KYLE, S.D. — The yearning to be on family land was so strong for Leatrice Wilson that she left thriving metropolitan Denver to live in the nation’s poorest county on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

What images come to mind when you think of life on a reservation? Isolated lands, scarce resources, and hardship? It’s time to challenge these stereotypes. Long before European settlement, Native ...

Indian reservations can still be pockets of poverty. There’s little in the way of jobs or industry at reservations, which are often located out in the boonies. Casino revenue is certainly changing ...

Tribal leaders from Montana, Wyoming and the Dakotas are calling for a federal Marshall Plan to deal with the growing health crisis on High Plains Indian reservations. They ve rebuilt Germany, they ve ...

BROWNING — They call it Moccasin Flats, though the street sign marks it as Third Avenue Southwest. This neighborhood, just a few blocks away from Browning Elementary School, represents the worst of ...

FORT MOJAVE INDIAN RESERVATION, Ariz. – The barren landscape of the Fort Mojave reservation south of Hoover Dam receives less than seven inches of rain a year. It’s a tough place to eke out a living, ...

MORONGO INDIAN RESERVATION (Dec. 8, 2023) – The Morongo Band of Mission Indians gathered today with public safety officials and elected leaders to break ground on a new state-of-the-art Morongo Fire ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. Richard Wilson has been a pallbearer for at least five of his "homeboys" in the North Side Tre Tre Gangster Crips, a Sioux imitation of a notorious Denver gang. One 15-year-old member ...

A South Dakota congressional candidate calling for an end to the Indian reservation system in the United States says the majority of people living on reservations are "victims of incest and ...

PINE RIDGE, S.D. (AP) — The only suicide prevention outreach program on a South Dakota Indian reservation where at least 15 young people have killed themselves this year will end in December due to ...

Unlike many states in the Midwest, including Michigan, Wisconsin and Iowa, Illinois doesn’t have any federally recognized tribal lands. Yet all around the state, in the names of cities, rivers, ...