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“The tribe’s commitment to make a positive impact on our local community has never been stronger as we all persevere through the pandemic,” said Bob Peters, Chairman of the Match-E-Be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians.
“It breaks my heart every day to watch it happen and watch TC Energy dig up the earth and go under our rivers and waterways,” said Lakota activist TaSina Sapa Win.
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The Grinch came early this year, ransacking a popular youth program on the Pine Ridge Reservation and leaving some in the tribal community wondering who could be so heartless.
As publisher of a Native newspaper, we reach into a community underserved or never served by the mainstream media.
Native people have a higher average number of household members than the general population, ramping up the chances for COVID-19 infection in the home.
With a shortage of beds, oxygen and staff, the Navajo Nation can no longer depend on regional aid and is sending critical patients farther afield for health care.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals hears arguments in Shawnee Tribe v. Steven Mnuchin, a dispute over COVID-19 relief funds.
Wearing face masks is proven to be effective for slowing the spread of the coronavirus but resistance remains.
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way we work, get an education, get health care, buy groceries, apply for assistance, search for jobs and more.
Indigenous Fashion Week Toronto once again took the world by storm, only virtually this time around.
In the heat of one of the worst COVID-19 outbreaks in Montana, one county is being accused of putting politics before public health.
Democrat Mark Kelly can drop “Senator-elect” from his title after being sworn in as the new U.S. Senator from Arizona.
Native America Calling will check in with tribal officials about how delisting gray wolves affects their wildlife management plans.
The Paskenta Band of Nomlaki Indians has signed a new Class III gaming compact with the state of California.
Kyle Edwards, managing editor of Native News Online, will spend the coming year focusing on the impacts of COVID-19 in Native communities.
Fresh shell eggs are now available to 28 more tribes throughout the country, thanks to a fresh produce program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Defense Logistics Agency Troop Support.
With change coming at the highest levels of government, tribal and federal officials are working to ensure the crisis of missing and murdered loved ones in Indian Country remains a priority.
Democrat Mark Kelly will be sworn in as the U.S. Senator from Arizona on December 2, 2020.
As often happens with boys from the Indian boarding schools, we shared a lot of memories, good and bad.
A special U.S. flag honoring the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes was flown over Afghanistan by the Idaho Air National Guard.
Activists worry that the Trump administration is fast-tracking federal approval for a large copper mine on sacred Apache territory in Arizona.
As they have for the past 17 years, Native men and women stood atop a windswept hill overlooking the Missouri River. They prayed for the Native children lost to the state welfare system.
The 18th Annual Memorial March to Honor Our Lost Children took place on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, in Sioux City, Iowa.
Native America Calling is shopping around for the best Native news stories on this day-after-Thanksgiving episode of the news roundup.
We all know that Native Americans have served in the U.S. military at the highest rate per capita for any ethnicity.
The past four years have taken a terrible toll on America.
Over the years Anishinabe artist Keith Secola has brought a lot to our Native communities with his creativity and voice.
It’s been four centuries since the Pilgrims stepped off the Mayflower onto the shores of present day Massachusetts.
The Black Lodge Singers, a powwow drum group led by Kenny ScabbyRobe of the Blackfeet Nation, has earned an eighth nomination for a GRAMMY award.
COVID-19 cases and deaths continue to rise, with tribal people on reservations in Montana and Wyoming seemingly among the hardest hit.
A resolution paves the way to address lands illegally taken from an Indian boarding school in South Dakota.
In Native languages, some of our favorite words and phrases pack much more meaning than any English translation can encompass.
As COVID-19 progressed, the Pueblo of Acoma adopted novel strategies to protect the tribal community and its most vulnerable members.
The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian has received a $5.67 million gift from the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria.
Since the COVID-19 pandemic first reached Cherokee Nation, our people have worked together to protect Cherokees.
In 2020, we are grateful for the contributions of Native Americans, Alaska Natives, and Native Hawaiians make to our country – from business to politics and everything in between.
Despite a federal law ordering their repatriation, thousands of Native ancestors and artifacts remains still languish in boxes and basements across the country.
NAFOA is proud to serve and advocate for tribes.
For the second time in as many years, the U.S. Supreme Court will be taking up a case that impacts the treaty rights of the Crow Tribe.
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