All nine South Dakota tribes have officially endorsed the banishment ... she made disparaging remarks earlier this year against Native American parents during a town hall in Mitchell, saying ...

She alleged that some tribes work with Mexican drug cartels on South Dakota reservations and that Indigenous children "have no hope." In doing so, the Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe becomes the ...

The Education Department has withdrawn from an agreement to address disparities in discipline for Native American students at ...

The U.S. Department of Education has canceled a civil rights agreement with the Rapid City, South Dakota, school district ...

When Stephanie Russo Carroll, a citizen of the Native Village of Kluti-Kaah in Alaska ... A few other states — Alaska, ...

More than five tribes from across South Dakota, Minnesota and North Dakota ... Amelia Schafer is the Indigenous Affairs reporter for the Rapid City Journal. She is of Wampanoag and Montauk ...

The activists bearing freezing temperatures to protest the Dakota Access ... from doing business on Native American reservations in the first place, in effect denying tribes the opportunity ...

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