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The electric car company can only sell and service its vehicles freely in about a dozen states, while it faces restrictions in others. This time, it used a new approach

The hunt is part of an agreement between the Arizona Game and Fish Department and the National Park Service, to reduce the bison herd on the North Rim

Indian Country headlines for Friday, Sept. 24, 2021

Based on the size of the footprints, researchers believe that at least some were made by children and teenagers

Doctors and nurses fight to keep COVID patients alive

Measure passed with over 75 percent of the vote; funding mandated

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A long time ago on Indigenous land far, far away...

It may be the largest killing of Indigenous people in Mexico since 15 people were bludgeoned to death in a village dispute in Oaxaca state in 2020

Indian Country headlines for Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021

'For us, it’s an opportunity not only to come home to this place and reclaim this place, but to make it better and leave it better for future generations'

Sept. 30 is Day of Remembrance for US boarding school survivors

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland talks missing Native people, boarding schools and climate change in six month update

Family confirmed that Reatha May Finkbonner, 30, of Bellingham, Washington, has been found

Indigenous, two-spirit ‘climate champion’ flips seat in conservative oil region

'If our ancestors could do it, then we can definitely do (what it takes)'

Hours before her first powwow as a jingle dress dancer, young Nytalia Ashes was killed when a falling tree branch fell on her tent

Indian Country headlines for Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021

Hailee Toney, 14, realized her interest in music at a young age – about 6 – and said her love for the art continues to grow

‘During my 20 years at the Sundance Institute, I’ve tried to imbue my work with inflections of my own Cheyenne and Mescalero Apache cultures’

Several tribes announced vaccine requirements for tribal employees weeks before President Joe Biden’s announcement earlier this month

Indian Country headlines for Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021

The Massachusett Tribe at Ponkapoag says Myles Standish Hall should be renamed Wituwamat Memorial Hall

South Dakota governor says, '... there needs to be more public input to bring greater balance and emphasis on our nation’s true and honest history'

'To the Anishinaabe, the Ma’iingan are our brothers. The legends and stories tell us as brothers we walk hand in hand together'

A small-town school performed what school leaders say was a lice check. It sparked a lawsuit, exposed deep division, and continues to illustrate how the darkest chapters of our past can smash right into the present

The election results nearly mirrored those of two years ago

The real history of the Fort Lewis Indian School was 'nothing short of attempted and, sadly, sometimes successful cultural genocide'

'Through the proposed boundary changes, we worked hard to maintain tribal voting power ... '

'Our elders continually remind us to protect our water, and this day marks the beginning of the water compact implementation that will protect the water for all generations to come'

Indian Country headlines for Monday, Sept. 20, 2021

The Saint Regis Mohawk Indian Tribe in New York is already taking applications for tribal licenses for cannabis businesses

Director Sterlin Harjo and the cast of ‘Reservations Dogs’ present and represent at the 73rd Emmy Awards, and Jana Schmieding presented at the Creative Arts Emmys

Meet the 23-year-old artist and score composer who is breaking barriers with the team that brought one of Indian Country’s favorite shows

The new name would honor an influential Cheyenne translator who facilitated relations between white settlers and tribes in the early 1800s.

‘Code red for humanity’: Recent government report says window to act is ‘rapidly closing’

The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation tried early and often to protect its citizens from COVID-19, but in this case, to no avail

What you, our Indian Country Today readers, read most each week

The objective of the game is to throw a square bag to an opposing board, attempting to make it into a hole for three points, also scoring points if the bag stays on the board

Indian Country headlines for Friday, Sept. 17, 2021

A fire on the Tule River Indian Reservation and in Giant Sequoia National Monument grew significantly overnight to more than 6 square miles

Company’s actions are a clear violation of state law and public trust

Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. delivered his State of the Nation address virtually for the second straight year

The Interior secretary opposed the move by former President Donald Trump as a member of Congress. She visited the Colorado headquarters in July

Dozens of tribes had asked the Biden administration to immediately enact emergency protections for gray wolves nationwide

The museum represents the 39 tribes in Oklahoma and sits on a 40-acre site near downtown Oklahoma City

Arrest made nine years after Haliwa-Saponi tribal citizen Faith Hedgepeth was brutally murdered at 19

Indian Country headlines for Thursday, Sept. 16, 2021

The Legislature has previously had little appetite for subdistricts