It's an issue, the lawsuit claims because Michigan has "refused to recognize the tribe's reservation in a number of ways that threaten the tribe's autonomy and sovereignty, and that violate the ...

The recent discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves for First Nation children at the sites of boarding schools in the Canadian provinces of British Colombia ...

PETOSKEY, MI -- A Michigan tribe has gone to court in an under-the-radar bid to designate much of Hemingway country as the state's largest Indian reservation.

A tribe of Native Americans argued before the Sixth Circuit on Tuesday that a treaty signed with the U.S. government in 1855 created an Indian reservation that must be honored by the state of Michigan ...

Bay Mills and the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians — two of Michigan's 12 federally recognized Indian tribes — will work with the U.S. Attorney's Office, the Federal Bureau of ...

The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, based in the eastern Upper Peninsula, has two powwows planned, including the 43rd annual Baaweting Homecoming Powwow, which starts on July 4 and ...

Michigan asserting jurisdiction over Indian child welfare matters on reservation lands, in violation of the federal Indian Child Welfare Act. Tribal members living in some townships that the tribe ...