WASHINGTON — A Native American will lead the Department of Homeland Security for the first time in American history. The U.S. Senate confirmed in a 54-45 vote Monday evening that Oklahoma Sen.

WASHINGTON — The Senate is on track to confirm Markwayne Mullin as homeland security secretary, President Donald Trump’s nominee to take over the embattled department after firing Kristi Noem amid a ...

When Anthony Tamez first ran for office and won in 2023, he made history as the second Native person to hold an elected office in Illinois, and one of the youngest Native people to hold a position in ...

Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans’ disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law ...

WARNING: This story contains disturbing details about residential and boarding schools. If you are feeling triggered, here is a resource list for trauma responses from the National Native American ...

Tribes across the U.S. are responding to reports of Indigenous people being racially profiled, stopped, questioned and mistakenly detained by federal agents targeting undocumented immigrants as part ...

TAHOLAH, QUINAULT INDIAN NATION – A little more than a century ago the village of Taholah was built where the ocean meets the Quinault River. Today when there’s too much rain, or a storm surge, water ...

WASHINGTON — Ronnie Jo Horse is only the second generation in her Oglala Lakota and Northern Cheyenne family to be able to fully participate in elections. Her grandfather was born in 1910, before ...

The sight of a room full of human cadavers can be off-putting for some, but not for Haley Omeasoo. In fact, Omeasoo’s comfort level and lack of squeamishness convinced her to pursue studies in ...

WASHINGTON – This won’t be an easy conversation: Can tribal nations love mining? Or at least accept mining as a necessary step in the creation of a clean economy? And can governments and international ...

The wave of federal immigration agents swarming the Minneapolis area might be unprecedented in law enforcement history, but the response in the Indigenous community is not. Half a century ago, the ...

At least five Native American men have been detained and an unknown number questioned by immigration officers across the Minneapolis area in the midst of what a top official called the “largest ...