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The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a narrow 5-4 decision that the State of Oklahoma cannot prosecute crimes by Native Americans on Creek lands, holding that they remain a “reservation” and that federal courts therefore have criminal jurisdiction.

The head of the Venezuelan National Assembly’s indigenous people’s committee asserted on Tuesday that the socialist regime of dictator Nicolás Maduro had left indigenous Venezuelans in “total abandon,” with no resources to fight the Chinese coronavirus.

Land O’Lakes is quietly undergoing a brand makeover, removing the iconic Indian woman from its packaging after 92 years.

The status of the 321-acre Mashpee Wampanoag reservation in Massachusetts is in limbo following a series of court decisions, but the tribe and others in the state are blaming the Department of the Interior and, in turn, President Donald Trump.

TORONTO (AP) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday indigenous barricades that are blocking rail service across Canada and hurting the economy have to come down now.

Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg suggested the governor of New York don a cowboy hat and stare down Native American tribes with a shotgun over a disagreement on cigarette taxes.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences took the unprecedented step on Sunday of recognizing that the Oscars ceremony is taking place on tribal lands.

President Donald Trump has tasked three members of his Cabinet to work together to investigate the high number of American Indians and Alaska Natives who have been murdered or gone missing.

A climate change protester claims companies operating oil and gas pipelines are not only hurting the environment but indigenous people.

Jane Fonda said at a climate change protest at the Capitol on Friday that money spent to develop domestic energy is “suicide investing.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is expected to meet with tribal leaders in Oklahoma this weekend as part of her effort to make amends for falsely claiming Native American heritage.

Fundamental American values were established in the story of Thanksgiving centuries before the U.S. Constitution, explained historian Wilfred McClay.

Teachers across America are striving to have their students “unlearn” what progressive activists say is nothing more than a “feel-good” Thanksgiving “myth.”

A guest speaker at a recent event at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, told students they are “genocide beneficiaries” due to his view of American settlers’ treatment of Native Americans.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Before Chuck Boers joined the U.S. Army, the Lipan Apache member was given his family’s eagle feathers. The feathers had been carried by his great-great-great-grandfather on his rifle when he was an Apache scout.

The coach of an Arizona Native American high school volleyball team, pulled his team from an away game when opposing fans began taunting them with calls of “savage.”

A protest in Minnesota against what some are calling the Washington Redskins “racist” name, is going to get some support from a high-ranking state official.

The University of New Mexico announced this week that it is replacing the university’s “Conquistador” official seal in response to a protest effort by a group of student activists that called it “racist.”

San Diego State University is installing a $250,000 “healing garden” to ease tensions caused by the university’s “Aztec” mascot.

A Native American climate activist declared that the ecosystem in Washington, DC, is destroyed due to climate change furthered by colonization and slavery.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) promised during CNN’s climate change town hall Wednesday night that she will not do anything that affects Native American tribal lands without consent.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is struggling to gain the trust of Native American critics, despite apologizing for making “mistakes” in the past.

A Native American activist and citizen of Cherokee Nation slammed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in a Huffington Post op-ed Friday, calling on her to “tell the truth” about her ancestors’ interactions with indigenous tribes — alleging that her maiden family, the Crawfords, were “white squatters” on Cherokee land.

2020 White House hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) campaign website no longer features a DNA test result revealing her fractional Native-American heritage.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) participated on Monday in the Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, and apologized for making “mistakes” in the past.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a detailed plan Friday focused on “honoring and empowering tribal nations and Indigenous peoples” that includes numerous proposals ranging from tribal criminal jurisdiction expansion to implementing Medicare for All.

The controversial mural depicting George Washington will be covered with panels instead of paint, the San Francisco Board of Education voted Tuesday.

Actor Danny Glover is joining the growing chorus of prominent black activists who are opposed to covering a mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco, an artist and critic of the country’s Founding Fathers painted in 1936.

The Democrat voter who questioned Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) past claims of Native American heritage at a “Conversation with the Candidate” event in New Hampshire last week told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum Monday the presidential candidate was trying too hard to pander to her.

Neither debate moderators nor fellow candidates challenged Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D) on her false Native American ancestry claims during Wednesday night’s two-hour Democrat debate.

Three Democrats, a Republican, and Native Americans from several tribes are holding a press conference on Tuesday to push for passage of a new bill, Remove the Stain Act. The legislation would revoke the Medal of Honor that was given to members of the United States Army that fought in the battle of Wounded Knee in 1890.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom issued an apology on Tuesday to Native Americans on behalf of the state and called for a Truth and Healing Council.

Embattled leftist Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made his career on apologizing for his country’s alleged “colonialism” and vows to appease the green left. Yet even the threat of war was not enough to get his government to pick up its trash halfway around the world, dumped on an indigenous president.

George Washington High School is considering removing two 83-year-old murals that depict moments in American history involving president George Washington and other found fathers, as well as black and Native Americans. According to reports, critics argue that two of the murals “traumatizes students.”

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — John Little can hardly go a week without a reminder that he and other Native Americans often are viewed as relics of the past: the Indian maiden on the butter container at the grocery store, the kids’ teepees sold at popular retailers and the sports fans with their faces painted doing tomahawk chops at games.

A study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences claims that white people contribute more to pollution than black and Latino people, but the latter suffer from it more than the white polluters.