Washington state Rep. Debra Lekanoff, seen in this photo from a previous legislative session, co-sponsored HB 1829, which was signed by Gov. Bob Ferguson on May 14. File courtesy photo Rep. Debra ...

Given ‘full faith and credit’ by local police, Superior Courts.

Cletus Paradise moved away from the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation after his son was killed by BIA police there. He finds it painful to return. (Drew Nash/InvestigateWest) Cody Whiterock was ...

After decades of work toward federal recognition with Congresswoman Gluesenkamp Perez and surrounding tribes, the Chinook Indian Nation is calling on new legislative allies, following an amendment ...

Jeff Jackson, Tlingit of the Kaach.ádi Clan from Kake, and Chris Pata, adopted into the Shangukeidí Clan of Juneau, prepare to set a tree into the waters of the Kasiana Islands in Sitka Sound in March ...

Olive Oshiro with “I Belong” written on her right hand, a message during the Nooksack Indian Tribe's disenrollment of her and 305 of other citizens. The late Oshiro was also a First Nations Shxwhá:y ...

The Indian Health Service received $8.2 billion in funding this fiscal year, despite asking for nearly $60 billion. Tribal officials say that any loss of facilities or employees, through firings or ...

Kristi Gilbert, a citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs and the mother of Allan Dale Warner Jr., speaks at a Feb. 26 community vigil held for her son in front of Madras City Hall.

“Hundreds of people have come in this room under addiction and sat there and drummed or sat there and listened to songs and changed,” says Aldo Garcia, whose traditional name is Puxtunxt, gesturing ...

On Feb. 10, around a dozen people gathered outside the Mamook Tokatee apartment complex in the Cully Neighborhood to display protest signs and sing handdrum songs before walking to the Native American ...

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), www.ice.gov. Photo courtesy of ICE, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons Tribes across the U.S. are responding to reports of Indigenous people being ...

Native Americans are twice as likely as others to have overdue medical bills in collection, and major problems within the Indian Health Service are a key reason, a new federal report shows. The ...