threats to children's safety. Now, it's on the rebound....
The Law Society of Alberta says a Calgary lawyer revictimized his aboriginal clients and treated them like cattle....
President Obama toured the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North Dakota on Friday, marking his first visit to Indian Country since his 2008 campaign—and his first since signing two bills into law that were in large part aimed at better protecting Native American women from violent crimes on tribal lands....
(Wind River Reservation, Wyo.) — Northern Arapaho leaders today urged tribal members to show restraint while the anti-Indian group Citizens Equal Rights Alliance (CERA) rallies in Riverton this weekend, a news release from the tribe stated....
CANNON BALL, N.D. — This isolated town nestled in the undulating prairie of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribal Nation is so small, its only formal sign is a boulder spray-painted with “C. Ball.” But Friday afternoon, it briefly became the center of the American political world when President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama visited....
CANNON BALL, N.D. — President Barack Obama on Friday became only the third U.S. sitting president in eight decades to set foot in Indian Country, encountering both the wonder of Native American culture and the struggle of tribal life on a breeze-whipped afternoon in the prairie. Amid snapping flags and colorful, befeathered dancers, Obama declared that there was more the U.S. could do to help Native Americans....
President Obama said relations between the U.S. government and tribal leaders were "stronger than ever" during his first visit to Indian Country since becoming president. Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/209378-obama-us-relations-with-tribal-leaders-stronger-than-ever#ixzz34newpd4q Follow us: @thehill on Twitter | TheHill on Facebook...
In his first visit to Indian County since winning the White House, President Barack Obama today will announce new efforts to improve schooling for the tens of thousands of American Indian students who attend federally funded schools both on and off reservations....
On his visit to the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe in North Dakota today, President Obama is using his first stop at a Native American reservation while in office to highlight the challenges Native Americans face. In an op-ed published in Indian Country Today, Obama called the poverty and high school dropout rates among Native Americans “a moral call to action....
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced $70 million in funding available during Fiscal Year 2014 to tribal communities across the nation to improve housing conditions and stimulate community development for low and moderate income families. The grants are available through HUD’s Indian Community Development Block Grant (ICDBG) Program for a wide variety of community development and affordable housing activities. Read HUD’s ICDBG Notice of Funding Availability (NOFA). The purpose of the ICDBG program is to develop viable I...
When John Chisel was just 6 months old, the little boy from Lac Seul First Nation was diagnosed with Kawasaki Disease. It's a rare condition that causes inflammation throughout the body, and in particular the coronary arteries. If doctors catch it early, they can manage the illness....
Bart Wayne Volen, 54, pleaded guilty Thursday in federal court in Sacramento to defrauding the United Auburn Indian Community of more than $17 million....
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A Shiprock man will serve time in a federal prison for throwing a knife and stabbing a tribal police officer in the foot....
