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January, 2024
The Biden administration was a no-show at a hearing called to examine the future of land consolidation efforts in Indian Country.
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs holds an oversight hearing on January 30, 2024.
Soup, sharp knives and nominations for Native-owned businesses are on The Menu, a regular food feature from Native America Calling.
Tribes and advocates are in a constant battle against human trafficking that disproportionately affects Native people and people of color.
Don’t Forget: Applications for Leading People And Investing To Build Sustainable Communities Program (LPIBSC) due this week.
Cherokee minds can change the world. That’s been true throughout our history, and it’s just as true today.
Native families stand to benefit from a child tax credit that’s still under consideration in Congress. What else is new in tax season?
This month marks 30 years since the Zapatista Army of National Liberation attracted worldwide attention with their rebel uprising in demand of Indigenous rights in Mexico.
After 10 years and more than $1.6 billion put in the hands of Indian Country, a successful program that was designed to address a harmful era in federal policy has finally come to a close.
Kansas City’s NFL team has weathered sustained pressure over its mascot and offensive behavior at games. Will it ever change?
The Biden administration’s renewable energy agenda is being tested in court with a lawsuit from tribes opposed to a $4 billion development that runs through their homelands.
The public, states, tribes, the scientific community and other stakeholders are invited to weigh in on a grizzly bear reintroduction plan.
The Ute Tribe is banning non-members from engaging in hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreational activities on its lands in Utah.
In the 51 years since the U.S. Supreme Court recognized – and then reversed – federal abortion protections, advocates and opponents have fought constantly over reproductive rights.
Tribal cultural resources are being threatened by growing demand for renewable energy projects.
The Osage Nation is celebrating a major milestone for a film that shares an otherwise difficult time in the tribe’s history.
Artists like Fritz Scholder and T.C. Cannon are among the masters who inspired new generations of Native artists to express their stories and images through printmaking.
Tribes and Native entities have more time to submit applications for the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program, a national initiative to improve high-speed internet access on Native lands.
Last call for #NAFOA2024 Session Proposals!
The New Mexico Indian Affairs Department has entered the new year with new leadership following controversy in 2023.
Cherokee Nation is working toward the day when no child ever has to wonder where their next meal is coming from, and no parent ever has to worry that they can’t provide healthy nutrition for their kids.
Congress will have until early March to finish work it was supposed to complete last fall under a bill approved with broad bipartisan support.
The federal government is soliciting input on a plan to open public lands to new solar projects.
The U.S. Supreme Court will decide whether the federal government continues to shortchange tribes when it comes to funding health care contracts.
In 2020, more than 18% of people on tribal lands lacked access to broadband, compared with about 4% in non-tribal areas.
“I have never heard of a more brutal, cold-blooded massacre than at Wounded Knee,” an Army general wrote of the killings of more than 400 Lakota people on December 29, 1890.
As dangerously bitter winter weather takes hold of the country, efforts to help unsheltered Native people face closure.
The president of the Navajo Nation is calling on the federal government to open a full-service veterans medical center to the reservation.
It there a disparity when it comes to viable treatments for diabetes among Native people?
A Republican-led bill to ensure tribal identification cards can be used to purchase guns is moving forward despite little debate.
The Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community announced the election of three new council members, including a new chair.
A national oral history project aims to document the experiences of Indigenous children who attended federal boarding schools.
Author, historian and Haskell Indian Nations University professor Daniel Wildcat believes in the power of Indigenous knowledge to counter big problems.
The Winnebago Tribe is suing the federal government to recover the remains of two children who died at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School.
The Upper Mattaponi Tribe has reached a major milestone toward solidifying its federally recognized status.
The House Committee on Natural Resources is hosting a markup to advance two bills of interest in Indian Country.
Stickers and fliers linked to a white nationalist group surfaced on the Montana State University campus, the latest in a wave of such activity across the state.
Three new and upgraded health facilities recently opened in Arizona to provide Native people with better access to health care, and more are in the works.
Award-winning Cherokee actor Wes Studi is making history as the first Native person to appear on the long-running PBS television series Finding Your Roots.
“It’s been a long journey,” said Georgeline Morsette, a citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribe. “I’m really glad to be at this point.”
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