January 16, 2025
Secretary Deb Haaland reflected on the weight of history and the power of community in her farewell address Wednesday during a program at the Department of the Interior.
Currents
The Flandreau Santee Sioux Tribe lifted its banishment of South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem this week, just days before her Friday confirmation hearing for the position of U.S. Secretary of Homeland Security.
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Opinion
Guest Opinion . As a Karuk Tribal member from the Klamath River, my heart goes out to everyone in Southern California who has been displaced or devastated by the recent wildfires. Our communities know this pain all too well—we, too, have seen homes reduced to ash and sacred lands scorched by wildfires. Fire, which can be a source of renewal, has become a destructive force, intensified by years of mismanagement, climate change, and systemic disregard for Indigenous knowledge.
Guest Opinion. This month we celebrate an important birthday: Our Speaker Services turns three . Its future is bright.
Sovereignty
Cherokee Nation has reached an $80 million settlement with the federal government to resolve claims of trust resource mismanagement during the 20th century.
A federal judge declined a request to bar the Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians from barricading reservation roads on the same day the tribal council voted to keep the disputed roads open.
Education
California enacted Assembly Bill 1821 (AB 1821) last week, mandating the inclusion of Native American history and perspectives in public education.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) will return to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs in the 119th Congress, his office announced today.
Arts & Entertainment
An embattled gaming hall proposed by the Native Village of Eklutna has received an endorsement from the mayor of Anchorage, even as the state’s governor petitions the incoming Trump administration to revoke its approval.
When Ojibwe filmmaker Elizabeth Day joined Without Arrows as co-director, she knew the documentary needed to speak directly to Native audiences. That confirmation came during a recent test screening in Duluth, Minn., when the packed theater roared with laughter at a scene showing family members struggling to drag a fresh buffalo hide across the ground and heave it into a car trunk, blood staining everything in its path.
Health
Environment
Attorneys representing Native American tribes and environmental organizations brought their case Tuesday before a three-judge panel in the Michigan Court of Appeals to challenge a 2023 permit from the Michigan Public Service Commission — one of three needed for Enbridge to proceed with its controversial Line 5 tunnel project.
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers signed an agreement Friday to improve fish passage in Mill Creek near Walla Walla, Wash.