To rekindle Indigenous economies, tribes must be liberated from the outmoded constraints on their sovereignty.

It is nothing new to say that America's Indian reservations are awash in poverty, propped up by welfare, and that along with generations of welfare have come generations of other social ills: drugs ...

The poverty rate at Fond du Lac ranged from 19 percent for families to 26 percent for individuals, according to the 2000 U.S. Census, the most recent year for which reservation poverty numbers are ...

The director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission says he believes the poverty rate among Native Americans in North Dakota is dropping. As Prairie Public’s Dave Thompson reports in our series, ...

Whitney Fear, who grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Family HealthCare in Fargo, is the subject of a documentary film aimed at inspiring ...

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 ...

LINCOLN — A Dollar General store that opened a decade ago in Winnebago ushered in a new era of business on the northeast Nebraska reservation. Before the store opened, no business owned by a ...

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 ...