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U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer said Tuesday that federal officials must do a more detailed study on how the local economy would be affected if 129 acres of upstate New York land are put into trust for the Cayuga Indian Nation.

The National Park Service is completing its journey to Congress with the thoughts of the Navajo and Mescalero Apache about making the Long Walk a national historic trail.

Don Coldsmith, a family physician who gained fame as the author of the Spanish Bit Saga novels about the Plains Indians, has died. He was 83.

The Tohono O'odham Nation will soon rebury the remains of nearly 200 of their ancestors, dug up in the late 1970s and early '80s by teams of archaeologists working on what was then known as the Anamax-Rosemont site.

Montana wildlife officials seek proposals from Indian tribes, private groups and land-management agencies capable of caring for 50 to 100 disease-free bison.

FORT ROBINSON, Neb. (AP) — Dozens of runners will head toward Wyoming for their next stop on the 27th annual Sacred Hoop Run.

The State Law Library of Montana plans to unveil what it claims will be the nation's first comprehensive Internet portal on statewide Indian law by next January.

Unofficial results show Calvin "Coolidge" Jefferson, Jr., has been elected vice chairman of the Crow Tribe.

The U.S. Justice Department is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by descendants of Apache leader Geronimo, whose remains were purported to be stolen by members of a secret society at Yale University.

The chairman of the Crow Tribe, Cedric Black Eagle, met President Obama in the Oval Office recently, a year after Obama became part the Crow's Whistling Water Clan through a tribal adoption.

A second defendant indicted following an investigation into the theft and illegal trafficking of American Indian artifacts from the Four Corners area has been found dead in an apparent suicide, the FBI said Friday.

Members of the Crow Nation will head to the polls Saturday to determine who will be the tribe's next vice chairman.

By the end of this summer, the Cranbrook Institute of Science in Michigan hopes to turn over the remains of 65 individuals believed to have been Native American to the Little Traverse Bay Band of Odawa Indians, which will help return them to their communities.

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius says she will launch a new multiyear effort to improve health care for American Indians, which she calls a "historic failure."

The sun was barely up when federal agents began surrounding a dozen homes scattered across rural southern Utah, the final stroke of a two-year undercover investigation into the theft and trafficking of ancient Indian artifacts around the Four Corners area.

Work has begun on a garden to grow the ingredients for traditional tobacco in an effort to reduce the number of American Indian youths who use commercial tobacco.

Education programs in Montana and six other states have been selected to receive nearly $3.8 million to provide training programs to recruit and graduate new American Indian teachers and school administrators.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says he stands behind the investigation that resulted in the indictments of two dozen people accused of illegally trafficking in ancient artifacts from the Four Corners region.

President Obama announced the appointment of Kimberly Teehee of the Cherokee Nation as his long-awaited senior policy adviser for Native American affairs, a position he promised to create while campaigning for the presidency.

The U.S. has an obligation, based on a 1787 agreement between tribes and the government, to provide American Indians with free health care on reservations. But that promise has not been kept.