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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.

An American Indian lacrosse team's refusal to travel on passports not issued by the Iroquois confederacy goes to the heart of one of the most sensitive issues in Indian Country — sovereignty.

The leader of the Quileute Nation in northwest Washington first began hearing her tribe had a role in the popular "Twilight Saga" from fans clamoring to know more about the place where a vampire tale of teenage love unfolds.

Detroit museum selling flag carried into battle by Lt. Gen. George Custer's 7th Cavalry Regiment against Lakota Sioux warriors.

Flood waters started to recede and the Rocky Boy's Indian Reservation was "out of crisis mode" Wednesday, though dozens of evacuees had yet to return to their homes, the tribe's chairman said.

Massachusetts lawmakers are scrambling to fill in the thorny details of a bill designed to throw open the state's doors to casino gambling.

The broken pieces of the Rising Eagle sculpture are finally back together, almost a year after vandals reduced the American Indian art to rubble last July.

Fourteen-year court fight over the way the federal government handled Indian land rights has only increased suspicion and hard feelings.

A new display at the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument includes items taken from the battlefield by the victors and that later found their way to a collector.

A small group of protesters stayed put Thursday after being ordered to leave the entrance of a planned nickel and copper mine in the Upper Peninsula, near what an American Indian tribe considers sacred ground. Two people were arrested.