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Stateline: Tribes tackle broadband disparities in Indian Country (January 22, 2024)
In 2020, more than 18% of people on tribal lands lacked access to broadband, compared with about 4% in non-tribal areas. 
Native America Calling: Assessing the White House Tribal Nations Summit (December 11, 2023)
In the wake of the White House Tribal Nations Summit, Native America Calling talks with tribal leaders about the Biden administration’s track record. 
The Conversation: Mohawk Mothers keep fighting to protect lost children (October 17, 2023)
Debates over what “mapping” means show how Indigenous communities still have to advocate for and defend their cartographic methods in order to uphold their connections to the land. 
The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe is making history with a new housing project in the state of New York.
New York bans use of Native mascots in public schools (April 20, 2023)
Public schools in New York will no longer be allowed to use mascots, symbols or depictions of Native people. 
Native food sovereignty figure admits no tribal connections (October 21, 2022)
A scholar who has made a name for herself in Native food sovereignty has vowed to stop claiming to be of “Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descent” despite doing so for decades. 
Doug George-Kanentiio: Honoring a true Mohawk patriot (September 19, 2022)
Richard Thasriwasatse Oakes changed our culture, our politics, our economies. 
John Fadden Kahionhes was a legend in the most profound sense of the word.
No Native entity knows the answers and to truly heal we need our children returned to our homes.
One of the intents of the Canadian and U.S. governments in creating the boarding-residential schools was to alienate indigenous people from their ancestral lands.
Nothing will be done for us without us. No one may speak on our behalf without our express approval.
The Haudenosaunee Nationals women’s team is on a winning streak at the World Lacrosse games.
Doug George-Kanentiio: Indigenous peoples continue to endure (June 16, 2022)
We can see that the Americans are engaged in vicious cycles of self destruction. 
Native America Calling: ‘Walking iron’ (May 16, 2022)
The story of Mohawk ironworkers building the skyline of New York is legendary. 
Young Native woman sounds alarm about violence in Indian Country (April 22, 2022)
A prominent photographer who built a sizable following online with posts featuring Native women and girls is stepping out of the spotlight after survivors came forward with accounts of trauma. 
Tens of thousands of Native children suffered abuse at residential schools run by the Catholic Church, all with the compliance of the Canadian government.
Doug George-Kanentiio: How the Mohawks gave maple syrup to the world (March 17, 2022)
The Maple Tree (Wahta in Mohawk) is recognized by the Iroquois people as the representative of all trees. 
Self-proclaimed ‘Auntie’ admits being wrong about tribal affiliations (January 24, 2022)
A social media figure who built a following by creating “Native” content is backing away from her tribal affiliation claims. 
Doug George-Kanentiio: On my journey with Joanne Shenandoah (December 6, 2021)
As soon as Jo entered the room, I knew with certainty we would marry, but she did not. 
True peace will come about when Native residential school children, now buried, arise and are returned to the embrace of their ancestors in their home territories.
People ask why the residential-boarding school survivors, their respective families and supporters wear orange.
Almost 2,000 Native children have been found on the grounds of former residential schools and thousands more have yet to be located.
Reservation Dogs is a half-hour comedy that follows four Native teenagers in Oklahoma whose dream is to get to California.
The Akwesasne community demonstrated in the most powerful way its desire to address the terrible effects residential schools have had on the people.
Google Doodle celebrates Mohawk activist Mary Two-Axe Earley (June 28, 2021)
Mohawk activist Mary Two-Axe Earley, who fought for the equal treatment of Native women in Canada, is the Google Doodle for June 28, 2021. 
Give us back our lands so that we might be restored to the embrace of the earth.
Two artists who admit they aren’t enrolled in any tribal nation have still managed to find their way into museums and educational institutions.
Doug George-Kanentiio: The origins of the Iroquois people (January 11, 2021)
Watch the stars and your direction home will be revealed. 
Doug George-Kanentiio: Why the Mohawk people never had ‘chiefs’ (January 4, 2021)
We must have the women take charge in Mohawk society.
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