Indian Country Today

Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito were the lone justices to dissent. The decision represents a major victory for federal Indian law and tribes across the nation.

Two large regional tribal entities resigned from the Alaska Federation of Natives earlier this month. That comes after three regional corporations dropped out over the past few years. What drives members to resign? What keeps them united?

Grant program will include bison, reindeer, moose, elk and salmon.

An Anchorage monument to Captain Cook highlights his travels, including to Cook Inlet, and calls him the ““greatest explorer-navigator the world has ever known.” But the inlet was no discovery.

“That was one heck of a ride,” said NASA astronaut Nicole Mann after landing into the Gulf of Mexico.

Hundreds of Indigenous peoples and allies showed up in front of the highest court in the land to show their support for the Indian Child Welfare Act.

ICWA faces broad constitutional challenges in an unfriendly court.

The Lingít community was hit hard when the community church was shuttered in a move considered racist.

The Muscogee Nation called the ruling an “alarming step backward.”

The findings show the federal Indian boarding school system consisted of at least 408 federal schools across 37 states and roughly 53 different schools had been identified with marked or unmarked burial sites.