Indigenous people

An emergency vehicle barrier stands at Ellsworth Air Force Base in Rapid City, S.D. (Arielle Zionts /Rapid City Journal via AP, file)

Airman charged in killing of Native American woman who went missing 7 months ago in South Dakota

A 24-year-old airman has been charged with killing a Native American woman who went missing in South Dakota about seven months ago.
 
Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., speaks during the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, July 25, 2016. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

‘A legacy that is unmatched': Tributes pour in for longtime Arizona congressman Raúl Grijalva

 
Indigenous leader Filipe Gabriel Mura maneuvers a boat through the territory of the Mura people, in the Lago do Soares village, in Autazes, Amazonas state, Brazil, Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Edmar Barros)

Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe

 
Mark Macarro, President, National Congress of American Indians, testifies before the Senate Indian Affairs Committee during a hearing on Native communities' priorities for the 119th Congress, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Tribal nations are concerned that Trump’s cuts have the potential to violate trust responsibilities

 
A holds a candle at a vigil for slain Native American teen Emily Pike, while wearing a sticker in her memory, in Mesa, Ariz., Thursday, March 6, 2025. (AP Photo/Samantha Chow)

San Carlos Apache teenager’s death reverberates throughout Indian Country

 

Potassium mining project in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest divides Indigenous tribe

Beneath Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, one of the planet’s largest potassium reserves is fueling tensions between industrial ambitions and Indigenous rights. (AP Video by Fernando Crispim. Produced by Teresa de Miguel)
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Apache teenager’s death reverberates throughout Indian Country

Most Greenlanders are proudly Inuit and also Lutheran

Indigenous migrants in northern Colombia battle worsening droughts and floods

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Peru passes law critics claim will hamper the ability of NGOs to defend human rights

 
Part of the Amazon jungle destroyed by illegal miners is visible in the Tambopata province, Peru's Madre de Dios region on March 28, 2019. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd, File)

Peru’s Indigenous leaders raise concerns over oil and gas projects at a human rights hearing

 
A child fills a bucket of water transported by donkeys in the La Voz que Clama neighborhood on the outskirts of Maicao, Colombia, Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Indigenous migrants in northern Colombia battle worsening droughts and floods

 
An activist covered in mud poses with a sign that reads “Vale assassin” during a demonstration in Sao Paulo, Brazil, Feb. 1, 2019. (AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano, File)

In Brazil, mining giant Vale is sued over metal contamination found in Indigenous peoples

 
Climate demonstrators take part in a protest holding a sign that reads "tax fossils, protect biodiversity" as the COP16 biodiversity conference continues on Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, in Rome. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

In Rome, talks to protect Earth’s biodiversity resume with money topping the agenda

 
The corporate name stands out on tanks shown Friday, June 29, 2018 at at the Superior terminal of Enbridge Energy in Superior, Wis. (AP Photo/Jim Mone, File)

Michigan appeals court upholds permits for Great Lakes pipeline tunnel project

 
Members of the Indigenous Wayuu community, Zoyla Velasquez, left, and her family, visit the graves of their ancestors near a wind farm on the outskirts of Cabo de la Vela, Colombia, Friday, Feb. 7, 2025. (AP Photo/Ivan Valencia)

Renewable energy ambitions in northern Colombia collide with Indigenous worries

 
Leonard Peltier, center, a Native American activist released from a Florida prison where he had been serving a life sentence in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents, greets well-wishers during a welcome event for him, Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2025, at the Sky Dancer Casino Resort near Belcourt, N.D., on the Turtle Mountain Reservation. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

Native American activist Leonard Peltier, freed from prison, is welcomed on North Dakota reservation

 
A young man from an isolated Indigenous tribe appears on Wednesday, Feb. 12, 2025, in Bela Rosa, in Brazil’s Amazon. (AP Photo)

Isolated Indigenous man returns to tribe in the Amazon rainforest after brief contact

 

Man from uncontacted Indigenous tribe emerges in Amazon, and villagers demonstrate a lighter

 
An Indigenous woman and her daughter walk past old election campaign murals ahead of the presidential run-off election in Cochapamba, Ecuador, Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025. (AP Photo/Dolores Ochoa)

In Ecuador’s highlands, an Indigenous community faces choice between 2 candidates they don’t trust

 
Maka Indigenous people march to protest for the recovery of ancestral lands in Asuncion, Paraguay, Feb. 28, 2024. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz, File)

Their sacred land was a gift for their courage. Yet Maká people in Paraguay fight for its ownership

 
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland poses, in Albuquerque, N.M., June 12, 2023. (AP Photo/Roberto E. Rosales, File)

