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AUDIO: Sea Lion Predation in the Pacific Northwest (December 3, 2025)
The House Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries holds a hearing on Sea Lion Predation in the Pacific Northwest. 
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.
Access to land for hunting, fishing and gathering are foundational provisions in many treaties between tribes and the U.S. government.
Aboriginal people in Australia are on the precipice of cementing a historic agreement, the first treaty of its kind for the country.
As the federal government shutdown drags on, tribes are feeling the brunt more than the general population.
The Cowichan Tribes have scored a major victory in court for their land rights in British Columbia. What’s next?
At least 40 tribes in Alaska are opposing a controversial road that President Donald Trump himself approved during the government shutdown.
A warrior. A friend. A mentor. A family man. Indian Country is remembering the late Ernie Stevens, Jr., who passed on at the age of 66.
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 National Museum of the American Indian is under review for exhibits and materials deemed derisive or partisan.
The High Seas Treaty aligns with the goals of many Indigenous peoples. But can it be enforced?
‘Fight like hell’: Federal funding cuts threaten HIV/AIDS programs (September 8, 2025)
Advocates for Americans with HIV and their allies in Congress are vowing to “fight like hell” in the face of funding cuts that they say will cost lives. 
Tribes are raising alarms as the Trump administration rushes to remove protections for more than 58 million acres of federal forest lands.
Native America Calling: The fight for Shinnecock Nation fishing rights (September 1, 2025)
The Shinnecock Nation is in an ongoing legal battle to have the tribe’s fishing rights recognized. 
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation defends its sovereignty (August 11, 2025)
The Cherokee Nation has existed from time immemorial.
The Shinnecock Nation is in an ongoing legal battle to have the tribe’s fishing rights recognized.
Source New Mexico: Funding for Navajo Nation water project in doubt (August 4, 2025)
Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico) is calling on President Donald Trump to fund the next phase of a massive water pipeline, saying failing to do so would violate Navajo water rights and could cause the project to fail completely. 
Freedmen of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation are moving closer to tribal citizenship.
The Crow Tribe and the Umatilla Tribes are each marking treaty milestones in their government-to-government relationship with the United States.
Long-simmering tensions in the nation’s capital burst into the open at a confirmation hearing for one of Indian Country’s most crucial government positions.
What good are treaty fishing rights if you can’t eat the fish because they’re poisoned?
The Indian Health Service remains largely misunderstood by those not directly connected to it, and often derided as bureaucratic and confusing by those who are.
A Republican lawmaker is trying to use the so-called “One Big Beautiful Bill” to require sales of federal lands.
VIDEO: H.R.2556, the CORE Act (June 26, 2025)
The House Committee on Natural Resources considers a tribal consultation amendment to H.R.2556,, the Comprehensive Offshore Resource Enhancement Act, at a markup on June 25, 2025. 
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs holds a hearing on legislation affecting tribal lands and tribal health.
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs is taking testimony on tribal lands and health legislation.
Key programs at the Indian Health Service are seeing flat funding under a budget proposal that eliminates a major tribal priority.
Republican lawmakers are pushing back against drastic cuts to Indian Country programs like law enforcement and school construction.
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.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (May 27, 2025) (May 27, 2025)
As summer kicks off, this week’s newsletter features free virtual resources to help students stay active learners by exploring economic and personal finance topics. 
Despite pledges from Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., programs serving Indian Country are in line for cuts and reductions.
Despite lacking a formal relationship with the U.S. government, the Lumbee Tribe depends on federal funds that are now being threatened by President Trump.
Indigenous leaders are forcefully denouncing Alberta Premier Danielle Smith for the idea of separating from Canada.
I will never stop advocating for our rights and ensuring the promises made to the Cherokee people are kept.
Native America Calling: Mount Rushmore’s troubled history (April 29, 2025)
It’s been 100 years since Mount Rushmore was dedicated as a national monument, on land promised to the Sioux Nation by treaty. 
Bryan Warner: Cherokee Nation invests in food sovereignty (April 14, 2025)
The days of the federal government treating us like wards in the areas of food sovereignty and food security are over. 
From millions of dollars in canceled grants to vacancies at the Indian Health Service, tribes are dealing with big changes at the federal level.
A new lawsuit claims citizens of the Blackfeet Nation are “losing economic opportunities and business” due to tariffs imposed on Canada.
Indian educators and advocates are testifying about the impacts of closing the Department of Education.
The vast majority of Native students attend schools funded through the Department of Education, the cabinet agency that President Donald Trump wants to shut down.
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