Despite tribes’ status as autonomous, sovereign nations, lands on federal Indian reservations provide revenue to state governments to pay for public schools, jails, universities, hospitals, and other ...
This investigation is a collaboration with Grist. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to ...
State and tribal forestry management practices stand in contrast here, where the corner of a recently logged state trust land parcel abuts lands managed by the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
When top state officials held a news conference in July to announce the tax crackdown, they noted that the policy would not apply -- at least for now -- to cigarettes manufactured on Indian ...