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 ...

Since 1868 the Hidatsa, Mandan, and Arikara, collectively known as the Three Affiliated Tribes, have lived together on what ...

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 ...

During a panel on the Violence Against Women Act at the National Congress of American Indians on Monday, at the Foxwoods ...

“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 ...

IHS clinics and facilities, even those that are self-run by tribes, already only provide basic services. Tribal leaders in Sonoma County and the Great Plains say that their facilities—and those ...

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 ...