Editor's note: This is the seventh piece in a six-installment series about Native American children in South Dakota's foster care system, produced in partnership between the Argus Leader and South ...

Lumbee Tribal Chairman John Lowery shared the following on Monday in a video update on the Tribe’s federal recognition transition: “Nikki Bass of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) Federal ...

This story is reported by South Dakota News Watch, a non-profit news organization. Find more in-depth reporting at www.sdnewswatch.org. DUPREE, S.D. — A child abuse allegation against a teacher at ...

MADISON, Wis. (WSAW) - Gov. Tony Evers has joined a delegation of 26 bipartisan governors in sending a letter to congressional leadership urging them to pass the bipartisan Strengthening State and ...

Worried about a pending U.S. Supreme Court case, some states aim to pass new laws ensuring American Indian children can stay in their tribal communities even if they’re placed in the child welfare ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), has released a final rule eliminating cost-sharing requirement for Tribal child ...

The justices resolved an issue that has split the state's Court of Appeals and focused attention on a key section of the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978. When a juvenile court judge knows or has ...

AKWESASNE — April Lauzon has been elected President of the National Association of Tribal Child Support Directors (NATCSD) of the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (SRMT). “I am humbled and honored to have ...

Worried about a pending U.S. Supreme Court case, some states aim to pass new laws ensuring American Indian children can stay in their tribal communities even if they’re placed in the child welfare ...

• Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is pleased to announce Janae Franklet’s promotion to tribal child support manager. As the tribal child support manager, Franklet will ...

Christian Blackbird isn’t sure how many children fell through the cracks. He’d been at the Crow Creek Indian Child Welfare Act Office for more than a year with a staff of two under his management. But ...