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The nation’s oldest and largest inter-tribal organization opened its annual convention with a competing set of messages about the challenges facing Indian Country.
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation takes health care to a new level (October 6, 2025)
Cherokee Nation is stronger today because we embraced the challenge of self-governance. 
Payments to tribes, law enforcement in tribal communities and health care for tribal citizens are all impacted by the shutdown of the federal government.
Fifty years into the self-determination era, tribal nations are running into new obstacles when it comes to managing programs that serve their people.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs focuses on self-determination and self-governance at an oversight hearing on September 17, 2025.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs focuses on self-determination and self-governance at an oversight hearing on September 17, 2025.
Witness list for Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing on self-determination (September 16, 2025)
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is observing a significant milestone in the era of self-determination and self-governance. 
Lawmakers are siding with tribes when it comes to the budget for the Indian Health Service.
Republican lawmakers are pushing back against drastic cuts to Indian Country programs like law enforcement and school construction.
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs holds an oversight hearing titled “Examining 50 years of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act in Indian Country.”
Native America Calling: The next 50 years of self-governance (April 7, 2025)
It’s been 50 years since the passage of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act. What’s next for tribal self-governance? 
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs holds an oversight hearing titled “Examining 50 years of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act in Indian Country.”
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs is holding a field hearing to mark the 50th anniversary of the self-determination era.
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs is going on the road to mark the 50th anniversary of the self-determination era.
President Joe Biden is highlighting his administration’s Indian Country achievements as he prepares to visit a tribe in Arizona.
With her debut book, award-winning journalist Rebecca Nagle is taking a look at one of the most consequential U.S. Supreme Court decisions in Indian Country.
Native issues take center stage at fiery U.S. Senate debate in Montana (October 1, 2024)
Native issues are playing a big role in the U.S. Senate race in Montana, the outcome of which is being closely watched in an already heated presidential election year. 
United Keetoowah Band expands control of health care programs (August 29, 2024)
The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians is celebrating a new agreement with the Indian Health Service that will allow the tribe to expand its operations. 
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs approves four bills at a business meeting on July 25, 2024.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs approves four bills at a business meeting on July 25, 2024.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (December 11, 2023)
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Secretary Haaland opens third annual White House Tribal Nations Summit (December 6, 2023)
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland delivers remarks at the opening of the third annual White House Tribal Nations Summit. 
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. 
As dangerous smoke cast an ominous shadow over the nation’s capital, tribes and their advocates continue to wait for a series of monumental decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (December 12, 2022)
This holiday season, remember to #BuyNative! 
Alan Parker, a citizen of the Chippewa Cree Tribe, had a profound impact on law and policy in Indian Country.
Together, we must always fight for our Native Peoples, our Native lands.
The COVID-19 pandemic and operational issues are among the major challenges at the Indian Health Service as the agency awaits new leadership.
The federal agency charged with providing health care to more than 2 million American Indians and Alaska Natives has gone without a permanent leader for six of the last seven years.
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation builds a brighter future (August 3, 2021)
When the federal government invests in Indian Country, it is not only tribal citizens who benefit. 
The late Wilma Mankiller, the first woman to serve as Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation, was a beacon for girls and women of all ages and all races.
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) | Native American Contractors Association (February 18, 2021)
Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) discusses economic development in Indian Country and self-governance for tribal nations in a video message to the Native American Contractors Association. 
‘I’m not afraid’: Indicted former Mashpee leader seeks dismissal of charges (February 9, 2021)
The former chairman of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe is speaking out about his criminal corruption case as he seeks to dismiss all of the charges against him. 
President Biden issues tribal consultation and nation-to-nation directive (January 26, 2021)
“The United States has made solemn promises to Tribal Nations for more than two centuries,” says President Joe Biden. 
Deb Haaland tapped for Cabinet by President-elect Joe Biden (December 17, 2020)
In a historic first, Deb Haaland, one of the first two Native women to serve in the U.S. Congress, has been tapped to serve in the incoming Joe Biden administration. 
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs schedules oversight hearing (December 7, 2020)
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will focus on tribal self-governance and cultural sovereignty as the 116th Congress winds down. 
Rep. Haaland statement on Native American Heritage Month (November 2, 2020)
“Native Americans have overcome many hardships since the onset of colonization — genocide, forced relocation and assimilation — but we’re still here,” said Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico). 
The PROGRESS Act, a bipartisan bill to improve tribal self-governance, has finally been signed into law.
President Trump signs tribal self-governance bill into law (October 21, 2020)
President Trump finally signed a tribal self-governance bill into law but he doesn’t plan to follow all of its provisions if he doesn’t feel like it. 
Forgotten no more?: Trump team puts Native people last on ‘important’ call (October 21, 2020)
Just days after their boss bashed Indigenous Peoples Day, members of the Donald Trump administration tried their best to portray the president as someone who cares about the interests of America’s “first” inhabitants.
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