Now, according to tribal leaders, the syphilis rate among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the Great Plains surpasses any recorded rate in the United States since 1941, when it was ...

Excerpts from the Great Plains tribes’ request for emergency assistance from the federal government. Credit: Photo illustration by Peter DiCampo/ProPublica. Photograph by Anna Maria Barry-Jester.

Great Plains tribes are eager to capitalize on the burgeoning clean energy economy and are creating training programs to empower tribal members. Rather than competing with the region’s dominant ...

Dozens of bison from a mountain park outside Denver, Colorado, were transferred Wednesday to several tribes from across the Great Plains, in the latest example of Native Americans reclaiming ...

"Great Plains Indians" by David Wishart, University of Nebraska Press, 168 pages, $14.95 The first in a projected series of books called Discover the Great Plains, published by the University of ...

To the tribes, the wagon trains were deliberate encroachments on their land, often against the wishes of opposing Indigenous communities. Even with treaties in place between the Indigenous and the ...

Now, according to tribal leaders, the syphilis rate among American Indians and Alaska Natives in the Great Plains surpasses any recorded rate in the United States since 1941, when it was discovered ...