The Indian Health Service office in Wagner, South Dakota. A new report says the health disparity between Native American and white South Dakotans is among the largest racial or ethnic health gaps in ...

Every morning at the crack of dawn, Candi Brings Plenty would climb up a small hill near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, to pray and post news directly from the camps of water protectors gathered on the ...

New data from the Federal Bureau of Investigations released on May 5 showcases declining rates of missing American Indian and Alaska Native people in 2025. The data’s release falls on the National Day ...

RAPID CITY, S.D. – It took 30 years for a second-degree murder conviction in the death of 23-month-old Kamisha Nyvold, Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota. What her family didn’t know is that 25 years prior, ...

MACAPA, Brazil (AP) — Paving roads in the Amazon rainforest has long brought deforestation that threatens the people who live there. The same roadwork, however, has also allowed archaeologists to get ...

NEW YORK (Lenapehoking), April 21, 2026 – On Saturday, June 20, 2026, the BLIS (Black Liberation Indigenous Sovereignty) Collective will host “Reclamation Day: A Reunion of Hope” – a large-scale, ...

This story is published through the Indigenous News Alliance. Artificial intelligence, or AI, is helping Indigenous communities detect illegal logging, track wildfires, and monitoring of traditional ...

This story is part of ICT’s series on the 10th anniversary of the Standing Rock movement. Water protectors came from far and wide. It was 2016 and the protest against the Dakota Access Pipeline just ...

Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche signs an order downgrading medical marijuana from a Schedule I to a Schedule III drug under the Controlled Substances Act. (Courtesy of U.S. Department of ...

Shoni Schimmel, a basketball icon in Native communities across the country, pleaded guilty to one count of misdemeanor assault on Friday. She won’t serve time in prison, but will pay restitution and ...

Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans’ disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law ...