Three decades ago, the relatives of an eleven-year-old Native girl in Minnesota forced her to have sex with a man in exchange for alcohol. The story was not front-page news. It was not the subject of a feature-length film with a happy ending. No one ...

A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court declined to hear a case involving the trademark for the Washington Redskins. That decision left in place a lower court ruling stating that the plaintiffs had waited too long to bring a case for trademark cancellation ...

Already grappling with historically high rates of unemployment, American Indians, on and off reservations, are seeing even higher rates due to the country's two-year long economic downturn, according to a new survey. In the last half of 2007, just ...

The city of Sparks has joined a cooperative agreement to protect an obscure, rocky site featuring more than 200 panels of American Indian petroglyphs. The City Council unanimously voted Nov. 23 to join the protection effort for the Court of Antiquity.

There are so many hints and allegations surrounding the Tiger Woods wreck drama that it's all too easy to forget that there is, indeed, a victim whose suffering we can measure:...

Despite the promises made to Indian nations by the United States government, Indian health care remains inadequate and inaccessible. The Indian Health Care Improvement Act (IHCIA), the legislative foundation of the U.S. government's trust ...

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 8, the 342nd day of 2009. There are 23 days left in the year. Today's Highlight in History: On Dec. 8, 1941, the United States entered World War II as Congress declared war against Japan, a day after the attack on Pearl ...

Well, no more beating around the bush. No one likes asking for money, but the LPDOC needs a surge of financial support going into the new year. Among the projects we have on the table is a full-page ad we have prepared for an influential national news ...

Across North America, black bears have been found with gallbladders removed, paws chopped off, and bodies left to rot, all to satisfy a demand in Asian communities both here and abroad. A gallbladder might fetch thousands of dollars on the black market,

Each year, millions of wild animals are imported into the U.S., mostly for sale as exotic "pets." This trade has already exposed U.S. citizens to the potentially deadly monkeypox virus, which was carried into the U.S. by Gambian pouched rats imported