Tribal governments
FILE - This June 8, 2021, file photo shows the Supreme Court in Washington. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, FIle)
Supreme Court sides with Alaska Natives in COVID-19 aid case

By Jessica Gresko Jun. 25, 2021 10:38 AM EDT

In this Oct 1, 2020 image, Navajo rancher Timothy Largo and his grandchildren pose for a photograph outside a corral at the Sims Ranch near Crownpoint, New Mexico. Navajo ranchers impacted by the pandemic and ongoing drought may soon qualify for assistance to supplement their livestock with hay and grain. (Vida Volkert/Gallup Independent via AP)
Aid for Navajo ranchers hit by drought, pandemic on its way

By Vida Volkert Jun. 13, 2021 10:10 AM EDT

Navajo College accepts Biden's COVID-19 vaccination goal

Jun. 05, 2021 12:27 AM EDT
TSAILE, Ariz. (AP) — A college on the Navajo Nation has accepted President Joe Biden's challenge to get students and others vaccinated against COVID-19 by July...

Virus failed to curb North Dakota's appetite for gambling

By James Macpherson May. 28, 2021 01:46 PM EDT
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — The coronavirus pandemic did not slow North Dakotans’ appetite for gambling, with more than $881 million wagered on games of chance in...

An image of a Native American is featured in the artwork of Johnston Gate, Harvard University's first and largest gate heading to the campus, in Cambridge, Mass., Sunday, May 23, 2021. Some 350 years ago, Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck, an Aquinnah Wampanoag man, became the first Native American to graduate from the university, the product of Harvard's chartered mission to educate "English and Indian youths of this country." (AP Photo/Steven Senne)
For Native Americans, Harvard and other colleges fall short

By Philip Marcelo May. 27, 2021 01:19 AM EDT

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez speaks during a live radio address with first lady Jill Biden in attendance, in Window Rock, Ariz., on Thursday, April 22, 2021. Nez questions the fairness in awarding more money to tribes that don't have at least a one-fourth blood quantum. "Here on Navajo, we verify blood quantum, and that's a requirement," he says. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP, File)
Navajo Nation tops Cherokee to become largest tribe in US

By Felicia Fonseca May. 19, 2021 01:09 AM EDT

Iowa to get $1.48B in federal coronavirus assistance money

May. 10, 2021 03:52 PM EDT
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa will get $1.48 billion in aid under the federal government’s plan to help states hit by the coronavirus pandemic, according to new...

Nebraska to get $1 billion in federal aid from rescue plan

May. 10, 2021 02:56 PM EDT
LINCOLN, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska will get roughly $1 billion in aid under the federal government's plan to help states hit by the coronavirus pandemic, according...

President Joe Biden answers a question from a reporter after speaking about the economy, in the East Room of the White House, Monday, May 10, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
Treasury to start paying out $350B in state and local aid

By Josh Boak May. 10, 2021 01:00 PM EDT

Maine governor pushback stalls tribal sovereignty proposal

May. 05, 2021 10:26 AM EDT
AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — An effort to change Maine’s relationship with tribes has stalled with pushback from the Mills administration, likely pushing the issue...

Treasury: Some tribes will get more money from CARES Act

By Felicia Fonseca May. 04, 2021 07:02 PM EDT
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Some Native American tribes will receive more money from a federal virus relief package approved last year after the U.S. Treasury...

Police line the parking lot outside the Oneida Casino in the early morning hours of Sunday, May 2nd, 2021, near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Authorities in Wisconsin say a gunman killed two people at a Green Bay casino restaurant and seriously wounded a third before he was shot and killed by police Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike Roemer)
Police fatally shoot gunman who killed 2 at Wisconsin casino

By Todd Richmond May. 02, 2021 12:00 PM EDT

LeEtta Osborne-Sampson is pictured outside her home Monday, April 26, 2021, in Oklahoma City. Sampson-Osborn, a Seminole Freedman who has a tribal identification card and serves on the tribe's governing council, said when she went to the Indian Health Services clinic to get a vaccination in February, a worker at the clinic told her the Seminole Nation doesn't recognize Freedmen for health services. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
Black Freedmen struggle for recognition as tribal citizens

By Sean Murphy May. 01, 2021 09:13 AM EDT

In this April 6, 2021 image, Acoma Pueblo Gov. Brian Vallo shares his concerns during a roundtable discussion with other tribal leaders and U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Acoma Pueblo on Thursday, April 29, 2021, announced an agreement with the federal Indian Health Service to continue emergency care services at the community's hospital through February 2022. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)
New Mexico tribe, US agency reach agreement over hospital

By Susan Montoya Bryan Apr. 29, 2021 05:36 PM EDT

Metlakatla Indian Community Mayor Reginald Atkinson, fourth from left, laughs as he presents gifts to Alaska Gov. Mike Dunleavy on Thursday, April 22, 2021, in Metlakatla, Alaska. Dunleavy is shown second from left, holding a talking stick he was given as a gift. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)
Alaska governor's travel signals move to return to normalcy

By Becky Bohrer Apr. 29, 2021 02:45 PM EDT

Advocates detail 'shadow pandemic' of violence against women

By Susan Montoya Bryan Apr. 27, 2021 05:54 PM EDT
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Cases of domestic violence against Indigenous women and children and instances of sexual assault increased over the past year as...

First Lady Jill Biden is welcomed to the Navajo Nation on a hotel sign in Window Rock, Ariz., on Thursday, April 22, 2021. The trip is Biden’s third to the vast reservation that stretches into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca)
Navajo students describe pandemic struggles to Jill Biden

By Felicia Fonseca Apr. 23, 2021 02:10 AM EDT

First lady Jill Biden, center, is greeted by Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez, and his wife Phefelia Nez, right, upon arrival in Window Rock, Ariz., in the Navajo Nation on Thursday, April 22, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)
Jill Biden hears from Navajo women on needs, priorities

By Felicia Fonseca Apr. 22, 2021 01:05 AM EDT

FILE - In this June 20, 2019, file photo, the Supreme Court is seen in Washington as a storm rolls in. The Supreme Court seems inclined to say that hundreds of millions of dollars in coronavirus relief money tied up by a court case should benefit Alaska Natives, rather than be spread more broadly among Native American tribes.The justices were hearing arguments April 19, 2021, in a case involving the massive pandemic relief package passed last year and signed into law by then-President Donald Trump. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)
High court seems ready to send virus funds to Alaska Natives

By Jessica Gresko Apr. 19, 2021 02:13 PM EDT

FILE - In this May 24, 2015, file photo, a vehicle drives on a pier to be loaded onto an Alaska state ferry while people fish underneath the pier in Homer, Alaska. The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments Monday, April 19, 2021, in a case that will determine who is eligible to receive more than $530 million in federal virus relief funding set aside for tribes more than a year ago. More than a dozen Native American tribes sued the U.S. Treasury Department to keep the money out of the hands of Alaska Native corporations, which provide services to Alaska Natives but do not have a government-to-government relationship with the United States. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)
High court takes up case on virus relief funding for tribes

By Felicia Fonseca Apr. 17, 2021 11:59 AM EDT