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The Navajo Nation has yet to record a single case of the Delta variant of COVID-19, but tribal citizens are being told to keep up their guard.
Get to know the husband-wife duo Twin Flames, including their work with schools to help youth realize their potential through music and Indigenous culture.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will be hearing from experts in housing, telecommunications and federal policy at a roundtable on infrastructure.
“As Navajo people, we all have parents, grandparents, and other elders who were subjected to boarding schools and that has contributed to many of the modern-day monsters in our society,” said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez.
“The National Congress of American Indians commends the Department of Interior for taking the essential first step of providing an official account of the atrocities that Native children experienced during the boarding school era,” said President Fawn Sharp.
A financial institution established by famed Native banker and activist Elouise Cobell is celebrating a significant investment.
Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Arizona) repeated her refusal to end the filibuster on the same day Republicans used the maneuver to block debate on voting rights legislation.
The first-ever International Indigenous Hip-Hop Awards honored more than a dozen artists for their musical and lyrical talents.
The Department of the Interior is undertaking its first-ever review of Indian boarding school sites and the Indian children who went there. Watch the announcement from Secretary Deb Haaland.
“The federal policies that attempted to wipe out Native identity, language and culture continued to manifest in the pain our communities face,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland announced the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, a comprehensive review of the troubled legacy of federal boarding school policies.
An Oklahoma man has been arrested and charged after citing the Trail of Tears and the Muscogee Nation’s treaty when making violent threats against President Joe Biden.
Yes, it’s Tuesday. NAFOA started off the week in observance of Juneteenth.
Secretary Deb Haaland is addressing the National Congress of American Indians for the first time since taking over the Department of the Interior.
After more than 10 years of fighting, the Keystone XL Pipeline is finally dead.
Water is the source of life. If there are ever any threats to our water we need to address them.
Constrictions on surface and ground water are creating hardships for Native farmers and ranchers.
Tribes and their advocates are breathing a sigh of relief after the nation’s highest court protected a key Indian health care law from a Republican attack.
When Cherokee people come together, great things happen.
A bipartisan bill to ensure that tribes have access to the same public health data as states is once again moving forward on Capitol Hill.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is taking another look at infrastructure in Native communities.
The Tribal Coastal Resiliency Act is up for its first hearing in the 117th Congress.
Native American colon cancer rates are higher than the population as a whole.
Law enforcement reported arresting more than 240 people for participating in a demonstration against a pipeline on Ojibwe treaty territory.
I learned that it was not good to be an “Indian.” We were supposed to forget our language and culture.
Abuse is not okay and it’s not okay to live in fear.
Schools, hospitals and other facilities in Indian Country need billons of dollars in investments.
For Father’s Day, Native America Calling will zero in on the special humor that only Native dads know about.
Why did so many tribal people give up their centuries old beliefs and convert to a foreign religion?
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States hosts an oversight hearing titled, “Examining Federal Facilities in Indian Country.”
Native scholars point to Critical Race Theory as a vital piece in understanding the ongoing legacy of colonialism. But CRT is under attack across the nation.
Several prominent Native nonprofits and institutions have received a major boost from billionaire donor MacKenzie Scott.
The Yakama Nation is celebrating after a federal appeals court confirmed that the tribe has been right all along about its treaty lands.
Indigenous models are making names for themselves and are insisting on better representation in an industry doesn’t always present beauty accurately or sensitively.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States is getting back to work with a hearing on facilities in Indian Country.
After more than a year of battling COVID, life is finally getting closer to normal across the Cherokee Nation.
Native deaths from COVID-19 are already disproportionately higher than the rest of the population.
Give us back our lands so that we might be restored to the embrace of the earth.
After hitting a 40-year low in the pandemic year of 2020, national park visitors – and their dollars – are steadily returning.
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