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The newest federally recognized tribe wants better healthcare. It may be on its own.

  • Andrew Jones, KFF Health News

LUMBERTON, N.C. — Soybean fields surround Angie Lowery’s home in Robeson County, on a plot of rural land in southeastern North Carolina. Dozens of antique gas station signs, 20 feet tall, dominate her front yard. A framed re-creation of The Last Supper, Lone Ranger posters, and a 3-foot-wide tobacco harvesting basket adorn the walls of […]

Colorado

Fifty for 150: Ute bands expelled from Colorado’s Western Slope in 1881

  • Chase Woodruff

When Colorado attained statehood in 1876, roughly half of the portion of the new Centennial State that lay west of the Continental Divide was still reserved for the Ute people. Grand Junction, Durango, Aspen, Gunnison and Glenwood Springs were among the many Colorado communities that didn’t yet exist. An 1868 treaty between the U.S. government and […]

Great Falls backs Good Medicine housing project
Montana

Great Falls backs Good Medicine housing project

  • Michael Santoscoy NonStop Local Reporter

Great Falls, Mont. — Great Falls city officials moved ahead with the Little Shell Tribe’s Good Medicine Community housing development, a project meant for tribal members that would add more than 100 housing units on 18 acres.