Wolf Pawochawog-Mequinosh filed a federal lawsuit last year alleging his religious rights were violated by the state Department of Corrections PROVIDENCE – The Rhode Island Department of Corrections ...

Full 5th Circuit Won’t Hear Tribe’s Religious Freedom Suit Over Tree, Bird Removal at Sacred Site In an 11-6 vote, the court said it will not reconsider a Fifth Circuit panel's December decision ...

PHOENIX (AZFamily)—The clock is now ticking for an Arizona federal judge to rule on a controversial land swap that could happen as early as mid-June. Native tribes argue that transferring land in the ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KVIA) -- The Mescalero Apache Tribe, along with others, filed a federal lawsuit against an online prediction-market platform's sports betting on tribal lands. According to a news ...

WASHINGTON (AP/AZFamily) --The Supreme Court on Tuesday rejected an appeal from Apaches who are fighting to halt a massive copper mining project on federal land in Arizona that they hold sacred. The ...

PHOENIX (AP) — From heartbreak and devastation to outrage, Emily Pike’s tragic death is stirring heavy emotions and spotlighting a crisis that has long plagued Native American communities, where a ...

Apparently, when Native American people say that a piece of land is sacred to them, the rest of us insert air quotes around the word. “Sacred.” Meaning, not. Because if we believed what the Apache ...