Teams of Native junior and high school students are competing to build the best robots.
Tribes are getting their applications in for funds from the second round of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program.
It’s #NAFOAFall23 Week! More than 800 tribal leaders, financial professionals, and industry experts are in attendance in Arizona.
Twitter is one of the social media outlets that help individuals connect with each other — but is it worth it for Native users?
More than 800 tribal leaders and finance professional in Indian Country are in the nation’s capital for NAFOA’s 41st annual conference.
Ojibwe inventor Danielle Boyer is on a quest to make technology more accessible to interested Native students.
ICT, the news publication formerly known as Indian Country Today, will no longer be posting new content on Twitter.
From growing hemp to fighting pipelines, Winona LaDuke has launched a large number of organizations, businesses and initiatives. Here’s a look at some of her environmental efforts.
A lithium mine in Nevada is considered an environmental and cultural affront to tribal nations.
The usage of artificial intelligence is raising questions about copyright protections for Native creatives and concerns about appropriation.
For all its faults, Twitter is an effective means for sharing and discussing Native issues, culture, language, and business.
Among the deluge of podcasts, Native producers are tackling subjects ranging from mental health and sobriety, issues within their own tribes, and language revitalization.
All those living on the Cherokee Nation Reservation need the ability to participate in the digital economy.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a roundtable to address spectrum access for Native communities.
Nicole Aunapu Mann is scheduled to become the first Indigenous woman in space with the launch of NASA’s SpaceX Crew Dragon.
The Biden administration is working to improve high-speed internet in American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities.
Lynn Malerba, the chief of the Mohegan Tribe, is taking on a prominent role in the Biden administration.
NAFOA provides resources on every aspect needed for thriving tribal communities.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds an oversight hearing on “Setting New Foundations: Implementing the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act for Native Communities.”
For several months, the Native community and allies have been conducting a campaign to slow down the development of the East Bank of the Cumberland River that flows through Nashville.
5G wireless technology promises to revolutionize everything from business transactions to online gaming but what about Indian Country?
Tribal governments have “a foot in the door” with the federal government but they don’t yet have a seat at the table, said National Congress of American Indians President Fawn Sharp.
Native Americans and Alaska Natives are the most vulnerable to domestic violence.
Many tribal nations did not have the broadband access needed to apply for the funding that would let them improve broadband access, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs was told.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds a roundtable discussion on January 12, 2022.
With billions of dollars in infrastructure funding in the works, the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is looking at the lack of broadband technology in Native communities.
2022 is a BIG year for NAFOA!
Native America Calling will talk with Indigenous scholars about acceptance and recognition of Indigenous knowledge and science in academia in light of so many past efforts to suppress them.
Indigenous students have been rendered virtually invisible in higher education.
Democrats continue to press for action against Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) for a violent cartoon video that appears to show him attacking rival politicians.
From the missing and murdered crisis to sacred sites, the Biden administration is touting its Indian Country agenda as it hosts the White House Tribal Nations Summit.
A $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that includes billions of dollars in investments for Indian Country is finally over the finish line on Capitol Hill.
History was made as two citizens of the Navajo Nation broadcast a college football game in the Dine language for the first time.
The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of is one step closer to providing access to improved broadband services in Southeast Alaska.
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The American Jobs Plan will bring an additional $12 billion in much-needed infrastructure to Indian Country.
When the federal government invests in Indian Country, it is not only tribal citizens who benefit.
Indian Country is strongest when we work together.
“This could be a first-ever patent for a tribal college,” said the president of Diné College on the Navajo Nation.
Incorporating Indigenous practices like talking circles into health care treatment isn’t new but has grown in significance during COVID-19.
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