The movement to protect sacred sites is once again drawing attention as the Trump administration pushes to open more federal lands to development.

A new study in JAMA reveals the "statistical erasure" of Indigenous Americans, finding that the gap between AI/AN life ...

Death rates for American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) are far higher than reported in official vital statistics, ...

Former U.S. Internior Secretary Deb Haaland called for enhanced tribal input in policy decision during the Sovereignty ...

The New Mexico Environment Department is raising the bar on Los Alamos National Laboratory’s plan to vent tritium waste. Before the department approves or denies the lab’s request to vent four flanged ...

Long before the Spanish conquistadors made their way to New Mexico, the region was home to numerous tribes of Pueblo people. Today, the cultures of these Indigenous peoples are preserved at the ...

George Blue Spruce Jr. turned an experience in his youth into a career as a dentist, the first Native person to practice professionally.

The legal opinion upends a 1938 document used by 18 presidents of both parties. But it's still unclear if he'll tear up popular public landscapes.

When George Blue Spruce Jr. accepted his first postmilitary job practicing dentistry for the Indian Health Service, he found himself in for a rude awakening. It wasn’t culture shock, exactly. Born to ...

As the US Department of the Interior looks to preserve the longstanding market’s operation, many see a need to move beyond history.