Nearly every American has forever chemicals in their body. But information specific to Native people is limited.
Survivors of nuclear testing and uranium mines are ramping up pressure on Congress to reauthorize a federal compensation program that expired in June.
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The shipment of uranium ore from the new Pinyon Plain Mine near the Grand Canyon has outraged leaders of the Navajo Nation. 
Indian Country is already suffering from a food shortage crisis and problems will only get worse under a government shutdown, lawmakers were told at a crowded hearing on Capitol Hill. 
Thank you to the amazing people who worked at the National Indian Health Board: You save lives. 
Tribal leaders, joined by lawmakers from both parties, are demanding answers from the Biden administration about a food shortage crisis that has hit the most vulnerable in Indian Country.
“If there’s one thing that makes a Montanan a Montanan, it’s freedom,” said Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana).
As students head back into the classroom, they’ll find many of their fellow classmates are … not there.
Arizona is the only state that cuts off abortion access at 15 weeks, a restriction that advocates are hoping to ease.
Opioids and other addictive substances have taken a heavy toll on Cherokee families and communities.
The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians is celebrating a new agreement with the Indian Health Service that will allow the tribe to expand its operations.
American Indian and Alaska Native people suffer the highest syphilis infection rates of any group in the country.
Researchers in the United States have concluded that a large coal-mining operation in British Columbia is sending pollution more than 350 miles downstream into rivers used by tribes.
The Indian Health Service is observing World Water Week with visits to infrastructure sites in tribal communities across the nation.
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The National Indian Health Board has parted ways with its top executive, having “lost faith” in Stacy Bohlen, who had worked for the inter-tribal organization for more than 20 years.
The top executive at the largest tribal health organization in the U.S. has been placed on leave following unspecified allegations.
The San Carlos Apache Tribe will be asking the Biden administration for more assistance following a 21-hour power outage on the reservation in Arizona.
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U.S. service members from more than 50 units across the country arrived in Montana for Operation Walking Shield on the Blackfeet Nation
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs holds a legislative hearing on July 24, 2024.
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs is taking up four bills at a legislative hearing.
Indian Country is set for a busy week in the nation’s capital, coming after the GOP convention and the end of Democratic President Joe Biden’s re-election campaign.
Cherokee culture is best protected when it’s celebrated and shared.
“Just because a scientist says something doesn’t mean it’s true,” a first-term Republican lawmaker said.
A Republican politician who derided Indigenous Peoples’ Day as “fake” is Donald Trump’s running mate.
The fact that Native people in Oklahoma have a 17-year shorter life expectancy than our non-Indigenous neighbors is more than a statistic — it represents countless lives cut short.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds a legislative hearing on July 10, 2024.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds a legislative hearing on July 10, 2024.
More than half of Native elders from rural areas have some sort of cognitive impairment, a condition that ranges from mild memory loss all the way to dementia.
A federal program to compensate people exposed to fallout from U.S. nuclear testing expired, leaving countless Navajo Nation residents in limbo.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is getting back to work with a hearing on four bills.
The Klamath Tribes are seeking justice following the deaths of two young sisters from their community in Oregon.
A bipartisan bill would relocate some of the 20,500 buffalo on public lands to tribal lands.
A chaotic and heated scene played out in the nation’s capital as a Native activist advocated for tribal sovereignty on the steps of the highest court in the land.
Candi Brings Plenty discusses Indigenous womb sovereignty at the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2024.
Candi Brings Plenty delivers a land acknowledgment in front of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 24, 2024.
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court upheld access to a widely used abortion drug, tossing out an effort to take mifepristone off the market across the country.
A half dozen Indigenous leaders are getting a boost for incorporating traditional connections with making people and their communities better.
A study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds Indigenous people suffer a higher percentage of heat-related deaths than any other population.