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Indian educators and advocates are testifying about the impacts of closing the Department of Education.
During a three-month period in 2024, 15 Indigenous people died either in custody or from direct interactions with police in Canada.
The vast majority of Native students attend schools funded through the Department of Education, the cabinet agency that President Donald Trump wants to shut down.
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs is holding a field hearing to mark the 50th anniversary of the self-determination era.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is taking a look at programs at the Department of Education that serve Native students.
Friends, family, community members and dignitaries honored the life of Raúl Grijalva, who championed Native causes during his 12 terms in the U.S. Congress.
“As a veteran who used VA care, I know intimately the importance of having a health care system our veterans and their families can rely on,” said Sen. Ruben Gallego (D-Arizona).
An archive of Indigenous punk history is taking shape in California.
The #NAFOA2025 conference is coming up soon!
Cherokee Nation is proud to be a matrilineal society where the strength of women is central to our identity.
From restored hunting and fishing rights for the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians to a new Native-run restaurant, find out what’s on The Menu with Native America Calling.
For the first time in decades, tribes in the Pacific Northwest will be able to forage for wild huckleberries in a national forest without competition from commercial companies.
The Department of the Interior, the federal agency with the most trust and treaty responsibilities in Indian Country, has just one Senate-confirmed leader in office.
The Department of Health and Human Services is eliminating 20,000 full-time employees, according to a fact sheet.
“We aren’t just reducing bureaucratic sprawl. We are realigning the organization with its core mission and our new priorities in reversing the chronic disease epidemic,” said Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
Significant changes are in development at the Social Security Administration. What does that mean for Native elders?
Shadow Devereaux — also known as Foreshadow — is the first artist to participate in a new fund in Montana.
Arizona ranks third for the highest number of cases of missing Indigenous people.
Another regulatory action has made it over the finish line at the Bureau of Indian Affairs amid a government-wide freeze ordered by President Donald Trump.
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs is going on the road to mark the 50th anniversary of the self-determination era.
Long COVID affects as many as 23 million Americans, including many Native people.
The unpredictable availability of salmon and other fish is putting additional pressures on the subsistence rights of Alaska Natives.
Dismantling the Department of Education could severely impact the government’s ability to meet its legal and moral commitments to Tribal Nations and their citizens, the American Indian Higher Education Consortium said.
“Our membership has been listening carefully to the conversations around sports betting legislation in Oklahoma,” said Matthew L. Morgan, chairman of the Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association.
“Great Plains reservation communities are continuing to deal with a public safety crisis,” said Sen. Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota), a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
“One of the federal government’s core trust and treaty responsibilities to American Indians, Native Hawaiians, and Alaska Natives is to provide education,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), the vice chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
“This is not just an administrative change – it’s an attack on the fundamental right of Native students to a quality education that reflects their identity, history, and sovereignty,” said NCAI President Mark Macarro.
NAFOA is only a month away from the 43rd annual conference in New Orleans!
Service is not just a program — it’s a way of life for the Cherokee people.
Native Hawaiian writer Norma Kawelokū Wong tells us our current reality is “drifting haphazardly in the riptide of collapse.”
Public Law 280 continues to be the source of unresolved law enforcement and public safety issues in Indian Country.
Potential cuts to Medicare and Medicaid are causing uncertainty as Republicans, encouraged by President Donald Trump, push for drastic changes.
What’s on your Native Playlist? Tune in for new music from Morgan Toney, Tanaya Winder and The Reztones.
As Congress mulls potentially massive cuts to Medicaid, health centers that serve Native communities are bracing for catastrophe.
Prominent Native figures in U.S. military history have been erased from the Department of Defense’s website thanks to Donald Trump.
Regulatory activity has ground to a halt at the Bureau of Indian Affairs but one pro-tribal action has made it over the finish line in the era of Donald Trump.
“Closing the Department of Education would provide children and their families the opportunity to escape a system that is failing them,” President Donald Trump said.
“We are sending education back to the states where it so rightly belongs,” said Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
Raúl Grijalva was known as a champion of tribal issues as a leader on the House Committee on Natural Resources.
Tune in to hear about the contributions of Athabascan elder Katie John, Chickasaw aviator Eula Pearl Carter Scott and other notable Native women.
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