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June 30 is also the deadline for 17,000 allotment heirs to file claims regarding $38 million in unclaimed settlement money ...
The Bush Foundation is named for Archie and Edyth Bush, who founded it in 1953. The organization supports efforts across ...
In the next 18 years, North Dakota is expected to receive $60 million in national opioid settlement funds.
Three Indigenous prisoners filed a lawsuit against the Rhode Island Department of Corrections on June 13 in U.S. District Court in Providence, claiming officials denied their requests to hold ...
At the 8:38:32 p.m. mark, a sizable splash of water appears near the shore. The water foams and sprays high into the air, ...
Then there’s poverty. From 2015 to 2019, North Dakota as a whole had a poverty rate of 10.6%, the 10th lowest in the country. But American Indians in the state experience a higher poverty rate of 31.0 ...
On an unseasonably hot day in mid-October, three apprentices learning to install solar panels clambered on the roof of a community building in the small township of Wakpala, on the Standing Rock ...
The Knife River Indian Villages site is just 550 acres, Barthelemy said, but that’s a small portion of a much larger territory. A smallpox epidemic in 1782, followed by an attack by the Dakota people, ...
We’re gathering reflections on what it means to be recognized as an elder in Native communities today. While highly revered in Native culture, the title of “elder” lacks a universal definition, ...
Buffalo’s Fire is expanding again, this time in partnership with Report for America. Since its launch in 2017, RFA has placed more than 750 journalists in local newsrooms nationwide to enhance ...
Four North Dakota tribes will receive Indian Housing Block Grant (IHBG) funding as part of a $1.1 billion allocation announced by U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development Secretary Scott ...
Mandan Hidatsa and Arikara Nation residents can choose between two Native candidates for state representative in the Nov. 5 North Dakota elections. Incumbent Lisa Finley-DeVille and Ronald Brugh, ...