MacKenzie Scott Expands Giving Spree to Tribal Colleges

The billionaire philanthropist is steering millions of dollars toward tribal schools, after the Trump administration proposed a significant federal funding cut.

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Driving an E.V. Across North Dakota? Thank the Standing Rock Tribe.

A tribally owned network of chargers will soon be complete, connecting reservations and bridging a gap in the Midwest.

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Vatican to Return Indigenous Cultural Items to Canada Taken a Century Ago

Dozen of pieces used in a 1925 exhibition, including a whale-hunting kayak, will be returned to Canada early next month.

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Judge Cuts Greenpeace Dakota Access Pipeline Award in Half

A North Dakota judge reduced the jury’s award to the pipeline company Energy Transfer to roughly $345 million, from $667 million.

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A River Restoration in Oregon Gets Fast Results: The Salmon Swam Right Back

The fish had been missing from the headwaters of the Klamath River for more than a century. Just a year after the removal of a final dam, they’ve returned.

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Book Review: ‘The Great Contradiction,’ by Joseph J. Ellis

In “The Great Contradiction,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning historian looks at the way the founders wrestled with the fate of human bondage.

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Part of a 4,200-Year-Old Human Skull Is Found Along an Indiana Riverbank

The bone fragment, found in June, “is a powerful and humbling reminder that people have walked this land, our home in Fayette County, for millennia,” the county’s coroner said.

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A second perilous challenge to the Voting Rights Act awaits.

The justices will decide next month whether to hear an appeal from a ruling that would shut down almost all lawsuits under the law.

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Some Americans Are Starting to Feel the Impact of the Government Shutdown

The Trump administration said over 4,000 workers would be laid off. Farmers trying to plan next year’s crops don’t have all the tools they need. Some medical services have been curtailed in Native communities.

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A Hike to Crazy Horse Stirs Patriotism and Doubt

Thousands took part in a biannual hike to a South Dakota mountaintop, where a sculpture of the Lakota chief is in its 77th year of construction.

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