After decades of political maneuvering through Congress and government agencies, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina may finally achieve federal recognition through the National Defense Authorization ...

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the only federally recognized tribe operating within Mississippi. Thirteen other federally recognized tribes have historical ties to Mississippi but are now ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. More than 17,000 acres of ancestral lands were returned to the Tule River Indian Tribe, part of a state effort to ...

From the depths of Brazil's Amazon to Indonesia's rainforests, some of the world's most isolated peoples are being squeezed by roads, miners and drug traffickers — a crisis unfolding far from public ...

Long before Alabama became a state, it was home to thriving Native American nations whose descendants still live here today. But how many tribes are officially recognized in Alabama now? In the U.S., ...

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more ...

The Miccosukee Tribe is lauding a judge's ruling regarding "Alligator Alcatraz." When the news broke in Florida Thursday that a federal judge had blocked further construction at the migrant detention ...

NUP's Noah Mitala alias Noah Mutwe (Left) and Former CID Spokesperson Charles Mansio Twiine (right) before Court. Chief Magistrate Ronald Kayiizi of Buganda Road Court has granted bail to Noah Mitala, ...

NUP’s Noah Mitala alias Noah Mutwe (Left) and Former CID Spokesperson Charles Mansio Twiine (right) before Court. PHOTO URN Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Chief Magistrate Ronald Kayiizi of ...

Noah Mutwe (left) and Charles Twine in dock at Buganda Road Court. FILE PHOTO Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Noah Mitala, popularly known as Nuwa Mutwe and a private bodyguard to National Unity ...

President Donald Trump’s move toward federal recognition of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina fulfills a repeated promise he made on the campaign trail, but it has sparked concern from other Native ...