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Ranchers are voicing concern about plans to relocate some Yellowstone Park bison to Indian reservations in Montana and Wyoming.

The lack of a government-to-government extradition treaty between the Blackfeet Nation and Missoula County has stalled county attempts to jail the son of a tribal business council member on assault charges.

The Bush administration on Tuesday approved a plan that could allow more than 18,000 natural gas wells to be drilled in southeastern Montana over the next two decades. The plan had been delayed by the Northern Cheyenne and others.

Montana's first American Indian state schools superintendent, Denise Juneau, says she's an American Indian first — but doesn't want to be viewed as a single-issue elected official, either.

A nursing instructor at Montana State University in Bozeman will use a two-year grant to advise the Blackfeet Tribe about care that alleviates pain and suffering caused by serious illness, particularly cancer.

The Indian Child Welfare Act has played a deciding role in the difficult case of a Utah family that tried to adopt the 6-month-old son whose mother is a member of the Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe. The infant is now with the tribe in Minnesota.

The two top leaders of the Hopi Tribe say they will resign Dec. 31 in hopes of putting to rest what has been political chaos on the northern Arizona reservation.

American Indian tribes could have more influence in management of the Missouri River after a bylaw change by the Missouri River Association of States and Tribes.

A fish once found throughout the Zuni River watershed has been reduced to three small populations in a couple of remote canyons that slice through western New Mexico, so biologists and conservationists have teamed up to keep the fish from disappearing.

A rare find in Georgia has led researchers to suspect American Indians used burned bodies of the dead, making it a rare example of cremation among the early Native inhabitants of the southeastern U.S.