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Native America Calling will talk about some steps you can take to get yourself financially ready for 2022.
A bipartisan bill that will help school districts with Indian Country students preserve their Impact Aid funding is set to clear the 117th Congress.
Dr. Martin Luther King often included Native people in his push to end racial oppression and segregationist policies.
With COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations reaching a new record high, the U.S. Supreme Court put the Biden administration’s vaccine-or-test mandate for large employers on hold, while litigation continues over its legality.
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.
Join Native America Calling to get tips from the pros about what it takes to be a face in the movie crowd.
The Indian Health Service is expanding opportunities for Indian-owned businesses with a new rule for the Buy Indian Act.
A trial has opened into the long-unsolved case of Sophie Sergie, an Alaska Native woman who was killed at the age of 20 nearly three decades ago.
A supporter of federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe made a special presentation during a hearing on Capitol Hill.
The Nooksack Tribe’s efforts to expel 306 former citizens has reached a breaking point again.
Aaron Payment, the prominent leader of the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, is losing his national positions after being censured by his board of directors.
Wozek Chandler works to find success in the mainstream while maintaining her tribal culture and celebrating her history.
The U.S. Supreme Court heard nearly four hours of oral arguments over the Biden administration’s COVID-19 vaccine requirements.
The Wilma Mankiller quarter features an image of the first woman elected to lead the Cherokee Nation.
In a sit-down conversation with Underscore.news, Chuck Sams, the country’s first Native American parks director, discusses the role his agency can play in better representing Indigenous people and their stories.
I tell all writers then and now, if you come out to Indian Country to write about us, do your damned homework.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds a roundtable discussion on January 12, 2022.
A thriving group of Laguna Pueblo citizens maintain their tribal connections at a distance. Learn more about this unique colony on Native America Calling.
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.
Groups claiming to be tribal sovereigns has reached a new level of concern for the Shawnee Tribe.
We want to wish all of our readers a very Happy New Year and hope that 2022 brings you the best.
Native political watchers are giving their insights into the major issues likely to make waves in the coming year.
Indian boarding schools were established in the 19th and 20th centuries with the primary objective of assimilating Native youth by denying the use of their languages, dress and other cultural aspects.
Rodeo events have long been a part of culture on the Navajo Nation. The COVID-19 pandemic upended the tradition.
2022 is a BIG year for NAFOA!
Join Native America Calling to learn more out the barriers for people with a criminal past and ways to overcome them.
The Department of the Interior is soliciting nominations for a new advisory panel that will examine racist and derogatory place names.
With a dialogue entirely in the Blackfeet language, a new film is an exercise in language revitalization.
Tribal communities are once again seeing an explosion in COVID-19 cases following the busy holiday season and as a new and highly contagious variant brings upheaval to Indian Country.
The Advisory Council on Historic Preservation has named a new director for its Office of Native American Affairs.
Cherokee Nation citizens will soon have better access to world-class health care.
The Bureau of Indian Education has unveiled its first official logo, based on a design from a student.
In response to ongoing tragedies and increased reports of human trafficking attempts, the Yurok Tribe declared a missing and murdered Indigenous women emergency.
Leaders in the largest city in New Mexico are convening a series of “community conversations” to address the harmful legacy of the Indian boarding school era.
Some residents of the Passamaquoddy Pleasant Point Reservation have either hauled water or used bottled water for years, even decades.
Let’s give due reverence to the United American Indians of New England who since 1970 have held a “National Day of Mourning” to honor Native resilience.
The unholy impact of Indian boarding schools left its mark to the detriment of thousands of Native children.
Tribes and their advocates are studying ways to strengthen state laws as the Indian Child Welfare Act remains in limbo in the courts.
Cahokia in Phoenix, Arizona, touts itself as the first modern Indigenous art and social space owned by women.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in the McGirt case is forcing significant changes in Oklahoma.
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