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People compete in the soapberry contest, a frothy pink dessert, at Celebration 2016 in Juneau, Alaska. (Photo-Sealaksa Heritage Institute)

Report by human rights group claims people discriminated against when it comes to accessing clean water on Canadian reserves

U.S. Attorney General meets with Alaska Native leaders and young people during visit to Anchorage

Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian people celebrate dance and culture at four-day event in Juneau 

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U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell speaks at an event last August in New Mexico. (Photo-Antonia Gonzales)

Spokane Tribe’s casino project receives approval from Washington’s governor 

U.S. Interior Secretary Sally Jewell says ICWA never implemented as intended

Fond du Lac Band and Duluth agree to end years of litigation over tribal property

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The Arizona Department of Transportation posted this image on social media after a fireball lights the sky. (Photo-Arizona DOT, Twitter)

Spokane Tribe receives special designation by Obama administration to help address poverty

Health officials seek ways to address health gap on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming

Scientists believe asteroid, which lit up the Arizona sky landed on White Mountain Apache land

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Crews work on the train derailment in Mosier, Oregon.  (Photo-Emily Schwing)

Canada’s top First Nations leader says police should accept some blame for murdered and missing Indigenous women

Tribes have been among groups to long voice concerns over fuel transportation through the Columbia River Gorge

New Native American Hall of Honor in North Dakota includes those in sports, military, leadership and arts

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North Dakota tribal leaders meet with U.S. Senator Heidi Heitkamp and FBI Director James Comey in North Dakota. (Photo-Office of Senator Heitkamp)

Montana tribal leaders and federal officials seek ways to help former inmates stay out of prison

Tribal leaders, Senator and FBI official discuss crimes by non-Indian offenders on tribal lands

Some Arctic communities plan alternative energy projects in efforts to decrease fuel dependence

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The Rolling Rez Arts bus made a stop in Rapid City, SD as it drives around the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation promoting arts and economic development (Photo: Credit Charles Michael Ray)

Officials cancel an Amber Alert for two boys missing from the Navajo Nation

The Grassy Narrows First Nation asks Ontario to clean up a river after decades of contamination

A converted bus aims to promote arts and economic development on Pine Ridge South Dakota

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Louis Levi Oakes received the Akewsasne Mohawk Code Talkers Congressional Silver Medal this weekend for his service during WWII. He handed the medal to his great grandson Zachary Swamp after the award presentation. (Photo: Meredith Turk)

Research gets underway to zero in on Native land environmental health

And it was a long time coming for a remembrance and honor for Mohawk Code Talkers

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Gathering of Nations founder Derek Mathews in front of Albuquerque’s Tingley Coliseum after announcing the powwow’s new home for at least the next four years (Photo: Art Hughes)

Qualified praise for a proposed funding boost for federal agencies

And organizers for a popular powwow formally announce a new location after losing their home of 30 years.

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Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne apologized for Canada’s mistreatment of indigenous boarding school students, such as these in Manitoba (Photo: St. Paul’s Indian Industrial School, Middlechurch/Courtesy Library and Archives of Canada).

A Great Plains tribe is the first in their region to take control of heath care from IHS

A formal apology from Ontario’s premier

A group challenges tribal land management