Landless tribe waits federal recognition
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Long after the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa was stripped of its land and scores of its people had been moved to Canada, the 4,300 surviving members are fighting to reclaim the shards of their past.
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Indigenous to the region, the Inuit want a 'meaningful voice' in the territory dispute.
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By Alex Demarban, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Dec. 13--Thousands of people in Kodiak and other Alaska communities might lose their right to subsistence hunting and fishing under federal law.   If that happens, many say, they'll lose a way of life.
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A Brazilian Indian tribe is linking up with Google Earth to try to capture vivid images that could help stop loggers and miners from deforesting the jungle and digging for gold on its vast Amazon reservation.
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WASHINGTON -- From all corners of the United States, from Canada and even Peru, tens of thousands of people descended on the National Mall yesterday for the opening of the National Museum of the American Indian.
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Facing case backlogs, administration to grant thousands of legal immigrants permanent status.
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The U.S. government on Thursday officially recognized the American Indians whose ancestors met the British Pilgrim settlers at Plymouth Rock in 1620 and fought in a bloody conflict over the first U.S. colonies.
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In trying to determine where the modern Indian reservation ends and where old-fashioned tax laws begin, a Supreme Court justice worried Tuesday that a ruling in favor of an upstate New York tribe would create governmental chaos.
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By DAVID KRAVETS  SAN FRANCISCO - Attorneys for Southwestern Indian tribes urged a federal appeals court Thursday to block the proposed expansion of an Arizona ski resort they say already desecrates land they hold sacred and sullies their religious beliefs.
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By P.J. Lassek, Tulsa World, Okla.  Sep. 15--Public gathering spaces would be the first areas developed on islands proposed for the Arkansas River, the River Parks Authority was told Thursday.
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By S.E. Ruckman, Tulsa World, Okla.  May 31--The Osage Nation will hold three hearings to discuss proposed tribal legislation that would establish the Osage Nation Environmental and Natural Resources Department and an Environmental and Natural Resources Commission.
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By CHRIS KAHN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS  HUALAPAI INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz.  A struggling Indian tribe is hoping to change its fortunes by luring tourists out over the edge of the Grand Canyon on a glass-bottom observation deck 4,000 feet above the Colorado River.
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SELLS, Ariz.  - Indian tribal leader Ned Norris  remembers a time when illegal migrants from Mexico would be  welcomed to his land after a long trek over the parched deserts  of the U.S. border.
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WASHINGTON - Watching a procession of 20,000 American Indians from across the continent march down the National Mall on Tuesday to herald the opening of the new Museum of the American Indian, Forrest Cuch of the Northern Ute Indian Tribe was overwhelmed.
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The chairman of a Native American   tribe said on Tuesday a federal rejection of a plan to store   nuclear waste on his tribe's sovereign land recalls 19th   century U.S. violations of Indian treaties.
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The Internal Revenue Service is waiting to hear from 32 Brown County residents who still haven&#39;t received their 2003 federal tax refunds.
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By Brandon Loomis, Anchorage Daily News, Alaska  Mar. 5--SOLDOTNA -- Kenai has gained help in its efforts to do locally  what state government has failed to do for the Kenai River.