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Native America Calling: Counteracting a pollinator crisis (April 15, 2025)
Honey bees, butterflies, and even small vertebrates like bats and birds are important to agriculture and are indicators of a healthy ecosystem. 
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? 
For the first time in decades, tribes in the Pacific Northwest will be able to forage for wild huckleberries in a national forest without competition from commercial companies.
Arizona ranks third for the highest number of cases of missing Indigenous people.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (March 17, 2025) (March 17, 2025)
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Tribal and state public health efforts are credited with reducing the suicide rate among Native people in New Mexico.
The House Committee on Appropriations hears from American Indian and Alaska Native witnesses on the afternoon of February 26, 2025.
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs holds an oversight hearing on Indian trust reform on February 25, 2025.
House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs meets for oversight hearing (February 24, 2025)
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs is holding its second hearing of the 119th Congress, focusing on the federal government’s management of Indian trust assets. 
NAFOA: Things You Need to Know this Week (February 24, 2025) (February 24, 2025)
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The House Committee on Appropriations hears from American Indian and Alaska Native witnesses on the afternoon of February 26, 2025.
Amid widespread terminations of its employees, the Bureau of Indian Affairs is trying to put the focus back on a critical issue facing tribes and their communities.
KFF Health News: Native patients on the hook for government health debt (January 7, 2025)
Native patients aren’t liable for medical bills the Indian Health Service is supposed to pay. But federal law doesn’t stop the debt collectors.
Native America Calling: The year-end edition of The Menu (December 31, 2024)
What’s on The Menu? Join Native America Calling for the last food show of 2024, hosted by Andi Murphy. 
Daily Montanan: Drug trafficking ring targeted multiple reservations (November 18, 2024)
More than two dozen people have been convicted and sentenced to prison for trafficking methamphetamine on reservation in Montana. 
Native America Calling: Art from hardship (November 8, 2024)
Native people have a long and rich tradition of producing artwork from behind bars. 
Daily Montanan: Man who bragged about killing eagles sentenced to prison (November 1, 2024)
A man who bragged about going “on a killing spree” was sentenced to 46 months in prison for trafficking eagle feathers and eagle parts. 
Indian boarding schools notoriously worked to stamp out Native languages, religions, and cultures — along with traditional foodways.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (October 15, 2024)
Every day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 
The U.S. government recently recognized the harm caused by the dams and has promised to work to restore salmon runs but tribal members doubt much will change.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs is investing nearly $10 million in tribal treaty fishing sites along the Columbia River.
“Native people are going to fight back,” said Nick Tilsen, founder of NDN Collective.
Indian Country is already suffering from a food shortage crisis and problems will only get worse under a government shutdown, lawmakers were told at a crowded hearing on Capitol Hill.
Native America Calling: Federal help for tribal small business (September 10, 2024)
Millions of dollars are flowing into tribal nations right now as a means to encourage small business development. 
‘Once in a generation investments’: Funding helps tribes with energy needs (September 5, 2024)
The Biden administration is on the road as the November presidential election quickly approaches, touting historic levels of funding going to Indian Country. 
If American voters choose Democrat Kamala Harris for president in November, what could her administration mean for Native people?
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs holds a legislative hearing on July 24, 2024.
Legislative Hearing on H.R.6489, H.R.8942, H.R.8955 & H.R.8956 (July 22, 2024)
The House Subcommittee on Indian and Insular Affairs is taking up four bills at a legislative hearing. 
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?
Three members of a family with multi-state and international connections have been sentenced for selling over $1 million in fake Alaska Native goods.
A bill to create a Truth and Healing Commission on Indian boarding schools is moving forward in Congress.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (July 8, 2024)
Your latest news on tribal finance and economic development. 
A unanimous U.S. Supreme Court upheld access to a widely used abortion drug, tossing out an effort to take mifepristone off the market across the country.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs holds an oversight hearing on public safety in Native communities.
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 is hearing from dozens of Indian Country leaders who are testifying about their funding needs.
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The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a legislative hearing on May 1, 2024.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a legislative hearing on May 1, 2024.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (April 22, 2024)
Show some love for the Earth that sustains us. Happy Earth Day!
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