Trump has holdings in the company building the Dakota Access pipeline, whose CEO says he is "100%" confident construction will be completed under the new administration.
More than 140 were arrested as over 300 riot police backed up with armored vehicles and helicopters cleared the camp erected to block construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
Amid unprecedented protests, a federal appeals court ruled against Native American tribes, allowing construction on the Dakota Access Pipeline to move forward.
The Mohawk band council of Akwesasne introduced its own legal system independent of Canada's federal system, marking the first such indigenous judiciary in the country.
Native Americans, ranchers and farmers launched a blockade of a highway in North Dakota to bar crews from reaching the construction site of the Dakota Access Pipeline.
The man named in the vigilante-style killing of three police officers in Baton Rouge was apparently a follower of the often misunderstood Moorish Science movement.
Canada's Federal Court of Appeal overturned approval of Enbridge energy company's Northern Gateway pipeline that would link Alberta's oil sands to British Columbia's coast.
De Beers operates a diamond mine on lands of northern Ontario's suicide-striken Cree community of Attawapiskat—where it pays a pittance in royalties despite record profits.
Canada's Supreme Court announced that it will review two decisions of the National Energy Board related to oil development and aboriginal consultation.
The Mohawk nation is threatening to do everything legally in its power to block TransCanada's Energy East pipeline project, calling it a threat to their way of life.
An Indian tribe deep in the Louisiana bayou became the United States' first "climate refugees" when the federal government awarded them $48 million to relocate.
The take-over of federal lands in eastern Oregon by a right-wing militia builds on a rancher land-grab that began when the Paiute Indians were usurped in the 1878 Bannock War.
