Two tribes are in federal court this week, trying to prove to a judge that North Dakota's legislative district map dilutes Native American voters' strength on their reservations. A trial began Monday ...

ANN ARBOR, MI — It was the late University of Michigan professor Wilbert Hinsdale who compiled much of what is known about where Native Americans lived and traveled in the Ann Arbor area before white ...

In the summer of 2024, excavations along Virginia's Fones Cliffs unearthed approximately 11,000 artifacts—pottery shards, stone tools, beads, and pipes—confirming what the Rappahannock Tribe had ...

Maps hold power. For millennia, the borders and place names represented on world maps signify who claims or possesses control of a geographic region. Through colonization, violent conquest or ...

Long before Mormons settled at the foothills of the Sierra Nevada in Genoa or Mexican trader Antonio Armijo coined the term “Las Vegas” en route to Los Angeles, Native tribes roamed the Silver State ...

FARGO — North Dakota lawmakers should not get more time to redraw a legislative district map after a federal judge ruled the previous redistricting efforts diluted the Native American vote, a federal ...

U.S. District Judge Peter Welte's decision comes after North Dakota lawmakers failed to offer an alternative to the state's 2021 redistricting map A Forum News Service graphic illustrates the 2021 ...

BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal appeals court won’t reconsider its decision in a redistricting case that went against two Native American tribes that challenged North Dakota’s legislative redistricting map ...