Momentum is steadily building toward finding a permanent funding solution to help the growing numbers of problem gamblers in the state. As revenues from Indian casinos have exploded in recent years, ...

The Bureau of Indian Affairs had warned the Northern Cheyenne Tribe of problems with its social services program as early as December 2001, nearly two years before the BIA stepped in and took charge ...

An American Indian tribe sued some of the world's largest beer makers Thursday, claiming they knowingly contributed to devastating alcohol-related problems on South Dakota's Pine Ridge Indian ...

WASHINGTON – National Congress of Indians President Joe Garcia is calling for a partnership between the tribes and federal, state and local governments to combat methamphetamine, which some Indian ...

HELENA — Some members of Montana’s Little Shell tribe want the state to withhold $900,000 in grant money because of concerns that the tribe might mishandle it. The revelation came Tuesday when a ...

Despite a record snowpack that has kept the South Fork of the Tule River flowing at a steady clip, residents of the Tule River Reservation – who get 60% of their supplies directly from the river – ...

(CN) - The second largest Indian tribe in the country cannot sue over the same issue in two separate courts, even though neither court can individually provide the full relief that the tribe seeks, ...

“Being a problem is a strange experience,” W.E.B. Du Bois wrote in the 19th century, and it’s still so. “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina would receive full federal recognition under a bill passed by Congress. Now it awaits ...

PART 1: THE PROBLEM OF TRIBE AS 'CULTUNIT': 1. Hymes, Dell; Linguistic problems in defining the concept of 'tribe'. -- 2. Hoffman, Hans; Mathematical structures in ethnological systems. -- 3. Bessac, ...