Although unemployment and poverty rates on Minnesota's Indian reservations dropped by a third during the 1990s, serious problems still persist on outstate reservations, according to the Census Bureau.

American Indians on tribal lands in the United States have historically faced some of the nation’s worst economic conditions.

The poverty rate at Fond du Lac ranged from 19 percent for families to 26 percent for individuals, according to the 2000 U.S. Census, the most recent year for which reservation poverty numbers are ...

It is nothing new to say that America's Indian reservations are awash in poverty, propped up by welfare, and that along with generations of welfare have come generations of other social ills: drugs ...

The director of North Dakota’s Indian Affairs Commission says he believes the poverty rate among Native Americans in North Dakota is dropping. As Prairie Public’s Dave Thompson reports in our series, ...

Whitney Fear, who grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and works as a psychiatric nurse practitioner at Family HealthCare in Fargo, is the subject of a documentary film aimed at inspiring ...

POPLAR, Montana (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Life on the remote Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northern Montana has all the ingredients for sex trafficking - poverty, isolation, joblessness and ...