Native Americans

Activists set up teepee in front of Trump Hotel, protest oil pipelines

Energy and Environment

Activists set up teepee in front of Trump Hotel, protest oil pipelines

Daniel Chaitin · March 10, 2017 5:03 pm

There is one Bureau of Indian Education employee for every 111 reservation Indians. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez, File)

Beltway Confidential

The new Trail of Tears

William Perry Pendley · February 28, 2017 4:31 pm

South Dakota Gov. Mike Rounds first learned of the laws' persistence from staffers with Native American heritage who complained to him that it was long past time to scrub the books. (AP Photo/Dirk Lammers)

Rounds aims to expunge ‘offensive’ Native American laws

Susan Crabtree · February 6, 2017 5:01 am

"Women go missing" in pipeline "man camps," Cheyenne River Sioux official says. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Energy and Environment

Tribal activist: Keystone XL would lead to more women being raped

John Siciliano · January 30, 2017 10:37 pm

"President Trump is legally required to honor our treaty rights," Standing Rock Sioux says. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)

Energy and Environment

Tribe vows to take Trump to court over Dakota Access pipeline

John Siciliano · January 24, 2017 11:01 pm

Okay, so now the Women’s March is about protecting Obamacare and Planned Parenthood?

Beltway Confidential

Okay, so now the Women’s March is about protecting Obamacare and Planned Parenthood?

Becket Adams · January 18, 2017 8:16 pm

The new monuments will rankle Republican lawmakers in western states. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Energy and Environment

Obama administration announces controversial Utah and Nevada national monuments

Kyle Feldscher · December 28, 2016 10:00 pm

Shall We Gather at the River?

Erin Mundahl · December 2, 2016 7:30 am

President Obama's administration in 2015 renamed Mt. McKinley to its Athabascan name Denali in a nod to Alaska Natives. Native Alaskans are vowing to fight President-elect Trump if he attempts to reverse President Obama's decision to change the name of the highest peak in the state. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Energy and Environment

Alaskans vow to fight Trump over mountain’s new name

John Siciliano · November 21, 2016 1:33 pm

The Standing Rock Sioux tribe has claimed that the project has encroached on its land, damaged sacred sites and would potentially harm a major source of their drinking water by going under Lake Oahe. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus)

Energy and Environment

Native Americans after ‘easy money’ in pipeline fight

John Siciliano · November 21, 2016 5:01 am

Westward, Oh

James M. Banner Jr. · November 18, 2016 7:00 am

In the last several months, one group of extremely hard-working and dedicated U.S. Army professionals serving here in the Midwest has been singled out for consistent and sustained public mistreatment not for any wrongdoing on their part, but as part of an organized campaign to discredit a nearly completed oil pipeline. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

The Army Corps of Engineers deserves thanks, not attacks, for Dakota Access Pipeline work

Washington Examiner · November 18, 2016 5:01 am