With federal funding gone, tribes are turning to philanthropy, alternative lenders, and their own institutions.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Drum group Warpaint Singers performs a song following a treaty signing in front of the Statehouse steps Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025.

Native American tribes across the West are trying — and in more and more cases succeeding — in getting ancestral lands back.

A new report from Portland State University found that budget cuts under President Donald Trump’s new spending bill threaten nearly half of federal funding allocated to federally recognized Native ...

For many Native American tribes, economic self-sufficiency has long been a priority. In the absence of traditional revenue streams, tribal governments have explored and embraced industries that ...

Courtesy of Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation A tribally backed bill that could simplify the jurisdictional patchwork in Oregon Indian Country was signed by Gov. Tina Kotek on May ...

President Donald Trump issued an executive order declaring English as the nation's official language, but Native leaders dispute its reach. For many years, the federal government tried to erase Native ...

Native American tribes are the original inhabitants of the lands that now make up the United States. Despite centuries of displacement, colonization, and cultural suppression, many tribes continue to ...