Although unemployment and poverty rates on Minnesota's Indian reservations dropped by a third during the 1990s, serious problems still persist on outstate reservations, according to the Census Bureau.

The semi-arid plains of the Pine Ridge reservation are dotted with hundreds of mobile homes and meager shacks, housing the Oglala Lakota nation — a population who have long been engaged in a fight for ...

American Indians on tribal lands in the United States have historically faced some of the nation’s worst economic conditions.

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 ...

A Native American youth leadership summit at Cherokee Ranch & Castle in Sedalia, partly organized by members of the tribes of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, brought together then Castle View High ...

A Native American youth leadership summit at Cherokee Ranch & Castle in Sedalia, partly organized by members of the tribes of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, brought together then Castle View High ...

Most Americans have never heard of "lock-in," a monthly occurrence on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. When adults get their government checks, they go on such an alcohol-fueled frenzy that the ...

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, ...

SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) — The Black Hills, including the land on which Mount Rushmore stands, was once set aside for exclusive use by Native Americans as part of the Great Sioux Reservation in the ...

Britney Spears has brought tremendous attention to the potential hazards of conservatorships. Indeed, Spears has done the seemingly impossible by making the issue bipartisan. A forthcoming Senate ...