The Lumbee Fairness Act gives the tribe's 60,000 members access to federal benefits like healthcare and education. The act allows the Lumbee Tribe to pursue federal programs, establish a reservation ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

The distinction for the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina, signed into law on Thursday, opens access to federal support and defies challenges from other tribes over their legitimacy. By Rick Rojas ...

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is on the verge of full federal recognition after the Senate on Dec. 17 approved a $900 billion defense policy bill, titled the National Defense Authorization Act.

In the U.S., there are 574 federally recognized Native American tribes and Alaska Native entities, according to the U.S. Department of the Interior. As for Louisiana, the state is home to more ...

Inside a Native American casino in Wisconsin, cards shuffle atop green felt tables and coins clink into metal trays. The Ho-Chunk Nation has offered gambling since 1982. But the real game is happening ...

The Puyallup Tribe of Indians is building a longhouse at their Levee Road housing development site in Fife. The longhouse is designed to have approximately 17,300 square feet of interior space and ...

Per stipulations in the Trump administration’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act (OBBBA), architecture will no longer be counted as a professional degree by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE). This ...

NISQUALLY INDIAN COMMUNITY, Wash. — The Nisqually Tribe said it will not house detainees for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after revealing that a staff member had been ...

As the Trump administration searches for more space to detain immigrants, it is approaching Washington tribes to see if they will participate. The Nisqually Tribal Council said in a statement Friday ...

Designed by PGAL to serve as a “library within a park” in the heart of the Midtown District of Dallas, the 40,000-sf Traphene Hickman Library in Cedar Hill features library, museum, and event spaces ...

On November 1, when the Trump administration announced it would not disburse benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, due to the ongoing government shutdown, tribal ...