The Justice Department announced Thursday that it has chosen 10 American Indian tribes for a pilot project in which their courts and police departments will be authorized, for the first time, to ...

American Indian women and girls make up 15% of Minnesota’s female missing persons cases, for example, and 1% of the state’s population, according to the state’s taskforce., opens new tab ...

In 1968, fed up with unlawful arrests, police violence, and poverty, a group of Natives in Minneapolis launched the American Indian Movement, an organization dedicated to addressing chronic ...

In its first major opinion on the scope of American Indian tribes’ sovereign powers in decades, the Supreme court held on Tuesday in United States v. Cooley that tribal governments — and thus their ...

Nationally, about 0.8% of the population identified as American Indian or Alaska Native alone, and between 1999-2011, they comprised 1.9% of police killings, according to the same study. But not ...

OLYMPIA — With thousands of people visiting the Tulalip Tribes’ lands to gamble or shop every week, tribal Police Chief Scott Smith wants his officers to have the same authority as any other ...

He and other tribal members believe police officers have used feathers and dreamcatchers dangling from visors as a reason to stop motorists who are American Indian, because it's illegal in ...

Indian police have arrested an American YouTuber, accusing him of traveling to the remote North Sentinel Island — home to one of the world’s most isolated tribes — without authorization.

Buildings included the Minneapolis American Indian Center, All Nations Indian Church, the Mashkiki Waakaaigan Pharmacy, the Woodlands National Bank, the Dollar Store and Maria's Cafe.