When Anthony Tamez first ran for office and won in 2023, he made history as the second Native person to hold an elected office in Illinois, and one of the youngest Native people to hold a position in ...

To improve law enforcement and public safety providers’ response to crime in Indigenous communities, the Department of Interior’s Victim Assistance Program offers various training programs throughout ...

A rural California militia that prepares its members to use weapons and fight fires has served as a reminder of a time when militias were paid by the state to commit violence against Native people.

Susan Montoya Bryan Associated Press SANTA ANA PUEBLO, N.M. — The decades-old case file describes a medium-sized bowl crafted at Santa Ana Pueblo more than a century ago. Handed down over generations, ...

Rachel Becker CalMatters California regulators have embraced a controversial plan to overhaul how farms and cities take water from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and rivers that feed it. It’s a ...

Forget Indigenous rights, climate change and environmental protection. That’s the stark message from the latest edition of the U.S. Department of State’s reports on human rights practices across the ...

The ICT Newscast for Friday, August 15, 2025, features stories from across Turtle Island — from honoring women’s lacrosse players in the Haudenosaunee homelands and renewable energy innovations in ...

On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Czar Alexander II had ceded Alaska, his ...

SANTA FE, N.M. — The governor of New Mexico declared a state of emergency Wednesday in response to violent crime and drug trafficking across a swath of northern New Mexico, including two Native ...

New Hampshire has become the first state to require doctors and medical staff to sterilize patients who request it. The measure focuses on adults who have medical conditions for which sterilization ...

The Tso family approached the Tribal Homeownership Coalition of the Southwest for help in selling this home on Navajo Nation trust land in LeChee, Arizona. Its successful sale in January represents an ...

Now, the Trump administration is planning to open 82 percent of the reserve to oil and gas drilling. Thursday’s announcement, rescinding three planning documents, is a step toward that end. On ...