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The practice of celebrating the ancestors started long ago among Indigenous peoples in what is now known as Mexico.
Native America Calling: Protecting sacred sites in urban areas (October 7, 2025)
Sacred sites sometimes get lost in urban settings as cities prioritize the needs of non-Native residents and commercial interests. 
Supreme Court rejects Indian law cases amid U.S. government shutdown (October 6, 2025)
As the shutdown of the federal government enters its first full week, the nation’s highest court remains open for business. 
The Donald Trump administration is questioning how Native history is being presented by the National Park Service.
Michael Steven Wilson was a lay pastor on the Tohono O’odham Nation when he started putting out water for migrants crossing the border.
Native America Calling: Native Bookshelf with Tanya Talaga (July 18, 2025)
Indigenous peoples of Canada know of the horrors that generations of children were forced to endure in residential schools. 
A Republican lawmaker is trying to use the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” to require sales of federal lands.
The violent attacks on lawmakers in Minnesota are a shocking reminder of the pervasive threats that disproportionately target women and people of color.
A border town church is facing criticism for a production that demonizes Navajo ways of life.
“We’re going to fight this until our last breath,” Vanessa Nosie of the Apache Stronghold said of efforts to protect sacred Oak Flat.
The long-running movement to protect Oak Flat from a massive copper mine is gaining renewed attention following a stinging rebuke from a key member of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Five years after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, the Trump administration is ending oversight of law enforcement despite violations of civil rights.
Native America Calling: Ringing in the Orthodox New Year in Alaska (January 14, 2025)
The Orthodox New Year in Alaska is a mix of seal meat, tea cakes, and Native and Slavonic languages. 
South Dakota Searchlight: Republican ousts incumbent Native Democratic lawmaker (November 12, 2024)
Some of South Dakota’s reservations have long been considered Democratic strongholds. Is the picture changing? 
Adria Jawort: ‘Snake Tongue Sheehy’ still won’t apologize to Native people (October 30, 2024)
In true double-down MAGA fashion, I don’t expect Tim Sheehy to apologize to the Crow Tribe or Indigenous peoples of Montana anytime soon for his gross misrepresentation of us. 
Apologies offer hope for continued healing, acknowledgment of a tragic historical record, and movement toward righting a wrong, said the Native American Church of North America.
More than 200 people and four organizations are supporting the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes in denouncing a Republican candidate’s derogatory remarks about Native Americans.
Claudia Sheinbaum has made history as Mexico’s first female president, taking office with promises to improve the nation’s relationship with Indigenous peoples.
Native America Calling: Back (home) to school (September 5, 2024)
As students head back into the classroom, they’ll find many of their fellow classmates are … not there. 
Albert Bender: The theft of tribal land in Oklahoma (August 28, 2024)
The settler state of Oklahoma arose on the backs of it most vulnerable — the Five Tribes who were forced to move there by the U.S. government. 
“The Department’s concluding report on its investigation into federal Indian boarding school policies is an important next step toward a full accounting of the United States’ systemic effort to erase Native identities, languages, and cultures for its own gain,” said Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii).
For the first time, the United States is owning up to its role in the deplorable treatment of children at Indian boarding schools.
The Biden administration has released the long-awaited final volume of its investigation into the genocidal Indian boarding school era.
Cronkite News: Supporters rally for Holocaust education center (February 21, 2024)
Lawmakers in Arizona are advancing plans for the first Holocaust education center in the state, although funding is in debate. 
Native America Calling: Catholicism’s enduring appeal among Native Americans (February 14, 2024)
Thousands of Native Catholics are entering the 40-day time of reflection and sacrifice known as Lent. 
Native America Calling: Tribal traditions and the eclipse (October 13, 2023)
Join Native America Calling to shine a light on some of the tribal traditions surrounding the partial solar eclipse. 
Native America Calling: Pipes: prayer, blessing, and communion (August 7, 2023)
A quarry in Minnesota has been a reliable source for the stone used in ceremonial pipes for dozens of tribes throughout the central U.S. and Canada. 
The Catholic Church formally repudiated a religious doctrine that was used to justify the theft of lands from indigenous peoples in North America.
The highest court in the land is once again taking up a case that will determine whether the United States lives up to its promises to tribal nations.
Efforts to strengthen and improve the Indian Arts and Crafts Act are coming amid criminal cases and renewed claims to Native identities.
An overwhelming majority of Jewish voters in New York’s 3rd Congressional District – 94% – think their freshman Republican representative, George Santos, should resign from Congress over a web of lies about his background.
Forward: Republican enters Congress under extreme scrutiny (January 3, 2023)
A Republican candidate’s lies about his education, employment and even his ethnic background take him all the way to the U.S. Congress. 
Native America Calling: Culture, athleticism and stickball (January 2, 2023)
Stickball is the older, rougher cousin of lacrosse, developed many centuries ago as both a game and a training exercise. 
Mother Jones: Right-wing groups take ICWA to nation’s highest court (November 8, 2022)
The Indian Child Welfare Act set out to fix generations of harm to Native kids. The U.S. Supreme Court could soon toss it aside. 
Native Sun News Today: A brief history of the pow wow (October 4, 2022)
The real history of pow wows is being made by people today, by just having pow wows. 
Native America Calling: Protecting peyote (October 4, 2022)
Native American Church practitioners are working to secure environmental protections for the plant that is losing habitat to development, land use policies, and climate change. 
Native prisoners at the Washington State Penitentiary hosted their first powwow in three years, a 50-year tradition temporarily halted by the Covid-19 pandemic.
Many Canadians are coming to terms with the nation’s history of schooling and settler colonialism.
Apache Stronghold heads back to court to protect sacred Oak Flat (September 6, 2022)
The fight to protect a sacred site from development is once again back in court as defenders of Oak Flat try to stop a huge copper mine on Apache territory. 
Cronkite News: Indian boarding schools confront genocidal legacy (August 30, 2022)
Few dispute that Indian boarding schools led to more than a century of abuse, systematically seizing Indigenous land, separating children from their families, destroying communities and working to erase tribal languages, religions, cultures and economies.
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