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January 15, 2026 Levi Rickert
Leaders of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are demanding the immediate release of tribal citizens held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and are pushing back on federal conditions for information about their whereabouts.
Currents
January 15, 2026 B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster Currents 176
Editor's Note: This article was originally published by High Country News .
Opinion
January 12, 2026 Levi Rickert Opinion 2019
Opinion. This past Wednesday, the federal government delivered a brutal and familiar reminder of the violence Native people have endured for centuries, when multiple videos surfaced showing a federal agent using deadly force on a Minneapolis street. It shows a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fired three shots into a maroon Honda Pilot, killing the woman sitting behind the wheel.
January 12, 2026 Professor Victoria Sutton Opinion 325
Guest Opinion. It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline.
Sovereignty
January 15, 2026 Levi Rickert Sovereignty 42
Leaders of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are demanding the immediate release of tribal citizens held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and are pushing back on federal conditions for information about their whereabouts.
January 13, 2026 Native News Online Staff Sovereignty 629
The Native American Rights Fund celebrated a historic victory for Alaska Native communities after the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 12, 2026, declined to review the State of Alaska’s challenge to long-standing federal protections for rural subsistence rights.
Education
January 15, 2026 Levi Rickert Education 217
Native Vote 2026. Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), a candidate for governor of New Mexico, on Thursday announced her education policy platform and received the endorsement of the American Federation of Teachers New Mexico, one of the state’s largest labor unions.
December 25, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 5967
On Dec. 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education said it will begin administrative wage garnishment for borrowers with defaulted federal student loans in early 2026, marking the first resumption of such collections since the pandemic-era pause that began in 2020.
Arts & Entertainment
January 15, 2026 Native News Online Staff Arts & Entertainment 611
The Seminole Tribe of Florida will host the 2026 Seminole Tribal Fair and Pow Wow from Friday, Jan. 30, through Sunday, Feb. 1, at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, celebrating Native culture through film, music, dance and tradition.
January 15, 2026 Native News Online Staff Arts & Entertainment 380
PBS Digital Studios today announced the launch of “THE STORY IN US,” a new anthology series premiering on PBS VOICES, the documentary-focused YouTube channel. Produced in collaboration with the PBS Creative Voices Ignite Filmmakers Program, the eight-part series examines how culture, history, and identity are preserved through the universal art of storytelling. The first film premiered last Thursday, January 8, with new episodes streaming weekly through February.
Health
Environment
January 15, 2026 Jeniffer Solis, Nevada Current Environment 60
Published on January 9, 2026
January 06, 2026 Elyse Wild Environment 199530
The leader of an organization that has been facing off against a foreign mining company with designs on destroying a sacred Indigenous site is walking more than 60 miles across Arizona to attend a court hearing that will decide the fate of 2,400 acres of federal public lands.