There are many misconceptions about tax payment rules for Native Americans. The relationship between Native American tribes, tribal sovereignty and taxation is quite complex. On one hand, the unique ...

Tucked within the expansive Native American halls of the American Museum of Natural History is a diminutive wooden doll that holds a sacred place among the tribes whose territories once included ...

SANTA YNEZ, Calif. (KABC) -- This is part one of a two-part series. See part two here. Across the country, Native American tribes are struggling to reclaim what was taken from them over the course of ...

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

The State of Sequoyah: Indigenous Sovereignty and the Quest for an Indian State, by Donald L. Fixico, University of Oklahoma Press, 206 pages, $34.95 In McGirt v. Oklahoma (2020), the Supreme Court ...

The Wampanoag are a Native American tribe that has inhabited present day Massachusetts and Eastern Rhode Island for over 10,000 years. The Wampanoag did eventually help the Pilgrims, but it was a ...

Communities across Michigan are gathering to celebrate the state's Indigenous roots this month as November marks Native American Heritage Month nationwide. Present-day Michigan is the ancestral ...

As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to federal Medicaid funding, health centers that serve Native American communities, such as the Oneida Community Health Center near Green Bay, Wisconsin, are ...

Native American campaigners are raising questions about the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s first-ever curator of Native American art — claiming she does not belong to a federally recognized tribe in the ...

Most people wouldn’t expect a tribe tucked between Minnesota’s suburbs and its icy lakes to be one of the wealthiest communities in the country. But the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community (SMSC) ...