MOBRIDGE — Days before the end of her term, the first woman elected chair of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe said South Dakota leaders could learn something from their neighbors to the north. Janet ...

FARGO, North Dakota — Lorraine Sinclair had been waiting for this moment her entire life. Sinclair and her siblings, Cindy and Gerald Munro, traveled from Northern Manitoba in Canada to North Dakota ...

Autumn MacGee has two moods when she is in the water. One is full of contagious laughter, jokes and talkative banter with her crew. The other is more fierce, holding an intense focus for maneuvers in ...

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The headquarters of the U.S. Department of Education, March 12, 2025, in Washington. (AP ...

WASHINGTON — The Senate rejected competing measures on Friday to fund federal agencies for a few weeks when the new budget year begins on Oct. 1, increasing prospects for a partial government shutdown ...

Federal regulators will accept no public comments on a pending environmental study of oil leasing in Alaska’s Cook Inlet, a U.S. Department of the Interior agency announced through a Federal Register ...

The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo. In fact, Omeasoo’s comfort level and lack of squeamishness convinced her to pursue studies in ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON — Ronnie Jo Horse is only the second generation in her Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne family to be able to fully participate in elections. Her grandfather was born in 1910, before ...

This is the first installment in a three-part ICT series examining new rules under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Changes to the Native American Graves Protection and ...