Bureau of Indian Affairs

A federal magistrate is recommending a former Bureau of Indian Affairs law enforcement officer pay $1.6 million to the woman he coerced into sex and impregnated while he was on duty.

The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on missing and murdered Native and Indigenous women on Wednesday demanded answers from the Bureau of Indian Affairs on the epidemic of missing and murdered persons in Indian country.

KTVQ.com reports that Bryan Rice has been named the new director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke announced on Monday.  Rice began his government career in Montana, and most recently led the Interior Office of Wildland Fire, and led forestry and tribal programs for the federal government, according to Zinke’s office...

An unidentified 30-year-old Lame Deer man has been hospitalized, and his unidentified suspected assailant is in custody following the alleged assault. Travis Burrows of the FBI Field Office in Billings said the assault happened on Sunday morning...

The theft of a hard drive that contained personal information on members of two Montana tribes constitutes a data breach.  The Bureau of Indian Affairs said late Tuesday that more than 20,000 members of the Montana Crow and Northern Cheyenne Tribes were notified that an external hard drive was stolen last month from an agency law enforcement vehicle in Big Horn County...

A prolonged vehicle chase on Saturday morning involving multiple law enforcement agencies, which began south of Hardin, ended in Yellowstone County with the peaceful arrest of one man in Billings.  The incident began just before 11 a.m...

The federal Bureau of Indian Affairs ended its contract with the Two Rivers Detention facility a year ago, but the agency may be returning to Hardin.  Officials confirmed that the BIA is holding talks to potentially work out a lease to get the prison going again, according to Jon Matovich, chairman of the Two Rivers Authority Commission...