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The U.S. Supreme Court issued some big rulings before going on break for the summer. How do the cases impact tribes and Native people?
Phoenix, Arizona, is the latest city to face federal allegation of police discrimination against Native people.
Is South Dakota peculiar, or is the state driving a trend in anti-Indian policies, sentiments and behaviors?
A half dozen Indigenous leaders are getting a boost for incorporating traditional connections with making people and their communities better.
Over two days of hearings, the House Committee on Appropriations heard from dozens of Indian Country leaders who testified about their funding needs.
The House Committee on Appropriations heard from dozens of Indian Country leaders who testified about their funding needs.
Nearly a year after the state of Arizona announced a crackdown on a Medicaid scheme exploiting vulnerable Native people, tribal citizens are still calling for action to combat the problem.
The House Committee on Appropriations is hearing from dozens of Indian Country leaders who are testifying about their funding needs.
Cronkite News: Gathering addresses ‘epidemic’ among Native people (April 19, 2024)
Native people die by suicide at rates higher than any other racial or ethnic group, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. 
Native sisters, a Native artist’s art installation and a tribe’s fight against an oil pipeline are the subject of new films.
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. 
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation works with our friends in Oklahoma (February 12, 2024)
For the good of all Oklahoma, it’s time to leave behind a 19th century mindset and recognize that Cherokee Nation and other tribes bring huge benefits for the state. 
Native America Calling: Help for unsheltered relatives at a crossroads (January 22, 2024)
As dangerously bitter winter weather takes hold of the country, efforts to help unsheltered Native people face closure. 
Cronkite News: Non-profit takes Native approach to diabetes (December 21, 2023)
Native Americans for Community Action provides health services primarily to Native people, on and off reservation, in Arizona. 
Native America Calling: A new cookbook, fresh food and NFL eats (October 30, 2023)
What’s on The Menu at Native America Calling? A new cookbook, a new cafe and a new spotlight on a catering business. 
‘Your debt is due’: Tribes on alert as U.S. government looms toward shutdown (September 26, 2023)
Indian Country is on high alert as the U.S. government prepares for a possible shutdown, the first of its kind in more than three years. 
Native America Calling: Imagining Indigenous futures in art (September 15, 2023)
The Center for Native Futures is opening in the heart of downtown Chicago, providing a new home for contemporary Native artists. 
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. 
After years of work, tribes finally achieved a historic first for the Indian Health Service. But Republicans are already ripping apart the funding agreement.
Tribal youth get a taste of food sovereignty at White House gathering (November 15, 2022)
Dozens of young Native people flocked to the nation’s capital for the return of the White House Tribal Youth Forum, where they saw food sovereignty in action. 
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. 
A business in South Dakota that banned Native patrons from the premises is being sued by the United States government for racial discrimination.
Indian Health Service finally lands a permanent leader in Roselyn Tso (September 22, 2022)
For the first time in nearly two years, the Indian Health Service has a permanent leader. 
The House Committee on Natural Resources meets for a markup on H.R.2021, the Environmental Justice For All Act.
Indian Country’s most celebrated chef is facing calls for greater accountability after hiring a domestic violence offender.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds a legislative hearing on three bills on July 20, 2022.
Three young Indigenous people died under mysterious circumstances in Prince Rupert in British Columbia. The investigations into their deaths were inadequate.
Native America Calling: Through the Decades (July 6, 2022)
“Through the Decades” remembers the politics, significant events, and pop culture that helped shape Native America. 
Native artists ‘left hanging’ after big event fizzles out (April 16, 2022)
An ambitious showcase of Native talent devolved into controversy and recrimination as performers and vendors were left in the dark about the event. 
“Faces From the Interior” at the Joslyn Art Museum in Nebraska features Native perspectives on portraits of their people.
The House Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations holds an oversight hearing titled “The Opioid Crisis in Tribal Communities.”
Federal investigation sought into ban of Native people at hotel (March 30, 2022)
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate a business that has banned Native patrons. 
The people of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota nations came together to take a stand against racism and discrimination on their homelands.
Harold Frazier: ‘No Indians allowed’ — even on our own homelands (March 23, 2022)
When those wagons first began their way to break treaties and settle on our territory we were classified as lesser beings and genocide was justified as such. 
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.
Montana Free Press: Western Native Voice takes up voting rights (February 17, 2022)
Digital kiosks and legal arguments are one Native nonprofit’s answer to Montana’s new election laws. 
A growing number of Indian Country organizations are distancing themselves from Walter Roy Echo-Hawk Jr. following revelations of the criminal charge against the prominent artist.
Native America Calling: The enduring Laguna Pueblo Colony (January 12, 2022)
A thriving group of Laguna Pueblo citizens maintain their tribal connections at a distance. Learn more about this unique colony on Native America Calling. 
Indian Country starts off new year with surge in COVID-19 cases (January 6, 2022)
Tribal communities are once again seeing an explosion in COVID-19 cases following the busy holiday season and as a new and highly contagious variant brings upheaval to Indian Country. 
Native children continue to be overrepresented in state foster care systems, taken from their homes at high rates.
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