Two tribes are in federal court this week, trying to prove to a judge that North Dakota's legislative district map dilutes Native American voters' strength on their reservations. A trial began Monday ...

This legislative district map was drawn by the plaintiffs in a lawsuit against the state. North Dakota officials were ordered by federal Judge Peter Welte to adopt the map, but an appeals court has ...

A federal judge is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether the new boundaries of North Dakota's legislative districts dilute Native American voters' strength on two reservations whose tribes ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal appeals court won’t reconsider its decision in a redistricting case that went against two Native American tribes that challenged North Dakota’s legislative redistricting map ...

The Dallas City Council approved a resolution Wednesday that renames three lakes along the Trinity River as the Three Sisters lakes, each one named after a tribe that's indigenous to North Texas. The ...

Route 66 travels 2,448 miles across eight states linking Chicago to Los Angeles. Roughly 1,372 of those miles cut through Native American Tribes’ land. According to the American Indian Alaska Native ...

Earlier this month, Oregon State University received $10 million from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to work with a coalition of Native American tribes to explore opportunities to manufacture ...

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A proposed water rights settlement for three Native American tribes that carries a price tag larger than any such agreement enacted by Congress took a significant step forward late Monday with ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

California is calling upon Native American tribes to bring back the once-prohibited practice of lighting controlled burns to help prevent devastating wildfires that have wreaked havoc on the state.