Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The decision has been a long time coming, said Brian Weeden, chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe. "The priority has and always ...

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A push by the Shawnee Tribe in Oklahoma to take control of the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway will not move forward in the Kansas Statehouse this year. State representatives voted against a bill ...

The Biden administration punted on key demands from Indigenous leaders to tear down hydroelectric dams hindering salmon. But tribes won control over $1 billion for other salmon efforts. When the Biden ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - A Shawnee Tribe will not take control of a historical site in the Kansas City metro. Members of the House Federal & State Affairs Committee voted against a bill March 18, ...

November is Native American Heritage Month, which celebrates the rich culture and invaluable contributions of the First Americans. Oklahoma tribes are following those deep rooted traditions to take ...

The Yurok Tribe are one of the oldest existing communities in California. With a homeland stretching along northern coastal communities from Crescent City to Trinidad, there are estimated to be more ...

In an opinion released Tuesday, the U.S. First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston ruled that the U.S. Department of the Interior can hold two parcels of land in Taunton and Mashpee in trust for the ...

LABOR@KMBC.COM. THE DEBATE CONTINUES TODAY OVER A VALUABLE PIECE OF HISTORY. STATE AND CITY LEADERS ARE PUSHING TO KEEP THE SHAWNEE INDIAN MISSION UNDER STATE CONTROL. INVESTIGATIVE REPORTER MATT ...

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