Native Americans


MONTPELIER, Vt. - Members of Vermont Indian tribes have renewed hope for state recognition, which some have been seeking for decades and the Abenaki tribe needs to sell its signature baskets and other crafts as Indian-made.

SAN FRANCISCO - The Smithsonian Institution has returned more than 200 headdresses, hides, condor feathers and other ancestral items to a Northern California American Indian tribe in what officials say is among the largest repatriation of Native American artifacts ever.

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. - A southern Arizona tribe has become the first to issue identification cards with enhanced federal security features to its members.

PEMBROKE, N.C. - The 55,000-strong Lumbee Indians of North Carolina are watching their odds for federal recognition get longer as a dispute over gambling and lobbying divides members of the tribe.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. - A new board game based on a bloody Colonial-era conflict is rankling some Native Americans.
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