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“Prey” features Native talent and the Comanche language. It’s now streaming on Hulu.
A new documentary applies a wide-angle lens to a personal story of adoption and assimilation of an Indian child.
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi is mourning the loss of Rep. Jackie Walorski (R-Indiana) and two of her staffers who were killed in a car crash.
For Native students, attending college is more than just their own personal achievement.
How has another year of COVID-19 affected the Indian gaming industry? We will soon find out with new revenue figures.
The city of Gallup, New Mexico, is marking 100 years of celebrating the region’s Indigenous culture with events like a parade and traditional song and dance.
There’s a widespread and growing mental health crisis among U.S. teachers – a problem so grim that many are leaving the field.
Domestic violence experienced by Native people is an extension of the harmful effects of colonization.
The Cherokee Nation, Chickasaw Nation, Choctaw Nation, Muscogee Nation and Seminole Nation signed treaties that include provisions addressing formerly enslaved persons in their territories.
It has my honor and privilege to be associated with Tim Giago for 17 years.
Tim Giago wore many hats in his long, eventful life. He was a son, a brother, an uncle, a grandfather, a sailor, a poet, a businessman, an entrepreneur, a talk show host, a journalist, an editor, an author, and a publisher.
The U.S. government is in a state of “moral paralysis” on the recurrence of mass shootings.
Heat, COVID and monkeypox are all health threats that are looming this summer.
Landowners from the Fort Belknap Indian Community have until August 12 to accept offers from the Land Buy-Back Program for Tribal Nations.
Uplifting voices and opportunities from our community members and partners.
The Cherokee Nation Film Office has continued to break barriers and bring significant transformations to Indian Country.
The pictures of Pope Francis wearing a headdress spurred controversy across the globe — and across social media.
Today on Native America Calling, Andi Murphy hosts the Indigenous food show The Menu.
The House Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a legislative hearing on H.R.5549, the Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act.
The son of a single mother on Isleta Pueblo, Miguel Trujillo became an important figure in civil rights history.
The Republican governor of South Dakota has once again been turned away in court over efforts to set off fireworks in the sacred Black Hills.
Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, delivers remarks at Maskwacis Park in Alberta, Canada.
The House Committee on Natural Resources meets for a markup on H.R.2021, the Environmental Justice For All Act.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds an oversight hearing titled “Select Provisions of the 1866 Reconstruction Treaties between the United States and Oklahoma Tribes.”
Today on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce remembers the Native ’90s as part of the “Through The Decades” series.
Among racial and ethnic groups, Native people face the highest rates of suicide in the United States.
The Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association is getting ready for its conference and trade show.
Advocates for eliminating blood quantum say it’s necessary to ensure future generations of thriving tribal culture.
Religious communities, bishops and popes were variously complicit in a system that dispossessed Indigenous peoples and cruelly oppressed their children at Native residential schools.
The founder of modern Indian journalism has passed on. Tim Giago was 88 years old.
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One of the intents of the Canadian and U.S. governments in creating the boarding-residential schools was to alienate indigenous people from their ancestral lands.
Nothing will be done for us without us. No one may speak on our behalf without our express approval.
Whatever our disagreements may be today, nothing compares to what divided the Cherokee people 183 years ago.
Jim Thorpe, from the Sac and Fox Nation, was the first Native person to win gold medals for the United States.
Indian Country’s most celebrated chef is facing calls for greater accountability after hiring a domestic violence offender.
Participating in governing is a time honored and sacred tradition in our Indigenous communities.
A number of Native artists are among those perfecting the growing trend of public murals.
Since tribes are sovereign nations, with their own laws, could they offer abortion services on their lands within states that may soon outlaw abortion?
Getting access to Colorado River water is “the only feasible solution” for the Hualapai Tribe, Chairman Damon Clarke said.
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