Deb Haaland made history as Interior secretary. Now she’s running for governor of New Mexico

 
Members of the Navajo Scouts firefighter crew kick up dust as they clear debris from a landslide across a road on a hillside as they battle the Eaton Fire, Friday, Jan. 17, 2025, in Altadena, Calif. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Navajo Nation firefighters battle wildfires in Los Angeles

 
President Joe Biden signs a proclamation to establish the Chuckwalla National Monument and the Sáttítla Highlands National Monument during an event in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, Jan. 14, 2025, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

Biden announces 2 new national monuments in California after wildfires scuttled previous event

 

As California tribes sue their gambling rivals, cities could be the losers

 
This photo provided by Lynne Buckner shows a Kings River pryg, a springsnail found in 13 isolated springs around Thacker Pass, 200 miles northeast of Reno, Nev., April 7, 2022. (Lynne Buckner via AP, File)

A drop in groundwater could mean big trouble for a tiny snail as Nevada lithium project presses on

 
The property of the late Amada Cardenas, who was one of the first federally licensed peyote dealers, alongside her husband, to harvest and sell the sacramental plant to followers of the Native American Church, in Mirando City, Texas, Monday, March 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Jessie Wardarski)

What is the Native American Church and why is peyote sacred to members?

 
An assortment of corn and seeds and a lightning rod are displayed as part of an agriculture tour on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona on Jan. 23, 2010. (AP Photo/Felicia Fonseca, File)

After decades of delay, A Native American tribe is closer to acquiring more land

 
Santa Claus speaks to pilot Maj. Lauren Schumacher en route to Yakutat, Alaska, as part of the Alaska National Guard's Operation Santa initiative that brings Christmas to an Indigenous community that has suffered a hardship, Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024,. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen)

Operation Santa skips the reindeer for a C17 military cargo plane

 
Cut down trees lie within view of the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru's Amazon, Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Amazon Indigenous community wins latest stage of court battle for lost territory

 
Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank walks along a raised walkway on Rice Island, one of several tree islands once inhabited by his family, on the Miccosukee Indian Reservation in Florida's Everglades, Thursday, July, 11, 2024. Frank, 67, who was born on a different tree island, continues to maintain the family's chickees, stilt homes, traditionally used for sleeping, eating, and gathering. The tribe no longer live on tree islands, but remain closely connected to their land through cultural, spiritual and environmental practices. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

Takeaways from AP’s story on the Miccosukee’s fight to protect the Everglades

 
Miccosukee Tribal elder Michael Frank speaks to members of a task force that brings together federal, state, tribal and local agencies working to restore and protect the Florida Everglades, on a field visit to the Miccosukee Indian Reservation ahead of a task force meeting hosted by the Miccosukee Tribe, Wednesday, April 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Rebecca Blackwell)

In Florida, the Miccosukee fight to protect the Everglades in the face of climate change

 
President of the Navajo Nation Buu Nygren speaks about the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Navajo president cleared of harassment, but the investigation stokes new political upheaval

 
FILE - A building that formed part of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School campus is seen at U.S. Army's Carlisle Barracks, Friday, June 10, 2022, in Carlisle, Pa. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum, File)

Biden creates Native American boarding school national monument to mark era of forced assimilation

 
FILE - The "House on Fire" ruins in Mule Canyon, which is part of Bears Ears National Monument, near Blanding, Utah, is seen June 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)

Biden adds to the nation’s list of national monuments during his term. There’s an appetite for more

 
Two women view aquatints by artist Karl Bodmer on Wednesday, Dec. 4, 2024, at the North Dakota Heritage Center and State Museum in Bismarck, N.D. Bodmer created numerous artworks of Native Americans and their culture along the Upper Missouri River during an 1830s expedition. (AP Photo/Jack Dura)

Historic images of Native Americans by a Swiss artist find their way back to North Dakota

 
Indian Education Director Hollie Youngbear poses for a portrait at Watonga High School on Wednesday, Oct. 2, 2024, in Watonga, Okla. Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. (AP Photo/Nick Oxford)

These Native tribes are working with schools to boost attendance

 
A woman models a creation by a local designer at a Chola fashion show, promoting the Andean style and beauty of Aymara women, in Viacha, Bolivia, Friday, Nov. 29, 2024. (AP Photo/Juan Karita)

In Bolivia’s scrappy highlands, proud Indigenous Cholas take the runway by storm

 
Donald Trump Jr., former Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard and Sen. Markwayne Mullin, R-Okla, speak during a campaign event in support of Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump, Oct. 18, 2024, in Red Springs, N.C. (AP Photo/David Yeazell)

Trump promised federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe. Will he follow through?

 
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