The United States government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation in an 1829 ...

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.

WASHINGTON — South Dakota Indian tribes pushed Wednesday for urgent improvements in medical care for Native Americans in the Great Plains, telling a Senate panel that substandard health care ...

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 ...

“And the funny thing about it is, the tribes have a bigger water right than the states do.” CrowGhost is chairman of the board of the Great Plains Tribal Water Alliance, which includes tribes ...

"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 ...

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 ...

On an unseasonably hot day in mid-October, three apprentices learning to install solar panels clambered on the roof of a community building in the small township of Wakpala, on the Standing Rock ...