tribal sovereignty

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland set out four years ago on a historic journey as the first Native American to serve as a cabinet secretary.

The Hualapai Tribe urged a federal judge Tuesday to extend a temporary ban on exploratory drilling for a lithium project near lands they have used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries.

The emergency legislation amends and strengthens the Radioactive Materials Transportation Act of 2012. It was passed in response to the unannounced trucking of uranium ore from the Pinyon Plain Mine south of the Grand Canyon.

The New Mexico Supreme Court says personal injury lawsuits brought against tribal casinos can no longer be heard by state courts.

Tesla opened its first store as well as a repair shop on Native American land in 2021 in New Mexico.

Native American nations say the Supreme Court's rejection of a challenge to the Indian Child Welfare Act has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from state governments.

Garcia was a former two-time president of the National Congress of American Indians, which describes itself as the oldest and largest organization of American Indian and Alaska Native governments.

Indigenous leaders called on Congress to reverse a Supreme Court ruling that expands the state’s ability to prosecute crimes on tribal lands.

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding state authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American land is upending decades of law in support of tribal sovereignty.

A divided Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that states can prosecute non-Natives for crimes against Native people on tribal lands, a ruling that critics called a "disaster" for tribal sovereignty and an "act of conquest."