It is nothing new to say that America's Indian reservations are awash in poverty, propped up by welfare, and that along with generations of welfare have come generations of other social ills: drugs ...

The director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission says he believes the poverty rate among Native Americans in North Dakota is dropping. As Prairie Public’s Dave Thompson reports in our series, ...

The poverty rate at Fond du Lac ranged from 19 percent for families to 26 percent for individuals, according to the 2000 U.S. Census, the most recent year for which reservation poverty numbers are ...

Whitney Fear, who grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Family HealthCare in Fargo, is the subject of a documentary film aimed at inspiring ...

What images come to mind when you think of life on a reservation? Isolated lands, scarce resources, and hardship? It’s time to challenge these stereotypes. Long before European settlement, Native ...

Growing up on the Tohono O'odham Nation, Phillip Enos loved playing baseball with friends and picking fresh corn and watermelons at a nearby farm with his grandmother. She taught him his native ...

ASHLAND, Mont. — Ten-year-old Sheldon Limpy kicked through a jumble of burned metal and charred wood, frowning his way through the ruins where his family's house once stood at the edge of this state's ...