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One of the few Native American tribes in the U.S. that approves of same-sex marriage has begun officiating same-sex marriages in Oklahoma, in spite of the state's ban against the practice. Couples who are married by the tribe will receive federal marriage benefits but not state benefits. Read more at http://global.christianpost.com/news/native-american-tribe-officiates-same-sex-marriage-in-spite-of-oklahomas-ban-107498/#HOwbH5s6zRfuREek.99...
A $110-million lawsuit filed by a Sudbury mining firm is further proof that exploration agreements with First Nations are falling apart because the province is not doing its job, an NDP critic said Friday....
FARGO – Turnover of staff to investigate suspected child abuse and neglect cases has hampered efforts by the Bureau of Indian Affairs to improve child protection services on the Spirit Lake reservation....
YAKIMA, Wash. (AP) - Leaders of central Washington's Yakama Nation say they won't recognize the state's legalized recreational marijuana law....
The shortcomings of Canada’s aboriginal education system have been well-documented. For decades Ottawa has underfunded reserve schools, ignored their disproportionately high dropout rate, and shrugged off the funding gap between reserve schools and provincial schools....
Tip-off to basketball season is right around the corner. Shoni and Jude Schimmel are back at the University of Louisville, poised for another run at the national championships. Two years ago, Tahnee Robinson became the first Native American woman to be drafted by the WNBA and last spring, Angel Goodrich became the second. Indian girls are playing at many schools across the country and basketball reigns supreme throughout Indian country. Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2013/10/27/story-how-indian-women-...
Mukwonago — Andy Trudell takes no chances. No matter what happens in the debate over the use of American Indian names and mascots by schools and sports teams, Trudell, the athletic director of Mukwonago High School, covers all the bases. Read more from Journal Sentinel: http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/schools-caught-in-the-middle-of-legal-battle-over-mascots-b99127518z1-229399751.html#ixzz2j1AqFgj5 Follow us: @NewsHub on Twitter...
A pipeline has spilled more than 865,000 gallons of oil in North Dakota, upstream from the reservation of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation....
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — North Dakota, the nation’s No. 2 oil producer behind Texas, recorded nearly 300 oil pipeline spills in less than two years, state documents show. None of them were reported to the public, officials said....
There's not much hotter right now than the debate over the Redskins name. Rumors are swirling that the team is interested in switching to Bravehearts and American Indian groups are rallying to protest Washington's football mascot....
The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals has sided with the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin in a dispute over fees imposed on trust land....
New Brunswick RCMP say a fire was deliberately set outside its detachment in Elsipogtog First Nation Friday evening....
YUMA, Ariz. (AP) -- Yuma police say the chief of the Cocopah Tribe's police department and a woman are seriously injured and their assailant is dead after an attack at the woman's Yuma residence....
A legal setback in Elise Mallory’s child custody dispute with the state of Nebraska last February nearly drove the young Omaha Native woman from her alcohol treatment program....
More on those four women arrested Wednesday at the Buffalo point First Nation in southern Manitoba....
Officials have canceled an Amber Alert after police located a young mother and her newborn daughter who reportedly had health issues....
RAPID CITY, S.D. (AP) — Family members of a Native American woman from South Dakota who went missing 10 years ago say they don’t want people to forget about her....
Mexican-American Indians now make up the fourth largest tribal group in the United States, following the Cherokee, Navajo, and Choctaw, according to the US Census....
Mashantucket — A Mashantucket Pequot tribal member with financial credentials won election Thursday to the tribal council seat vacated by Steven Thomas, the former treasurer who pleaded guilty to a federal charge of stealing from the tribe, which owns Foxwoods Resort Casino....
The tribal secretary of the Spirit Lake Nation kept her seat on the tribal council following a recall vote Friday....
ALBANY, N.Y. -- A midlevel court on Thursday upheld the seizure of a truckload of untaxed cigarettes in Northern New York, a shipment that was ordered by an Indian tribe in Nebraska from a manufacturer on the St. Regis Mohawk reservation....
Native Americans are no strangers to poverty and health issues like diabetes, hypertension, mental illness and addiction. And although the community receives free health care under the Indian Health Services, tribal leaders believe the Affordable Care Act can further strengthen health on the reservations. The challenge is educating the community—many of whom have never heard of Obamacare. Robert Ray reports....
A state senator and suspended Blackfeet leader has pleaded guilty in tribal court to charges similar to those he faces in federal court over fleeing a sheriff's deputy who stopped him for erratic driving....
HELENA — The U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs is offering to mediate in a dispute that has split the governing body of the Blackfeet Indian tribe into two factions, but the tribal chairman said Friday he hopes to resolve their problems internally....
The Chippewa Cree's governing committee says it supports a new organization to fight corruption on Montana's Indian reservations, but one of the founders of the new group _ a former tribal chairman in a leadership struggle with the committee_ dismissed that pledge....
