The semi-arid plains of the Pine Ridge reservation are dotted with hundreds of mobile homes and meager shacks, housing the Oglala Lakota nation — a population who have long been engaged in a fight for ...

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, ...

MADISON–Land was once set aside as Native American reservations because it was undesirable and low in resources, but now interested Native Americans may have economic leverage in the growing industry ...

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 ...

Onerous federal energy regulations that target reservations could be costing American tribes as much as $19 billion in potential earnings from wind and solar energy. The researchers, from the ...

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 ...

HALCHITA, Utah — After a five-year wait, Lorraine Black and Ricky Gillis heard the rumblings of an electrical crew reach their home on the sprawling Navajo Nation. In five days' time, their home would ...

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 ...

Housing insecurity touches almost everyone in tribal communities in Montana. Its causes and consequences are deep-rooted, confoundingly complex, and often overlooked. The Shelter Gap documents Indian ...

Nationalist Congress Party (Sharadchandra Pawar) (NCP (SP)) MP Supriya Sule's recent interview has reignited the debate on whether caste or economic criteria should be the basis for reservations. In ...