Choctaw chief appears to have lost race
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The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians appeared Thursday to have elected a new chief for the first time in three decades.
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Sacramento -- The Indian tribe that caused an uproar with its plans for a mammoth, 5,000-slot casino in the center of San Pablo has offered to scale back its ambitions and accept a deal for only half as many machines, tribal leaders advised the governor
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In a Sept. 21 story about minority hiring for college coaching jobs, The Associated Press reported erroneously the ethnicity of St. Peter's College coach Chris Taylor. He is black, not American Indian.
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By Chris Niskanen, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Dec. 17--One of my last conversations with departing De-partment of Natural Resources Commissioner Gene Merriam was a rare moment of clarity between the press and government.
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Presidential candidatesâ withdrawal from a debate has frustrated members of the Congressional Black Caucus.
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Chad Smith was elected to a third term as chief of the Cherokee Nation on Saturday as the tribe deals with controversy surrounding a vote to rescind the tribal membership of the descendants of its slaves.
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President overshadowed by race to chose successor attempts to reassert his primacy
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Vice President Dick Cheney might have regained crucial ground lost by his boss, President George W. Bush, in last week&#39;s presidential debate, according to Larimer County
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By Anita Stackhouse-Hite, The Porterville Recorder, Calif.  Jun. 19--TULE RIVER INDIAN RESERVATION -- The Tule River Natural Resources department struck a heavy blow for farmers and ranchers Monday in the fight against noxious weeds on the reservation and in the Central Valley.
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In the era of Jim Crow &#151; when the Army brass didn't think blacks were capable of flying &#151; a group of minority pilots changed the way the military looked at race.
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By Alan Riquelmy, Columbus Ledger-Enquirer, Ga.  Feb. 8--A former employee for the Columbus Consolidated Government has filed suit against the city, alleging race discrimination and retaliation.
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In the solidly Republican state of Oklahoma, the party's Senate nominee, Dr. Tom Coburn, has lost his lead in the polls largely due to self-inflicted wounds.
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Marshall University football coach Bob Pruett has apologized for using a term some consider a racial slur, a newspaper reported. In his weekly news conference leading up to Saturday&#39;s game, Pruett called the
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In an era of Jim Crow when the Army brass didn't think they were capable of flying, a group of pilots changed the way the military looked at blacks. The Tuskegee Airmen, their ranks thinning as the World War II fighter pilots age, hold a reunion in South Carolina that begins Friday.
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In what could be his final words to the Senate panel he heads, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, the Senate's only native American, told a Washington consultant Wednesday that he represented the kind of people who have been defrauding American Indians for four centuries.
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By Steve Vantreese, The Paducah Sun, Ky.  Jun. 16-- -- Doug Travis' 60 years of service as a conservation educator ended the way he always said they would.   He died.
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His loss in Florida is the latest evidence that he may be running to lead a Republican party that no longer exists