In order to preserve the peyote ceremony, the federal and state governments encouraged Native American people to organize as a church, said Darrell Red Cloud, the great-great grandson of Chief Red ...

MPR News and the Native News team covered Indigenous stories ranging from government policies to the arts. Let’s look at the ...

Even though it is a controlled substance under federal law, an exemption afforded by a 1994 amendment to the American Indian Religious Freedom Act made it legal for Native Americans to use ...

In this corner of southern Texas, the plump cacti seem to pop out of arid dust and cracked earth, like magic dumplings.

Two Native American tribes in ... The tribes joined the Cheyenne River Sioux, Oglala Sioux, Rosebud Sioux and Standing Rock Sioux tribes in making the state's chief executive an outlaw on their ...

Nearly 30 horse riders traveled 300 miles from northern Nebraska to Mankato, Minnesota, to commemorate the hanging of 38 ...

S.3857 takes approximately 172.1 acres of land in San Diego, California into trust for the benefit of the Jamul Indian Village to expand its reservation. Other passed bills include: S.385, a bill to ...

A simmering debate over work visas exploded over the last days of the year, exposing a rift over immigration among President-elect Trump’s closest supporters. The H-1B visa — a temporary, nonimmigrant ...

The waters flowing from South Dakota’s Black Hills have been sacred to the Lakota people for uncounted generations. After decades of resistance to mining interests, tribal nations and their allies ...

Paleontologists may smile at the state’s motto, “Under God, the People Rule,” in this locale where dinosaurs dominated for ...

Here is a list of some of the notable former Hoosiers who passed away in 2024. Indiana Sen. Jean Breaux, who represented portions of northeast Indianapolis for nearly two decades, died in March at the ...