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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Border Patrol efforts to fight back against smugglers who pelt them with rocks and ball bearings over the border fence are reported to be taking a toll on innocent local residents, raising many a hackle.
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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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Near a rock formation twisting into the Arizona sky, the desert floor has been torn up by off-road vehicles. A tattered VCR and a bullet-riddled washing machine further scar the landscape. Tonto is one of many national forests that suffer environmental damage caused by thoughtless, even unscrupulous, visitors. And the U.S. Forest Service doesn't have the cash or manpower to tackle the problem.
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NABUSIMAKE, Colombia -- Caught in the crossfire of a conflict not of their making, Colombia's indigenous tribes say they are fighting the greatest threat to their survival since Spanish colonizers reached their shores 500 years ago.
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One small town provides a snapshot of an electorate riven by tribal infighting
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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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The sales of more than a million acres of timberland in Northern Michigan have caused many people to worry about their jobs and their ability to hunt and fish.
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Deals with Native American tribes boost further expansion of gaming in the state.
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By TANIA SOUSSAN For the Journal A six-year battle over a patch of southern New Mexico known as Otero Mesa took a turn recently with calls from the state's congressional delegation for a moratorium on oil and gas development.
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SKULL VALLEY, Utah  - As some U.S. Indian tribes   have grown rich in recent years through casinos, others far   from population centers have struggled to overcome a historical   legacy of poverty.
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Wealthy American Indian tribes, including many that have made millions from gaming, are exploring ways to share their wealth with poorer tribes, tribal leaders said Monday
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When machinegun-toting hit men fought a bloody battle with police and troops around the Mexico town of Cananea that left 23 dead in May, it at first seemed to be the latest chapter in a very Mexican drug war.
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Housing on Indian reservations is plagued by substandard infrastructure and overcrowded conditions that can lead to a host of health problems, an advocacy group said Monday.
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By Robert Gehrke, The Salt Lake Tribune  Mar. 6--WASHINGTON -- A spat over hunting access on school trust lands  spilled into Washington as concerns from hunters groups and intervention from  Rep.
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An escalation of ethnic violence is threatening to plunge the country into chaos.
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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.