TAHLEQUAH, Okla. - Hundreds of northeast Oklahoma leaders and residents converged Nov. 3-4 on the Northeastern State University campus to strategize and share ideas about building the local communities and economy

It takes some real contortions to make this link, but somehow Fox News' Glenn Beck managed to get from the tragic shootings at Fort Hood to the President's address at the White House Tribal Nations Conference to the possibility of reparations for tribes

Maria Maior's son is a football-playing, skateboard-riding, Xbox-loving kid whose home reveals all the trappings of domesticity: a cushy sofa, big-screen TV, a framed poster of Brian Urlacher -- one of the 12-year-old's favorite football players. On most

Buffy Ste. Marie lives on a farm in Hawaii, has a house in Maine, and is the wife of a former surfer--now farmer--named Dwayne Kamaikalani Bugbee. Periodically she leaves these havens, visits various reservations around the United States, and gives concert

WASHINGTON - An exhibition opening this fall at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian explores the identity of people whose ancestry is both African American and Native American.

Planning and development are underway for an American Indian education institute at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee

NEW YORK - While the New York State Police are worried about a confrontation if the state tries to block the sale of tax-free cigarettes on New York's Indian reservations, local Seneca Nation of Indian officials say the ongoing discussion could be an

Long before the first European settler set foot in what was to become Kingston Township, an American Indian nation flourished there until it was routed by another nation, leaving mysterious mounds behind as the only monument to its presence

Some readers may remember Fire Woman. She and her husband were proprietors of a small shop on Bearskin Neck, in Rockport, which sold Native American goods and supplies. She was also a fixture on the local powwow circuit

SAN JUAN COUNTY -- The San Juan County Sheriff says he may still pursue criminal charges against federal agents who conducted a raid involving stolen Native American artifacts earlier this year.