Meth adds scourge to troubled Native American lands
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HOGBACK, New Mexico  - A brutal triple slaying in this remote corner of the vast Navajo reservation brought home what experts have seen coming for years: an explosion in crime on tribal lands linked to the cheap, potent and highly addictive stimulant methamphetamine.
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A violent Mexican drug gang took out a rare, half-page ad in newspapers in which they claimed to be anti-crime vigilantes who wanted to stop kidnapping, robbery and the sale of methamphetamine in the western state of Michoacan.
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The last major push by the U.S. Army against American Indian tribes took place in the late 1800s. But a new report finds the military still poses a danger to American Indians.
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By SE RUCKMAN  PAWHUSKA -- Private landowners voiced strong opposition this week to a proposed Osage Nation environmental law that would assert jurisdiction over the wildlife, land and water on its reservation.
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To fight the meth epidemic, states go after legal sniffle remedies at the corner drugstore
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Deals with Native American tribes boost further expansion of gaming in the state.
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Federally owned lands are being transformed into the new playgrounds, and battlegrounds, of the American West.
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Scenes of enslaved Maya Indians building temples for a violent, decadent culture in Mel Gibson's new film "Apocalypto" may ring true for many of today's Mayas, who earn meager wages in construction camps, building huge tourist resorts on land they once owned.
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For 12,000 years or more, Columbia River tribes gathered nearby to do business with distant tribes. Now they want to come back &#151; to deal blackjack and poker.
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By CHRIS KAHN 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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CULIACAN, Mexico  - Sinaloa, the northern Mexican state that spawned the country's most fearsome drug cartel, hopes to lure tourists to rustic cabins in a rugged area infamous for opium fields and violent kingpins.
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Mexico's government said Thursday it would send troops and police to root out drug smugglers in several states, expanding an offensive that began this week in one violence-plagued state where soldiers clashed with traffickers trying to protect a marijuana field.
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By Shawna Gamache, The Idaho Statesman, Boise  Feb. 3--Idaho will soon be the third state to take up a gritty, graphic anti-meth campaign started in Montana in 2005.   On Friday, former Boise Rep. Debbie Field, Gov.
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Violence continues across western part of the country as rival ethnic groups face off
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By Laura Griffith, The Telegraph, Alton, Ill.  Sep. 7--Illinois is taking the fight against methamphetamines to the manufacturing level with a grant program meant to heighten security and safety measures at anhydrous ammonia facilities.
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By Deborah Bulkeley Deseret Morning News  In an effort to curb increasing unauthorized visitation to tribal lands, the Confederated Tribe of the Goshute Reservation has passed a law against trespassing.
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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.