A big pink truck cruised the streets of the Southwest this spring with stops in New Mexico, distributing over 10,000 books to the Navajo Nation to help improve literacy and support Indigenous writers.
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The work is unfolding as global instability and growing demand drive uranium prices higher...
Federal prosecutors say Travis John Branson and others killed about 3,600 birds during a yearslong “killing spree” on the Flathead Indian Reservation and elsewhere...
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Authorities in a Phoenix suburb will not pursue criminal charges against a gallery owner whose racist rant last year was caught on video while Native dancers were being filmed....
An analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University found nine proposed lithium mines are within 10 miles of Native American reservations...
Local Native nonprofits in Rapid City, S.D., are serving Indigenous homeless people unwilling to stay at other local shelters...
The Board of Education for Albuquerque Public Schools has a Native American member for the first time since its founding....
Gov. Kevin Stitt said Oklahoma won’t participate due to questions about program’s cost, administration...
Gov. Katie Hobbs said Monday that Arizonans should be “outraged” by the sober living scandal that continues to victimize people across the state, particularly Native Americans....
Two tribes called on the group of descendants of Wounded Knee Massacre survivors to not burn repatriated artifacts as planned on the massacre’s 133rd anniversary...
A task force created by the Washington State Office of Financial Management may soon recommend the return of nearly 23 acres to the Chinook Indian Nation, including buildings that could support the cultural survival of the first people of that land...
When federal agencies responded positively in 2023 to citizen pleas to prevent a “modern gold rush” in the fabled Black Hills, it was a milestone for a decades-long grassroots movement defending the region’s habitat from looming mega-mining. Tribal and nonprofit organizations celebrated with a December appreciation dinner...
Jessica Keetso remembers running through puddles with her cousins during the monsoon seasons of her childhood in the Black Mesa (Dził Yijiin) region on the Navajo Nation in Northeastern Arizona. Their muddied legs would ache after a day’s worth of adventures, but they’d return each day until the puddles dried up to enjoy...
‘The death of Quinto Inuma highlights the impunity that prevails in cases of environmental crimes and violations of Indigenous peoples’ rights’...
The 48-year-old Democrat will vie for the seat occupied by incumbent Eli Crane, a Republican who represents Arizona’s 2nd Congressional District...
The Tohono O’odham Nation called the decision ‘a travesty of justice’...
Wab Kinew and the New Democratic Party take charge in Manitoba...
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP)— Chinese immigrant workers allege they were lured to northern New Mexico under false pretenses and forced to work 14 hours a day trimming marijuana on the Navajo Nation where cultivating the plant is illegal, according to a lawsuit filed Wednesday in state court....
MINEAPOLIS — A state commission went to work Tuesday on designing a new state flag and seal for Minnesota to replace a current emblem in both that’s considered offensive to Native Americans....
For centuries, tribes in the area now called Portland gathered at an ancient encampment called Neerchokiko for trade and community building. With colonization, that place was lost to Native people. But as of this summer, Neerchokiko is owned outright by the Native American Youth and Family Center – an accomplishment that many...
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Data obtained through the Land Grab University investigation conducted by Grist shows that much of what remains of the Normal School Trust land is tribal land taken mostly from the Ojibwe people...
The message was delivered to more than 70,000 revelers and millions watching live on television...