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Gov. Sarah Palin's rural adviser resigned Monday amid criticism of the governor's record on hiring Alaska Natives. Rhonda McBride, who is not an Alaska Native, made the announcement in an e-mail to several Native leaders, saying there need to be more Native voices in Palin's administration.

The school's location, near the University of Arizona, helps serve as a bridge between the more insular world of the reservation and the larger community, said the school's grant writer, Lynne Colombe, a member of the Rosebud Sioux tribe in South Dakota.

A new foster-care law bridges Washington's partisan divide and is touted as the most significant child-welfare reform in decades.

The long-forgotten story of a massive buffalo hunt that occurred as the animals were nearing extincton is remembered by the communities connected to it.

The president of United Tribes Technical College is encouraging tribal members to vote.

The "secretary of state" of a group that claims to be an American Indian tribe was sentenced Friday to one year and one day in prison for encouraging illegal immigrants to live in the U.S.

Crownpoint Community School, a boarding school that became the anchor for a small community on the eastern edge of the Navajo reservation, will be replaced by a modern $38.4 million structure.

North Dakota's Board of Higher Education says it won't back out of a lawsuit settlement over the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname.

One of the so-called tribal chiefs of a Kansas group that claims to be an American Indian nation but that has not been recoghnized is going to prison for his role in a scheme to defraud immigrants.

Anderson Yazzie turned his path from tragedy to success when he turned a childhood hobby of fixing hair in Native styles into a profitable business.

New Mexico plans to refund American Indian veterans for state personal income taxes withheld from their paychecks while they were on active duty between 1977 and 2004.

The top vote-getters for tribal chairman in the Chippewa Cree primary Tuesday were Raymond J. Parker Jr. and Jonathan Windy Boy.

A new federal indictment has been handed up against a Canadian man who was days from being tried in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American Indian Movement member when a judge threw out the original charges.

Crow Tribal Chairman Carl Venne says the tribe will support Big Horn County Sheriff Lawrence "Pete" Big Hair in an upcoming recall election.

Aquash's older daughter writes that "lies and cowardice collide with irony" with it because Graham first claimed he couldn't get a fair trial in the U.S. because he is Indian, then argued he wasn't.

Closed for 30 years, a school in Cass Lake, Minn., re-emerges this fall as a center for Indian ministries providing mentoring, biblical education and training in both ministry and life skills with the goal of preparing American Indian Christians to be leaders

A Tennessee high school, whose mascot is the Indians, takes the Native American motif one step further: It calls school grounds "The Reservation."

A federal appeals court that approved a plan for snowmaking on Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, sacred to Indian tribes, is giving opponents time to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Montana fourth-grade teacher Roxanne Small Not Afraid has been named teacher of the year by the National Indian Education Association.

Spirit Lake Sioux will go see the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux play an exhibition hockey game with mixed feelings about the team name.