Native Americans

The latest coronavirus relief package includes $20 billion for tribal governments, a potentially transformative infusion of cash. Idaho Matters talks with Mountain West News Bureau reporter Savannah Maher about this issue.

Ruling otherwise, the court's majority wrote, "would risk perpetuating the historical injustice suffered by Aboriginal peoples at the hands of Europeans."

Before white colonizers took land from indigenous people already living in Idaho, the Nimiipuu people occupied much of the north central part of the…

This interview was originally broadcast in May, 2020. On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec…

Fallen pine cones covered 16-year-old Leslie Keiser’s fresh grave at the edge of Wolf Point, a small community on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation on the…

Karen Snyder has never been afraid to use her voice. She learned that from the women who raised her on the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. "I come...

This interview originally aired on Sept. 3, 2020.When white settlers took land from what is now known as the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in North Idaho, the oral…

When white settlers took land from what is now known as the Coeur d’Alene Tribe in North Idaho, the oral history of the land and its people was put in…

This story was powered by America Amplified, a public radio initiative.The U.S. Census Bureau has announced it's ending the 2020 count a month early, a…

In late 2019, President Donald Trump issued an executive order to create a task force – called “Operation Lady Justice” – that would address the crisis of…