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 ...

Jose Roberto “Beto” Ramirez found himself sitting in the back of a blacked out Ford SUV, his hands cuffed behind his back as immigration agents mocked and teased him Thursday morning. The 20-year-old ...

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 ...

LAC DU FLAMBEAU RESERVATION —The billboard glows ghostly white in the moonlight. But the outlines of Suzy Poupart’s face are still visible, gazing stubbornly out at the world, demanding justice for ...

FORT SNELLING, Minnesota – Last week, Native activists established a prayer camp near the site of a former internment camp for Dakota people. The camp was established in Fort Snelling, Minnesota, just ...

The growth in the American Indian and Alaska Native population in the last decade contributes to the country’s portrait of being much more multi racial and more diverse, according to 2020 Census data ...

The ceremony was modest, with a handful of tribal leaders and a few citizens looking on as Catholic nuns signed over about two acres of land to the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, land ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 150 people joined hands in a circle at Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, on Nov. 8, 2025, to bless the ground where the new Jim Thorpe Center for the Futures of Native Peoples ...