Bureau of Indian Affairs

The project is part of the continued documentation of the U.S. government’s forced assimilation of indigenous children

The Montana Supreme Court heard oral arguments Friday over whether law enforcement agencies can be held liable when an on-duty officer commits sexual assault.

Today Indigenous people all over the U.S. are wearing orange to commemorate the survivors of federal Bureau of Indian Affairs-run boarding schools. This morning the Department of the Interior announced the next step to catalog the impact of these schools.

In downtown Billings Friday the Native American Development Corporation and Billings Urban Indian Health and Wellness Center held a march to remember victims of Indian boarding schools, where many Indigenous children were abused.

A federal appeals court considering the case of a woman who was raped by a Bureau of Indian Affairs officer is asking Montana’s Supreme Court to determine whether law-enforcement agencies in the state can be held liable when their on-duty officers sexually assault someone.

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland this week released plans to address the U.S.’s fraught history with federally run residential schools aimed at assimilating Indigenous children into white Western culture.

Last June, the Crow Nation created a new police department. Then, five months later, that department shut down with little notice as to why. MTPR’s...

A volunteer fire department northeast of Helena continues to respond to a six to eight acre wildland fire that burned a house, outbuildings and dry grass Friday.

The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing a case involving Crow Nation Monday morning that holds implications for policing in tribal nations across Montana and the country. The case before the Supreme Court focuses on a night in 2016 where a Bureau of Indian Affairs police officer was patrolling the state highway near Crow Agency. He saw a car pulled over to the side of the road.