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 ...

State was ordered to adopt tribe-proposed Legislative district map, which replaces a 2021 map said to violate the federal Voting Rights Act. Secretary of State Michael Howe is appealing the order.

In the summer of 2024, excavations along Virginia's Fones Cliffs unearthed approximately 11,000 artifacts—pottery shards, stone tools, beads, and pipes—confirming what the Rappahannock Tribe had ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — It was the late University of Michigan professor Wilbert Hinsdale who compiled much of what is known about where Native Americans lived and traveled in the Ann Arbor area before white ...

FARGO — North Dakota lawmakers should not get more time to redraw a legislative district map after a federal judge ruled the previous redistricting efforts diluted the Native American vote, a federal ...

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 Justice Department's legal defense of Trump's order has drawn criticism for invoking an 1884 case, Elk v. Wilkins, that originally denied citizenship to Native Americans. The department argues ...

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 ...

The United States government promised the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation about 1,280 acres of Illinois reservation in an 1829 treaty. Instead, the U.S sold all of it illegally to white settlers. The ...

BERKELEY COUNTY, S.C. (WCSC) - Rapid growth and development in Berkeley County is causing concern for a Native American tribe as they lose access to sacred land. A treaty signed Wednesday by 10 South ...