Guest Opinion. Being a federally recognized tribe in the United States officially recognizes the political relationship ...

Native American tribes are the original inhabitants of the lands that now make up the United States. Despite centuries of displacement, colonization, and cultural suppression, many tribes continue to ...

The Lumbee Tribe was first recognized by Congress in 1956, but the legislation didn't include federal benefits.

Wednesday’s vote to grant the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina federal recognition through a defense spending bill marked an ...

The Trump administration has championed its Rural Health Transformation Program as an investment in American families who have been left behind. But Native American tribes, whose communities have a ...

Native American tribal clinics in six states have been granted new powers to provide Medicaid clinic services, giving 89 new tribes more health care access. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid ...

The Trump administration is touting its $50 billion Rural Health Transformation Program as the largest-ever U.S. investment ...

From today's opinion dissenting from denial of certiorari in Veneno v. U.S. by Justice Gorsuch, joined by Justice Thomas: As "sovereign and independent states," Native American Tribes have governed ...

Native American historian Ned Blackhawk joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about the cultures and histories of the indigenous peoples of North America. Why were reservations ...

Drum group Warpaint Singers performs a song following a treaty signing in front of the Statehouse steps Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (Skylar Laird/SC Daily Gazette) COLUMBIA — South Carolina’s Native ...

A dozen Native American tribes in Michigan will collectively get about $26.5 million under a federal grant program aimed at improving affordable housing options on tribal land. The money is part of $1 ...