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Ryman LeBeau: Native nations must remind America of the truth (December 20, 2024)
America honors the Constitution and our Treaties when it respects our Freedom as Native Nations. 
‘We’re not done’: Indian Country legislation crawls through Congress (December 13, 2024)
Another batch of Indian Country bills is making its way through the 118th Congress, with only about a week left for tribal nations to see success. 
‘We’re going to get this done’: Time running out for Indian Country legislation (November 25, 2024)
With time quickly running out in the 118th Congress, a leading Democratic lawmaker is laying down the law when it comes to advancing Indian Country’s legislative interests. 
Michell Hicks: Republican lawmaker owes an apology to tribal nations (November 25, 2024)
Tribal governments have struggled, fought, and bled for centuries to exist and maintain our cultures. 
AUDIO: Republican lawmaker blocks Wounded Knee sacred site bill (November 22, 2024)
The U.S. Senate considers Indian Country legislation on November 21, 2024, during which Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) blocked a bill to protect the Wounded Knee massacre site in South Dakota. 
VIDEO: Republican lawmaker blocks Wounded Knee sacred site bill (November 22, 2024)
Sen. Thom Tillis (R-North Carolina) is blocking a bill that would protect the Wounded Knee massacre site in South Dakota. 
Ryman LeBeau: Rescind the Wounded Knee Massacre medals (November 18, 2024)
Until the Wounded Knee Massacre medals are rescinded, America’s Medals of Honor will always bear the stain of mass murder. 
Coalition of Large Tribes: ‘This trauma feels very fresh’ (October 25, 2024)
“Indigenous communities have been subjected to trauma at every scale and dimension imaginable,” said COLT Vice Chairman Tracy King. 
Native America Calling: Native Bookshelf with Tommy Orange (March 5, 2024)
In his new novel, Tommy Orange weaves together the complex history of the Indian boarding school era as witnessed by the ancestors to the characters in his best-selling debut. 
Howard Center: Tribes in uphill battle against lithium mining (February 5, 2024)
Tribal communities are on the frontlines of a push to create new, domestic sources for lithium. 
Seth Tupper: Medals still on the books for slaughter of Lakota people (January 22, 2024)
“I have never heard of a more brutal, cold-blooded massacre than at Wounded Knee,” an Army general wrote of the killings of more than 400 Lakota people on December 29, 1890.
OJ and Barb Semans: Indigenous people of this country understand suffering (November 27, 2023)
Since Columbus arrived in 1492, we have been struggling to protect our communities, our way of life and Mother Earth. 
Leaders of New Mexico’s Pueblo tribes are speaking out following the near deadly shooting of a Native activist on their homelands.
Racist violence reared its ugly head again when a Native man was shot on Pueblo homelands during a peaceful protest against colonization in northern New Mexico.
Native America Calling: Growing recognition to change offensive place names (September 21, 2023)
Until this month, one of Colorado’s highest peaks was named for the former state governor who fostered and supported the Sand Creek Massacre in 1864. 
H.R.3371, Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act (September 19, 2023)
The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.3371, the Wounded Knee Massacre Memorial and Sacred Site Act, on September 18, 2023. 
House committee advances slate of Indian Country bills (June 14, 2023)
Bipartisanship seemed to be on rare display on Capitol Hill as lawmakers advanced a trio of bills benefiting Indian Country. 
Private and public lands are slowly being returned to the care of Native peoples across the country.
Lakota citizens met to discuss the return of items taken from their ancestors during the Wounded Knee Massacre of December 1890.
Native Sun News Today: Wounded Knee descendants left out of repatriation process (November 28, 2022)
The descendants of Chief Spotted Elk, a Lakota leader who was murdered at Wounded Knee in 1890, are speaking out. 
Alan Parker, a citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribe, had a profound impact on law and policy in Indian Country.
Native Sun News Today: Memorial ride honors lives lost at Wounded Knee (August 24, 2022)
On a Saturday evening, one could hear the low throaty growl of motorcycle engines coming from a distance, in honor of the ancestors killed at Wounded Knee. 
Many times over the past 30 years, Tim Giago shared the story behind the founding of Native American Day in South Dakota.
Native America Calling: Black Wall Street (February 9, 2022)
As the nation just marked the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre along what was known as Black Wall Street, there’s one story that is largely overlooked. 
A deadline is fast approaching for the Biden administration to live up to its promise to improve the federal government’s relationship with tribes and their citizens.
Rodney Bordeaux: The truth about America’s genocide (August 23, 2021)
Humanity mandates decisions based upon mutual consent between the United States and Native Sovereign Nations. 
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.
No nation can truly prosper when any of its citizens are victims of discrimination.
Reconciliation Rising: Darren Parry (March 19, 2021)
Darren Parry, a former chairman of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone Nation, has worked to tell the story of the Bear River Massacre. 
Jim Kent: Sometimes the truth hurts in Indian Country (January 14, 2021)
People who think the world revolves around them do tend to expect everyone else to share their belief.
Tim Giago: Telling the other side of the story (January 8, 2021)
As the publisher of a Native newspaper for more than 40 years I have accepted criticism as a state of mind. 
Native Sun News Today Editorial: A month of tragedies for our people (December 23, 2020)
December has not been kind to the people of the Great Sioux Nation, but as survivors we continue to carry on our spirituality and traditions. 
Tim Giago: Will America ever own up to its sins at Wounded Knee? (December 21, 2020)
America has not apologized for the Wounded Knee Massacre and the Medal of Honor winners are still looked upon as heroes by the United States. 
Tim Giago: Piya Wiconi is a new beginning (November 10, 2020)
We call this time Piya Wiconi, a new life and a new beginning. 
Cronkite News: Push continues for national indigenous holiday (October 14, 2020)
Native people finally celebrated Indigenous Peoples’ Day as an official holiday in Arizona – but it was a win with an asterisk.
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