Diane J. Humetewa, the first female Native American federal judge, bridges her Hopi heritage and modern legal achievements. Raised balancing life in Phoenix and her tribal traditions, Humetewa notes, ...

Those Native Americans can only be prosecuted by tribal or federal authorities under the Supreme Court case McGirt v. Oklahoma. The lawsuit alleges that district attorney Carol Iski has unlawfully ...

Guest Opinion. During most of the past two centuries, the country’s failed federal Indian policy inflicted a great injustice ...

Experts say insufficient law enforcement funding has serious consequences for tribal communities. A new resolution aims to ...

Galen Aldrich said the close-knit tribe is happy for the McCauley family and will continue to support them as the case now ...

Attorney General Gentner Drummond's $89.84 million budget request would nearly double appropriations for his office in the ...

After years of efforts to address racial disparities in Washington State Patrol searches, an InvestigateWest analysis found ...

A large number of movies are made every year, but there is a very small percentage that centers around the stories of Native Americans. This gaping difference has been acknowledged by Native American ...

President Joe Biden visited the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona on Friday to deliver a long-awaited official apology to Native Americans for the federal boarding school system that severed ...

A history of the United States criminal justice system is a history of race relations in America. No aspect of the American criminal justice—from policing to the courts to corrections—is untouched by ...

Banner says that true crime storytelling can be helpful in exposing flaws within the criminal justice ... system needs to open up and become more transparent, in the way that we see the American ...