The Pembroke-based Lumbee tribe was federally recognized by Congress in December after a nearly 140-year fight. Here's what's ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

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 ...

There are many misconceptions about tax payment rules for Native Americans. The relationship between Native American tribes, tribal sovereignty and taxation is quite complex. On one hand, the unique ...

PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — Outside the Mi'kmaq Nation's health department sits a dome-shaped tent, built by hand from saplings and covered in black canvas. It's one of several sweat lodges on the tribe's ...

Kansas is home to four federally recognized Native American tribes with reservations in the northeast part of the state. Many historical tribes were displaced from their homelands in Kansas, primarily ...

For the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, a tribe of nearly 40,000 in Shawnee, Okla., guarding against a potential loss of data related to its history, language and culture is a huge priority. That means ...

The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians is the only federally recognized tribe operating within Mississippi. Thirteen other federally recognized tribes have historical ties to Mississippi but are now ...

Several Native American tribes have filed a lawsuit asking a federal court to order the United States to release documentation of the brutal boarding school system that included one such institution ...

From today's opinion dissenting from denial of certiorari in Veneno v. U.S. by Justice Gorsuch, joined by Justice Thomas: As "sovereign and independent states," Native American Tribes have governed ...