SEATTLE — Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Homes and other buildings in the Western Alaska village of Kwigillingok were lifted off their ...

After mounting criticism of Gov. Josh Green’s approach to renegotiating military leases of state-owned land, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs is asking for a more formal role in the process. On Friday, ...

Following community input and critique, the New Mexico Public Education Department last week submitted its final draft of the court-ordered remedial plan for a long-running educational equity lawsuit, ...

Five tribes in South Dakota want their congressional delegation to help restore funding for a research project led in part by a South Dakota genetics lab. The back-and-forth that’s played out over the ...

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Education Department is handing off some of its biggest grant programs to other federal agencies as the Trump administration accelerates its plan to shut down the department. It ...

The week’s edition of the ICT Newscast covers the news for the week ending November 14, 2025.

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 ...

WASHINGTON – This won’t be an easy conversation: Can tribal nations love mining? Or at least accept mining as a necessary step in the creation of a clean economy? And can governments and international ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X George Little Wound was gravely ill when he was sent home to Pine Ridge from the Carlisle Indian ...