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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.
For the first time in a century, Native people have a voice in how a massive collection of pottery is treated.
The tribal casino industry has rebounded dramatically despite the ongoing challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic, with revenues reaching a record high.
A film crew follows an Inuit and Gwich’in hunter as he builds a traditional Inuvialuit log cabin off the grid.
Tim Giago left an indelible mark on journalism that can never be erased.
Many times over the past 30 years, Tim Giago shared the story behind the founding of Native American Day in South Dakota.
A report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention paints a distressing increase in overdose deaths among Native people.
Dawn Walker has been accused of faking her disappearance and that of her child in a case that attracted widespread attention in Canada.
President Jonathan Nez of the Navajo Nation has a new running mate as he seeks a second term in office. His rival, meanwhile, made a historic announcement of his own.
Democrats are claiming an election season achievement with the passage of a massive bill that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in climate and energy investments in Indian Country.
No Native entity knows the answers and to truly heal we need our children returned to our homes.
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