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FILE - Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chuck Hoskin, Jr. speaks Dec. 3, 2021, in Tahlequah, Okla.

July 02, 2022

Native News Roundup, June 26 – July 2, 2022

Native Americans Express Outrage Over Supreme Court Decision

Photo shows Tuba City, Ariz., in the Navajo Nation, home to the Tuba City Regional Health Care Corp.

June 30, 2022

Native Americans Bristle at Suggestions They Offer Abortions on Tribal Land

FILE - Marilynn "Lynn" Malerba stands next to a photograph of late Chief Ralph Sturges at Tribal offices in Uncasville, Connecticut, on March 4, 2010. Malerba, who is Native American, was nominated by President Joe Bident to be U.S. Treasurer, Tuesday, Ju

June 26, 2022

Native News Roundup, June 19-25

FILE - In this April 23, 2021, file photo, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a news briefing at the White House in Washington. Haaland approved a new constitution for the Cherokee Nation on Wednesday, May 12, 2021 that ensures citizenship…

June 18, 2022

Native News Roundup, June 12-18, 2022

Native American students high fiving as they pass one other at the University of California, Riverside, June 26, 2014.

June 14, 2022

The ‘Rez Accent’: Native Americans Are Making English Their Own

The unique style and cadence of Native American speakers living on the reservation, Native American English, is flourishing across North America

Native American woman participating in NDN Collective protest against racist businesses in Rapid City, S.D., April 20, 2022.

May 28, 2022

Native Americans Confront Racism in South Dakota

Rapid City mayor admits to some racial divide

Red painted handprints cover the empty spot at a park in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Thursday, July 1, 2021, where a historical marker for the Indigenous children who died while attending a boarding school nearby was removed.

May 14, 2022

Native Americans: Federal Report on Boarding Schools a Start

US Department of Interior releases results from its investigation into abuse and death at nationwide institutions for Native youth

Across North America, academics have allegedly manufactured indigenous identity for personal, professional and financial gain.

April 03, 2022

Native, First Nations Scholars: Fake Indians Prevalent in Higher Education

Frauds become institutional decision-makers and government policy advisers

Google Earth screenshot of Grand Gateway Hotel, Rapid City, S.D., which turned away Native patrons.

March 27, 2022

Native Rights Group Sues South Dakota Hotel for Turning Them Away

Hotel's owner says on social media that Native Americans are no longer allowed on property

The Osage News is widely touted as a tribal newspaper which used legislative means to achieve press freedom.

March 20, 2022

How Native American Tribal Papers Are Forging a Path to Press Freedom

From press protections in tribal constitutions to new funding models, Native American journalists push for editorial independence

A sign promoting social distancing sits near the Navajo Nation town of Chinle, May 22,2020.

January 29, 2022

Biden's Free Home COVID Tests Out of Reach for Many Native Americans

Mo (actor Mo Brings Plenty) raises a bison skull in a vision quest ceremony for Kayce Dutton (Luke Grimes) in Season 4, Episode 9 of Paramount+ "Yellowstone."

January 23, 2022

Blockbuster Television Series ‘Yellowstone’ Stokes Debate on Native American Casting, Spirituality

Responding to claims that the show misappropriates Native tradition, Actor Mo Brings Plenty says, 'We have not given anything away'

FILE - Interior Secretary Deb Haaland speaks during a Tribal Nations Summit during Native American Heritage Month, in the South Court Auditorium on the White House campus, on Nov. 15, 2021, in Washington.

December 23, 2021

Native American Journalists Weigh in on Biden Tribal Initiatives

Too soon to 'jump for joy'

Untreated waste and honey bucket bags at the edge of a sewage lagoon in Toksook Bay in Alaska's Bethel Census Area.

December 15, 2021

Alaska Natives: Infrastructure Act Funds a 'Drop in the Bucket'

Bill would provide $230 million to help build, support Alaska Native water, sewer systems, but how much can Washington deliver?

Native American girls saying bedtime prayers at the Phoenix Indian School in Arizona, June 1900.

November 28, 2021

Scholars Work to Untangle Complex Legacy of Federal Indian Boarding Schools

‘We sometimes want easier explanations for the past,’ says author Brenda Child, a citizen of the Red Lake band of Chippewa.

Patients at Tuberculosis Sanitorium with glasses of milk, Phoenix Indian School, c. 1890-1910.

November 15, 2021

Assessing Blame for Deaths of Indian Boarding School Students

‘There’s evidence that in some cases, tubercular students would have to share beds with healthy students’

Illustration from the cover of the May 1912 edition of the Carlisle Indian School student publication, "Red Man," by William Henry "Lone Star" Dietz

November 08, 2021

Indian Boarding Schools ‘Outings’: Apprenticeships or Indentured Servitude?

What began as an educational program degenerated into a source of cheap labor

Tourists atop masonry wall look down on the water battery at Fort Marion, St. Augustine, Fla. Photo ca 1800-1897 by Wm. Henry Jackson.

November 01, 2021

Florida Prison Fort Served as Testing Ground for Federal Indian Boarding School System

Despite 'endearing anecdotes,' Fort Marion was no summer camp

FILE - Children pose in an unidentified Indian boarding school in Minnesota, ca. 1900.

September 06, 2021

Native American Pastor Seeks White House Apology for Historic Abuses

Why saying 'sorry' by itself might not be enough

Chairwoman Maxine Waters, of Calif., speaks as Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before the House Committee on Financial Services, on Capitol Hill, Tuesday, Feb.11, 2020 in Washington. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon)

August 17, 2021

Native American Tribes Risk Losing Housing Funds

Congresswoman Maxine Waters tells tribes they will lose funding if they don't give citizenship to Freedmen, descendants of emancipated slaves