9 suspects in Mexico Indian village massacre freed

Mexico's highest court ordered the release of nine more people convicted in a 1997 massacre of Indians, ruling Wednesday their convictions were based on illegally obtained evidence. New trials were ordered for 16 others.

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Feds pledge overhaul of tribal recognition system

With some American Indian groups waiting decades for formal recognition from the U.S. government, federal officials Wednesday pledged to overhaul the cumbersome process but cautioned the changes could take two years to go into effect.

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Holder: DOJ helping tribes reduce violence

U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder says the Department of Justice is spending almost $400 million to help tribes reduce violence on their reservations.

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NY may try to collect taxes on Indian cigarettes

A deepening deficit has New York officials looking again at how to collect unpaid taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian tribes to non-Indians.

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NY may try to collect taxes on Indian cigarettes

A deepening deficit has New York officials looking again at collecting taxes on cigarettes sold by Indian tribes to non-Indians.

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NM school goes from worst to among best in 3 years

Fifth grader Darius Yazzie's after-school chores include hauling water for horses and feeding chickens, while his classmate, Shanika Begay, rides a bus 15 miles each way through the rolling hills of this impoverished corner of the Navajo Nation.

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Ecuador's Shuar gird for conflict after protest

Several hundred Shuar Indians wearing black war paint and toting wooden spears on Thursday reinforced a highway blockade that police failed to break up earlier in a bloody melee that left one Indian dead and at least 40 police injured.

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Despite order, smokes on sale at NY reservation

A court order hasn't stopped a brisk business in tax-free cigarettes on a New York Indian reservation.

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Fmr FSU football star inspires Indian health plan

Myron Rolle knew about the challenges of diabetes from his father and his premed classes.

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Indian tribes to get stimulus funds to fight crime

The U.S. Department of Justice is committed to helping American Indian communities battle a rising tide of violence against women and children, gang activity and other crime, a top agency official said Monday.

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Mexico: No compensation for wrongly jailed Indian

Mexican authorities said Tuesday there would be no compensation for an Indian market vendor who was wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and spent three years in prison in a case that provoked an international protest.

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Fla. gov. and Seminoles agree on new gaming deal

Florida's Gov. Charlie Crist and the Seminole Indians have agreed on a new deal to expand gaming at the tribe's casinos in the state.

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Justice to boost effort to combat tribal crime

On just a single day this year on the Red Lake reservation in northern Minnesota, police and investigators received emergency calls about a suicide, a murder, three stabbings, two shootings and multiple incidents of domestic violence.

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20 suspects in Mexico massacre released from jail

Twenty men were released from prison Thursday after their sentences in the 1997 massacre of 45 Indian villagers in southern Chiapas state were overturned by Mexico's Supreme Court.

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Tribal leaders seek help with Indian gang activity

American Indian communities are being overwhelmed by gang violence and drug trafficking, tribal leaders told lawmakers Thursday, appealing for help with problems more commonly found in big cities.

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Appeals court demands accounting for Indian trusts

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Interior Department must account for century-old land royalties owed to American Indians, reversing a lower court's ruling that the task is impossible.

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Ala. city plows beneath Indian site for Sam's Club

Bucket loaders and bulldozers are tearing apart a hill that researchers call the foundation of an ancient Native American site to provide fill dirt for a Sam's Club store, a move that appalls preservationists.

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NY counties plan to appeal Indian cigarette ruling

Local officials said they will file a notice of appeal following a court decision that allows the Cayuga Indian Nation to resume selling untaxed cigarettes at two tribal stores in central New York.

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Indian pipe firm no longer planning Ark. plant

An India-based pipe manufacturer is no longer planning to open a $100 million plant along the Arkansas River in Little Rock, state officials said Tuesday.

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Gov't says $250M in grants going to tribal housing

Housing Secretary Shaun Donovan says the government will offer more than $250 million in housing grants to American Indians and native Alaskans as part of the federal stimulus package.

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C-O-I-N-C-I-D-E-N-C-E? Spellers united by dreams

The reigning national spelling champion is a 14-year-old kid whose one-liners kept everyone laughing a year ago. His parents moved to the United States from central India, and he wants to be a neurosurgeon when he grows up.

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Peru's Amazon protesters withdraw insurgency call

Indigenous groups protesting laws opening Peru's Amazon to oil and natural resource development said Saturday they would withdraw a call for an insurgency against the government, but vowed to press ahead with their protests.

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Gov't says it owes nothing in Indian trust suit

The government told a federal appeals court Monday it owes nothing to 500,000 American Indians and their heirs who claim they were cheated out of billions of dollars in land royalties.

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Peru Indians block jungle airport in land protest

Ashaninka and Yines Indians are blocking an airport in the central Peruvian jungle town of Atalaya as well as two stations on a northern oil pipeline to protest laws that they say threaten their ancestral land and resources.

