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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Tim Smith, the clandestine star of Discovery's unexpected reality hit "Moonshiners," doesn't have anything against the growing legion of legal distillers who are plying their brands at your local liquor store....
PORTLAND, Ore., July 18, 2013 -- /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Indian Child Welfare Association today issued the following statement in response to yesterday's South Carolina Supreme Court decision on the Baby Veronica case: Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2013/07/18/5576943/national-indian-child-welfare.html#storylink=cpy...
The Assembly of First Nations has unanimously passed an emergency resolution condemning nutritional experiments done on aboriginal people including children in residential schools in the 1940s and 1950s....
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. -- The Spirit Lake Nation is now without a chairman after Roger Yankton was removed from that office by a preliminary decision from an appeals court....
Centuries ago, tribes gave up much of their land to the federal government in exchange for promises of funded health care, education and housing. Time and time again those funds have been cut. The sequestration has been no exception....
The history of North American Indians still raises many questions in the scientific world. The culture of this people remains a mystery, and its origins are mysterious because lack of evidence as to who was their ancestor. Scientists know little about the surviving descendants of Indian tribes. Recently, however, anthropologists found some of them....
GREAT FALLS - Bryon Farmer, a Blackfeet tribal member arrested for allegedly making defamatory comments on Facebook about his nation's leaders, is speaking out....
Five homes at Sioux Valley First Nation have been hit by what residents are calling a tornado, which Environment Canada is still investigating....
An amateur video appears to show a resident of a Quebec reserve being beaten by police officers....
A video of a man being beaten by two Quebec police officers has promoted anger in the First Nations community of Unamen Shipu....
The Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe on July 12 released the following statement regarding the current audit of its tribal police department. The statement is from Melanie Benjamin, Chief Executive of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe....
The possible removal of 14 school board members from their elected positions has been put on hold through a motion directive by Navajo Board of Election Supervisor Lenora Fulton, meaning that these officials can still continue on with conducting business for their respective schools. - See more at: http://www.navajotimes.com/news/2013/0713/071813nbo.php#sthash.rUYAYovb.dpuf...
An afternoon thunderstorm sparked two fires on the Flathead Reservation on Wednesday, and one other fire is under investigation....
PHOENIX -- The first Native American Basketball Tournament sanctioned by the NCAA is back for another action packed weekend of really great basketball....
For the second time in a week, the threat of bacteria that can sicken swimmers has arisen on popular Twin Cities lakes....
Hester Prynne, data suggests, wouldn’t get much of a break today....
Lawyers for the biological father of a Native American child are expected to make a last-ditch appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday, hoping to prevent the return of the child to her adoptive parents....
MUKWONAGO — A southeastern Wisconsin school district has formally refused to change its American Indian nickname, openly defying state education officials' order to dump it....
NEW HAVEN — A federal jury found the former chairman of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Council guilty on Wednesday of embezzling more than $100,000 from the tribe.,...
New Haven — Jurors took less than two hours Wednesday to find Michael Thomas guilty of embezzling from the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe he once led as chairman....
Canada's premiers are backing a call by aboriginal leaders to launch a national public inquiry into the case of missing or murdered aboriginal women, CBC News has learned....
Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt now says a judge will decide whether to release documents sought by residential school survivors that the government has so far refused to disclose....
The Ontario Superior Court of Justice ordered the government to hand over the documents to the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)....
DENVER, CO - A nationally known, nonprofit, public-interest law firm with decades of experience addressing constitutional and legal issues as to American Indians today urged the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit to uphold the holding of an Arizona federal district court that a Navajo District Court has no jurisdiction over non-Indians in a civil lawsuit filed for allegedly tortious conduct on an Arizona highway. Mountain States Legal Foundation (MSLF), which had been urged to file a brief by the tribal court but whose arguments were...
WINNIPEG - Manitoba aboriginal leaders say the death of a five-year-old girl at the hands of her guardians was the result of centuries of colonialism in Canada....