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August, 2022
The Lost Trail National Wildlife Refuge is the first created under the tenure of Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native person to lead the Department of the Interior.
Just in time for the mid-term elections, President Joe Biden announced his executive action to extend the current student loan payment pause and forgive up to $20,000 of debt.
Few dispute that Indian boarding schools led to more than a century of abuse, systematically seizing Indigenous land, separating children from their families, destroying communities and working to erase tribal languages, religions, cultures and economies.
Most people did not use logic or reason to arrive at their ideas.
Alan Parker, a citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribe, had a profound impact on law and policy in Indian Country.
The volcanic eruptions near Tonga, Japan, and Ecuador are all making headlines and remind us of the role they play in Indigenous cultures.
John Fadden Kahionhes was a legend in the most profound sense of the word.
The Chinook Nation is supporting its push for federal recognition with the #ChinookJustice campaign.
Former Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke is back in the news but it’s not because of his campaign for public office.
NAFOA works to provide advocacy and resources for all of Indian Country.
For many Cherokees, their greatest source of connection to our tribe is through local Cherokee community organizations.
L.A. Williams is a sports broadcaster from the Navajo Nation. Learn more about her trailblazing career.
What’s on The Menu? Learn more about the Native Farm Bill Coalition and a new restaurant on the Navajo Nation.
There’s a fair amount of romanticizing of historical outlaws like Billy the Kid and Jesse James. But did you know there were Native ones too?
On a Saturday evening, one could hear the low throaty growl of motorcycle engines coming from a distance, in honor of the ancestors killed at Wounded Knee.
NAGPRA has been on the books for 30 years but it’s been slow work to return ancestors and cultural property into the care of tribes.
The Navajo Nation is receiving its first doses of the Monkeypox vaccine as experts and providers in Indian Country respond to the latest public health threat.
The newly-signed Inflation Reduction Act brings millions of dollars in new investments for tribal nations.
We understand that saving the Cherokee language is a mission we quite simply cannot fail.
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The resurgence of language revitalization helps keep cultural connections and exercise sovereignty. But it leaves out those who are visually impaired.
Artists from hundreds of Native nations are tending to their booths in the streets of Santa Fe, New Mexico, selling works they’ve labored for months to prepare.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency announces the release of its National Tribal Strategy.
The Southwestern Association for Indian Arts marks the 100th Santa Fe Indian Market, a place to buy works directly from Native creators.
Join Native America Calling for updates on trouble spots for salmon in Alaska and the Pacific Northwest.
The newly-signed Inflation Reduction Act will bring more than $720 million to American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities, according to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
The Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names will address racist and derogatory terms across the country.
A Native voting rights lawsuit led by Western Native Voice and four tribal governments is underway in Montana.
Citizens of the Oglala Sioux Tribe overwhelmingly voted to legalize recreational and medical marijuana on their homelands.
Elvis Presley’s profound popularity continues to resonate with many Native music fans.
The nation’s oldest and largest inter-tribal advocacy organization has “parted ways” with its highest-ranking employee, who had been on the job for barely a year.
Federal and state abortion restrictions have been interfering with tribal sovereignty for years.
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians is welcoming new members to its governing body.
NAFOA stays on top of the news so you always start your week informed and ready.
A long-running political, legal and environmental dispute over a copper mine on sacred Apache land in Arizona shows no signs of ending anytime soon.
We have a responsibility to step up for our farmers and ranchers in their time of need.
There’s a new surge of efforts to ban books by Native authors and other works that challenge colonial conventional wisdom.
Tribes are among those helping to protect the monarch butterfly, for both cultural and environmental reasons.
The Biden administration is working to improve high-speed internet in American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities.
U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Michael A. Noline was killed in action in Operation Desert Storm.
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