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Judge: 1868 Sioux treaty covers pain, suffering

A nearly 150-year-old treaty between the United States and a number of Indian tribes requires the U.S. government pay for the treatment and other losses of a Sioux woman sexually assaulted by an Army recruiter, a federal judge ruled.

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The British have long enjoyed food with a bit of bite. And 200 years ago, an Indian migrant opened Britain's first curry house to cater for the fashion for spicy food.

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They are Europe's Least Wanted – reviled for their unorthodox ways, hounded by white supremacists. Now the sudden arrival of Roma "gypsies" in Ontario has teachers here grappling to connect with some of the most perplexing students in the world.

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ISLAMABAD: Omar Saeed Sheikh, a detained Pakistani militant, had made hoax calls to President Asif Ali Zardari and the Chief of Army Staff, Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, in a bid to heighten Pakistan-India tensions after last year's terrorist attacks on Mumbai, investigators have t …

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Once upon a time, charity boxes of so-called Islamic welfare organisations were a ubiquitous sight at shops in our cities. These boxes were claimed to have been put there by the shopkeepers and Islamic welfare groups to raise money for the building of mosques and madressahs.

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A previously undiscovered letter written by one of India's best known female rebels against British colonial rule has been found by academics. The letter was written by Lakshmibai, Rani of Jhansi, shortly before the Indian mutiny - or first war of independence - in 1857.

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To say that Pakistan is in a clutch would still be an understatement.

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The 2000 U.S. census was the first to give Americans the option to check more than one box for race. Nearly 7 million people declared themselves to be multiracial that year, a number that's expected to shoot up in the 2010 count.

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Auditor General Sheila Fraser, an Officer of Parliament, audits federal government departments, agencies and most Crown corporations and makes regular reports to the House of Commons.

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While US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's visit to Islamabad highlighted the often bumpy relationship between the United States and Pakistan, the BBC's Diplomatic correspondent Jonathan Marcus reports on the struggle between the Indian and Pakistani lobbies for influence in …

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Indian officials said the bombers that attacked Mumbai's transit system killing hundreds had help from a source inside Pakistan. Indian authorities also named three suspects in the case.

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A huge fire at an Indian oil depot that killed at least six people and injured 150 is allowed to burn out as firefighters have little hope of dousing it, officials said.

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Considering all the chaos happening in Pakistan, I thought I'd dig into the recent past and see how it was headed. Here's an interview with a Kashmiri militant in 2004 with PBS. Some interesting opinions and comments. How much is truth, how much is fiction...

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This story from Chile reminds us that we have a problem in the US with the care and preservation of ancient artifacts.

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By Prachi Pinglay BBC News, Mumbai After drinking pesticide out of sheer desperation, poverty-stricken farmer Nandu collapsed. He did this on screen in front of an audience at a packed multiplex cinema, which issued a collective gasp.

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Some serious Heroism here by Rukhsana Kauser! By Binoo Joshi BBC News, Jammu A teenage girl says she killed a militant with his own gun after insurgents attacked their home in Indian-administered Kashmir.

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Hafiz Mohammed Saeed and the Jamaat al Daawa have nothing to do with Mumbai attacks, regardless of what the Indians keep saying. If you don't believe me, ask the InterPol. They also don't believe what India says.

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New analysis of NASA satellite data for the north-west of India from 2002 to 2008 has found aquifers are disappearing at an alarming rate...climate change could reduce subcontinent's crop yields by 30 per cent by 2050

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Laugh of the Day: Who said it?

Got this joke yesterday and just had to share it with you. What a cracker! :o) This joke is about an Indian boy on his first day at school in the USA.

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13-year-old girl from Lucknow, Yugratna Srivastava, has won the honour to address U.S. President Barack Obama, President Hu Jintao of China and other world leaders on behalf of the world's three billion youth and children.

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In the last six months, more than 50 people have been killed alongside the 2,500-mile barbed wire fence that India is building around its neighbour, Bangladesh. Such "smuggling"-related incidents are increasing.

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What Does It Mean To Be An American?

What does it mean to be an American? Unlike most other nations on Earth, the American nation is not strictly defined in terms of race or ethnicity or ancestry or religion. Being an American is not "simply" defined by anything it seems.

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Nice article on sensationalist journalism and the current debate on it because now a pair of journalists who were part of a nationally publicized sting in 2005 are being questioned. From Toronto's newspaper, The Star:

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The Indian state of Gujarat, which is BJP controlled, now moves to ban the book on Pakistan's founding father, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. It was written by Jaswant Singh, India's ex-foreign minister who was now expelled from the BJP political party.

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A blog post by Soutik Biswas the online correspondent for BBC News in India. He weighs in the whole controversy of Jaswant Singh's book on Jinnah. (I believe the post is made before the announcement of the expulsion).

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Ask Indians about the British, and they'll tell you the colonizers built a cracking railway, created an impregnable bureaucracy and educated a class of English-speaking toffs to man it.

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