An image of Ayabe-Way-We-Tung, the chief of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians, who began pushing the U.S. government for a reservation in the 1870s, adorns the wall in the Little Shell Tribal Health Clinic lobby in Great Falls, Montana. The mural is a reminder of the tribal nation's long push for federal recognition, which was granted in December 2019. Credit: Katheryn Houghton / KHN
When Congress passed a law in 2009 effectively banning mail-order deliveries of cigarettes, it was expected to snuff out entrepreneurs on New York’s Indian reservations who were selling millio…
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