State was ordered to adopt tribe-proposed Legislative district map, which replaces a 2021 map said to violate the federal Voting Rights Act. Secretary of State Michael Howe is appealing the order.
Two tribes are in federal court this week, trying to prove to a judge that North Dakota's legislative district map dilutes Native American voters' strength on their reservations. A trial began Monday ...
For members of dozens of Native American nations, crossing tribal lands often means crossing an international border. Christina Leza, associate professor of anthropology and Indigenous studies at ...
Maps hold power. For millennia, the borders and place names represented on world maps signify who claims or possesses control of a geographic region. Through colonization, violent conquest or ...
The Justice Department's legal defense of Trump's order has drawn criticism for invoking an 1884 case, Elk v. Wilkins, that originally denied citizenship to Native Americans. The department argues ...
Chuckwalla National Monument is a protected area spanning 624,000 acres in the Southern California desert. Native American tribes throughout the area consider this landscape sacred and an important ...