Tag: Native Americans

McCain's solution: Let Native Americans use BIE funds on private school tuition or other educational needs. (AP Photo/Luis M. Alvarez)

Beltway Confidential

Is school choice coming to Native Americans?

Jason Russell · March 22, 2016 4:03 pm

HUD Secretary Julian Castro announced the grantees in Tulsa, Okla., last week at the winter meeting of the Inter-Tribal Council of the Five Civilized Tribes. (AP photo/Andrew Harnik, file)

HUD, Veterans Affairs partner to help homeless Native American veterans

Kelly Cohen · January 11, 2016 9:53 pm

The legislation is an effort to head off organized labor's push to unionize Indian casinos.Â (AP Photo/Nicholas K. Geranios).

House votes to limit federal labor authority over Indian tribes

Sean Higgins · November 17, 2015 8:44 pm

Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota, home to the Oglala Sioux tribe.Â Among the self-governing Native American communities across the U.S., the jail population rose by four percent from midyear 2013 to midyear 2014.Â (AP Photo/Kristi Eaton, File)

Jail population in Indian communities rises 4 percent

Daniel Chaitin · October 25, 2015 5:46 pm

Obama’s struggles with Columbus Day

John Siciliano · October 12, 2015 7:43 pm

Members the Knights of Columbus gather near a statue of Christopher Columbus during the 13th annual Columbus Day Commemoration Monday, Oct. 13, 2014, in Trenton, N.J. (AP Photo/Mel Evans)

Columbus Day revisited

cole-simmons · October 12, 2015 4:01 am

"Their historic step to build a better future stands in stark contrast to the dogged inaction of Washington's NFL team," according to a statement from theÂ Change the Mascot campaign and Jacqueline Pata,Â executive director of theÂ NationalÂ Congress of American Indians.Â (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)

California becomes first state to ban ‘Redskins’ team name and mascots in public schools

Daniel Chaitin · October 11, 2015 10:34 pm

The Obama administration has made it easier to grow marijuana on Indian lands than to produce oil and gas.Â (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Energy and Environment

Obama’s ‘energy-no, pot-yes’ policy

John Siciliano · October 10, 2015 4:01 am

Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov. Jeb BushÂ is weighing in on the Washington Redskins' right to keep its team name.Â (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Jeb Bush on Redskins name: ‘I don’t think it should change’

Kelly Cohen · September 30, 2015 3:20 pm

Richard Charley delivers water to a ranch along the San Juan River on the Navajo Reservation, Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2015, in Shiprock, NM. Toxic wastewater from the Gold King Mine in Silverton, Colo., has contaminated the San Juan River in Northern New Mexico from the runoff of the Animas River due to an accidental breach by a mining a safety team working for the Environmental Protection Agency last week. A 100-mile-long plume has since traveled for hundreds of miles, through parts of Colorado, New Mexico and Utah on the way to Lake Powell, a key source of water for the Southwest. (AP Photo/Matt York)

Washington Secrets

Battle Cry: Navajos feel ‘dissed by Obama, Democrats, open door to GOP

Paul Bedard · September 29, 2015 2:59 pm

"This landmark settlement represents another important step in the Obama administration's efforts to turn the page on past challenges in our government-to-government relationship with tribes," Sally Jewell said. (AP Photo)Â

Native American tribes win $940 million in suit against the feds

Nicole Duran · September 17, 2015 7:56 pm

McCain wants heads to roll at the Environmental Protection Agency over the toxic spill it caused last month.Â (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

Energy and Environment

McCain blasts EPA’s McCarthy over toxic spill

John Siciliano · September 16, 2015 8:26 pm