Love, purpose, and prison on the Dakota Prairie.

Nathan Phillips wants to talk about Covington.

On bareback horse relay racing, a Native American tradition:

“It’s going to be America’s next extreme sport,” he predicts. “Compare it to Professional Bull Riders, PBR. Look how big that got—a million in prize money in every city they go to. That’s how Indian Relay is going to be in 10 years. I look for it to be at every track in the country by 2025.

After an 11-year-old Navajo girl was kidnapped, her family and friends sprang into action to find her. Why did it take so long for law enforcement to join them?

On Montana’s Flathead Indian Reservation, basketball is about much more than winning.

No one knows quite what to do with these coerced masks made from the faces of Native American POWS.

A Washington tribe expelled 306 of its members. They’re not going quietly.

A thousand years ago, huge pyramids and earthen mounds stood where East St. Louis sprawls today in Southern Illinois... At the city's apex in 1100, the population exploded to as many as 30 thousand people. It was the largest pre-Columbian city in North America, bigger than London or Paris at the time.

The movement at Standing Rock.

Last August, contaminated water escaped from an abandoned mine in Colorado and traveled down the Animas River to Shiprock, the second-largest city in the Navajo Nation. Two weeks later, the EPA declared the sludge-filled river safe.

The construction of a modern American myth.

Basketball on a Crow reservation and a player named Jonathan Takes Enemy trying to escape.

The story of the Caughnawagas, “the most footloose Indians in North America,” and their gradual assimilation.

On “the Incidents”, three shootings in a single month in a 1,300 person hamlet tucked inside the 12-year-old Nunavut territory. (The complete 4-part series.)

On reservations, where policing hardly exists, bruiser-for-hire vigilantes are often the first choice for justice.