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The House Committee on Natural Resources holds a markup to consider the Requirements, Expectations, and Standard Procedures for Effective Consultation with Tribes Act.
As Russia works to forcibly annex a neighboring country, it’s instructive to recount the nation’s checkered history among Alaska Natives.
Santee Lewis, the executive director of the Navajo Nation Washington Office, announced her departure after three years on the job.
The ongoing invasion of Ukraine has brought expressions of support and solidarity in Indian Country.
A long-overdue update to the Violence Against Women Act is finally becoming law to protect more women, children and elders in tribal communities.
NAFOA turns 40 next month! Celebrate with us!
Social workers change lives every day. They serve our people – from newborns to elders – when they most need help.
Tribal leaders are hopeful for more economic development opportunities through long-overdue updates to the Buy Indian Act.
As this year’s tax filing deadline approaches, millions of people are still waiting for refunds from the IRS from last year.
Joe Biden is a man of vision — he is working to “Restore the Soul of America.”
It is high time that Indian organizations stand up and truly represent the people they claim to represent.
Sunshine Suzanne Sykes, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is one step closer to becoming a federal judge.
The Senate Committee on the Judiciary holds an executive business meeting to consider pending nominations on March 10, 2022.
Shinnecock Nation artists feature prominently in an all-Indigenous exhibition in New York.
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.
Native athletes, along with their parents and loved ones, are gearing up for important basketball match-ups and tournaments.
The federal agency charged with providing health care to more than 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives has gone without a permanent leader for six of the last seven years.
The $1.5 trillion omnibus will fund Indian Country programs and expand recognition of tribal sovereignty under the Violence Against Women Act.
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear a case that challenges the Indian Child Welfare Act.
With funding for Indian Country programs set to run out unless Congress acts, developments are fast-moving on Capitol Hill.
The Dakota Access Pipeline continues to trespass on the territory of the Great Sioux Nation and endanger the lives of our people.
The House Committee on Natural Resources holds a hearing titled “Examining the History of Federal Lands and the Development of Tribal Co-Management.”
Sunshine Suzanne Sykes, a citizen of the Navajo Nation, is hoping to become the first Native federal judge in the entire state of California.
The dehumanization threatens tribal national existence; without the People, there are no nations.
Nobody within the Cherokee Nation Reservation should have to live without access to safe, running water.
The countdown to #NAFOA40th is on! Have you registered yet?
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President Joe Biden delivered an address that toggled between plans for tackling domestic challenges and reasserting U.S. international leadership.
For more than 150 years, Sequoyah Schools have been a safe place for Cherokee and Native youth to live, learn and grow.
The Moapa Band of Paiute Indians is on a roll when it comes to solar energy on tribal homelands in Nevada.
Myron Lizer, the often controversial vice president of the Navajo Nation who recently declared his ‘love’ for Donald Trump, is running for U.S. Congress.
Melissa Isaac, a citizen of the Saginaw Chippewa Tribe, made waves as a guest of First Lady Dr. Jill Biden at the State of the Union.
A Democratic-led bill working its way through Congress would extend the federal policy of consultation to people who have recently been asserting an Indian identity.
The fate of the Indian Child Welfare Act is in the hands of the highest court in the land.
Long before it was a national park, Yellowstone was an important place for at least two dozen tribes.
The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota, home to a massive amount of natural gas flaring, is battling for regulatory control over this wasteful practice.
A federal appeals court ruled that a Navajo tribal citizen who held his girlfriend while he assaulted her cannot also be convicted of kidnapping.
The most prominent “Indigenous” group in New York City is responding to concerns about Regan Loggans, also known as Regan de Loggans.
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Wisconsin is the latest state to pass a slate of new voting laws that put up barriers for many voters, including Native ones.
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