Native Americans

The National Labor Relations Board ruled in 2004 that it had authority over tribal casinos, reversing decades of precedent. (AP File Photo)

Congress mulls federal labor exception for Indian tribes

Sean Higgins · June 16, 2015 12:05 am

"I find it stunning that the National Football League is more concerned about how much air is in a football than with a racist franchise name that denigrates Native Americans across the country," Harry Reid said. (AP Photo)Â

Harry Reid slams NFL on ‘deflategate’

Kelly Cohen · May 12, 2015 3:29 pm

Toba-Maskoy tribal council members stand in their resettlement camp in April 1981. (Photo by O. Louis Mazzatenta/National Geographic/Getty images)

Feds haven’t compensated Native Americans 28 years after ordering them to move

Sarah Bedford · December 20, 2014 10:00 am

FILE - This Nov. 25, 2009, file photo shows Pamunkey Councilmen Jeff Brown, left, and Gary Miles, hold a deer as their Chief Kevin Brown presents it to Gov. Tim Kaine, second from left, during the annual tax tribute from the Virginia Indians to the Virginia governor in Richmond, Va. Several members of the Congressional Black Caucus are urging the Obama administration to withhold federal recognition of the Pamunkey tribe in southeast Virginia because of its history of banning intermarriage with blacks. (AP Photo/Richmond Times-Dispatch, Alexa Welch Edlund, File)

Black lawmakers: Don’t recognize Virginia tribe

Brian Hughes · November 28, 2014 5:00 pm

Tribe spokesman says Calif. AG attempting to weaken tribal governments

Tribe spokesman says Calif. AG attempting to weaken tribal governments

John O'brien · November 25, 2014 9:43 pm

From left, Dennis Niez Sr., Ray Curley and Charley Singer sit in the shade at Little Singer Community School Thursday, Sept. 25, 2014, on the Navajo Nation in Birdsprings, Ariz. The Navajo Nation is poised to receive $554 million from the federal government over mismanagement of tribal resources in the largest single settlement of it's kind for a single America Indian tribe. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Navajo to get $554 million in settlement with US

FELICIA FONSECATERRY TANG · September 25, 2014 10:48 pm

Plan to ax ‘Redskins’ from NFL Thursday Night game

Paul Bedard · September 25, 2014 4:04 pm

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Washington Secrets

Redskins poll: Blacks, Democrats, women support name

Paul Bedard · September 19, 2014 7:17 pm

Capitol Hill’s favorite sport? Bashing the NFL

Capitol Hill’s favorite sport? Bashing the NFL

Sean Lengell · September 19, 2014 1:04 pm

Native Americans getting final settlement payments

Native Americans getting final settlement payments

Matt Volz · September 18, 2014 7:47 pm

Beltway Confidential

The ‘hypocrisy of political correctness’: Fox segment hits company that allows swastika imagery but banned all Redskins material

Becket Adams · September 15, 2014 6:53 pm

Energy and Environment

Appeal filed over Oregon ruling on coal project

Zack Colman · September 10, 2014 6:28 pm