The Twin Buttes Powwow in North Dakota supported my idea for a youth night and gave me the resources to create it. Now in its ...

Of the 29 Bush Fellows for 2025, five are Native, from tribes located in Minnesota and the Dakotas. “What sets them apart is ...

June 30 is also the deadline for 17,000 allotment heirs to file claims regarding $38 million in unclaimed settlement money ...

In the next 18 years, North Dakota is expected to receive $60 million in national opioid settlement funds.

Three Indigenous prisoners filed a lawsuit against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections on June 13 in U.S. District Court in Providence, claiming officials denied their requests to hold ...

On an unseasonably hot day in mid-October, three apprentices learning to install solar panels clambered on the roof of a community building in the small township of Wakpala, on the Standing Rock ...

Great Sioux Nation and Biden Administration representatives opened a path to joint stewardship of the Black Hills National Forest on Aug. 22. The leaders of their respective nations signed a ...

Then there’s poverty. From 2015 to 2019, North Dakota as a whole had a poverty rate of 10.6%, the 10th lowest in the country. But American Indians in the state experience a higher poverty rate of 31.0 ...

Four North Dakota tribes will receive Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) funding as part of a $1.1 billion allocation announced by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott ...

The Knife River Indian Villages site is just 550 acres, Barthelemy said, but that’s a small portion of a much larger territory. A smallpox epidemic in 1782, followed by an attack by the Dakota people, ...

Artist and entrepreneur Tipiziwin Tolman, or Yellow Lodge Woman, is Wičhíyena Dakȟóta and Húŋkpapȟa Lakȟóta from the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe. She started making dentalium earrings about 14 years ago ...

Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation residents can choose between two Native candidates for state representative in the Nov. 5 North Dakota elections. Incumbent Lisa Finley-DeVille and Ronald Brugh, ...