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Thirty federally recognized tribes lay claim to a fourth of the Colorado River, a vital water source for 40 million people ...

During the quarterly meeting of the Coalition of Large Tribes , held June 2–3 at Eagle Crest Resort in Redmond, Oregon, ...

The Indian Health Service was mostly spared in the federal government's widespread staffing cuts, but tribal governments and ...

When Joey Apachee was killed in 2021, his family thought justice would follow. Instead, they joined hundreds of Indigenous families across the Navajo Nation battling a broken system, jurisdictional ...

On Tuesday, members of the 25th Navajo Nation Council took part in a tribal consultation hosted by the U.S. Department of the ...

took effect in 1998 to ease housing shortages in Indian country. The Navajo Nation, the country’s largest tribe and whose reservation is one of the poorest places in America, gets the biggest ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

In April, the Navajo Nation was scheduled to present closing ... "It relates to a quarter of Indian land in this country, it's the largest Indian water rights settlement ever.

The president of one of the largest Native American tribes in the U.S. announced ... resigning from the highest office within the Navajo Nation to ever be held by a woman. Navajo Nation President ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: This is part of a series of on how tribes and Indigenous communities ... 27,000-square-mile (70,000-square-kilometer) Native American reservation that lies in parts of Arizona ...

The Navajo Nation will receive more than $132.9 million, the largest single allocation, from a $1.1 billion funding package announced Tuesday, May 13, by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban ...