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Richard West, while director of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian, spent $48,500 in museum funds for a portrait of himself by a non-Native artist. Two U.S. senators call for an investigation into West's spending.

Their kingdom long ago overthrown, Native Hawaiians seeking redress are closer than they've ever been to reclaiming a piece of Hawaii.

Making more arrests and throwing more offenders behind bars will not bring an end to the crimes against children and other violence that is plaguing many of the nation's American Indian communities, a federal official for Indian affairs said Tuesday.

One of the nation's best known and most prosperous American Indian tribes will soon have a new public face: that of a woman, its first female tribal chief in almost 300 years.

Wilma Mankiller, considered one of the most influential Native Americans in America and the first female chief of a major tribe, has been diagnosed with stage IV metastatic pancreatic cancer, according to Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chad Smith.

"Remembering Private Charlo" tells the story of one of the soldiers to have raised the flag at Iwo Jima and invokes the long history of Louis Charlo's Bitterroot Salish people.

An oil boom on American Indian land has brought jobs, millions of dollars and hope to long-impoverished tribal members who have struggled for more than a century on the million-acre Fort Berthold Indian Reservation.

Residents of Noorvik have wholeheartedly embraced the ancient practice outlawed in the Inupiat Eskimo settlement, which was established in 1914.

Continuing an effort that began 20 years ago, Gov. Mike Rounds declared a Year of Unity and urged South Dakota's different races to get to know each other better and cooperate on common problems.

A century-old fight over water from Oregon's Klamath Basin ended Thursday with signed agreements that assure farmers water and power to keep their crops green, and lay out the removal of dams that have blocked salmon from hundreds of miles of spawning grounds.