A federal judge has overturned the U.S. Forest Service's approval of plans for a new copper mine in southeastern Arizona in a decision that comes amid a larger battle across the West over the use of public lands for mining. The judge ruled late Wednesday ...
Martin Scorsese visits Osage Nation ahead of filming 'Killers of the Flower Moon'
Director Martin Scorsese has visited Oklahoma and met with the principal chief of the Osage Nation to discuss filming his upcoming adaptation of "Killers of the Flower Moon." The Tulsa World reported that Scorsese and others involved in the film met with Principal Chief Geoffrey ...
Elevated opioid risks found at Native American hospitals: federal audit
U.S. government hospitals put Native American patients at increased risk for opioid abuse and overdoses, failing to follow their own protocols for prescribing and dispensing the drugs, according to a federal audit made public Monday. The report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human ...
Oklahoma base for migrant kids 'layered in trauma' endured by Japanese-Americans and others
A U.S. Army base in Oklahoma that the federal government says will temporarily house children crossing the border without their parents was used during World War II as a Japanese internment camp. Historical data from the National Park Service and private organizations show Fort Sill ...
Film explores rural New Mexico health care amid poverty, opioid crisis
Northern New Mexico is known for tourist attractions such as artsy Santa Fe, eclectic Taos and the healing dirt of El Santuario de Chimayo. The region's relaxing spas and skiing options present middle-class and wealthy visitors the opportunity to bask in the allurement of ...
In first, Native American tribe displaced by sea gets land to relocate
A small Native American tribe in Louisiana whose land has nearly vanished into the sea has moved a step closer to relocating its community further inland after authorities acquired new land for the move, part of a first-of-its-kind project. The 515 acres (208 hectares) of ...
U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a liberal firebrand who has taken on Wall Street and traded barbs with Donald Trump, on Monday became the most prominent Democrat to announce a challenge to the Republican president in 2020. Warren said she had formed an exploratory committee, which ...
American Indians fear U.S.-Mexico border wall will destroy ancient culture
To the Ysleta del Sur Pueblo Indians, the water of the Rio Grande that divides the United States and Mexico sanctifies religious rites and purifies their hunts. Indian communities living miles away use the river to send messages to fellow tribes downstream, said tribal chief ...
Martin Luther King children criticize Trump, decry racism on MLK holiday
Two of Martin Luther King Jr.'s children and the pastor of his historic Atlanta church marked the national King holiday Monday with sharp denunciations of President Donald Trump, focusing on disparaging remarks he is said to have made about African countries and Haitian immigrants. ...
Japanese researcher focuses on U.S. minorities, without reservation
A Japanese researcher whose worldview was shaped by a transcontinental journey in his youth has spent years chronicling the lives of Native Americans and other minorities in the United States. "While moving across the continents to the west, just like a runaway boy, the faces ...
Native hunters kill protected gray whale that made its way up Alaska river
A gray whale making a rare sojourn up an Alaska river was killed by Native hunters in boats who peppered the massive, federally protected animal with gunfire and harpoons. The 37-foot whale was then retrieved from the Kuskokwim River and cut up for distribution among ...
Holdout Dakota pipeline protesters face police as deadline passes
Several dozen demonstrators, the last holdouts from a mass protest of the Dakota Access Pipeline, faced off against riot police on Wednesday as they defied a deadline to end their months-long occupation of an encampment on federal land. Police arrested a handful of protesters who ...
