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Levi Rickert
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Levi "Calm Before the Storm" Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) is the founder, publisher and editor of Native News Online. Rickert was awarded Best Column 2021 Native Media Award for the print/online category by the Native American Journalists Association. He serves on the advisory board of the Multicultural Media Correspondents Association. He can be reached at [email protected].

January 14, 2025 Native News Online Staff
A coalition of more than 120 tribal leaders has called on President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier, an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians who has spent 49 years in federal prison.
Currents
January 14, 2025 Tribal Business News Staff Currents 2822
The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has allocated $150 million in Indian Housing Block Grant Competitive Program funds to support housing development and rehabilitation across Indian Country.
Opinion
January 13, 2025 Josa Talley Opinion 5333
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.
January 12, 2025 Chuck Hoskin Jr Opinion 785
Guest Opinion. This month we celebrate an important birthday: Our Speaker Services turns three . Its future is bright.
Sovereignty
January 14, 2025 Kaili Berg Sovereignty 684
The Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will reinstate nighttime barricades on multiple roads within their reservation, reigniting tensions with the town of Lac du Flambeau.
January 14, 2025 Neely Bardwell Sovereignty 667
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a Republican lawsuit alleging that North Dakota engaged in unconstitutional racial gerrymandering when it created two majority-Native American legislative districts .
Education
January 08, 2025 Kaili Berg Education 3124
California enacted Assembly Bill 1821 (AB 1821) last week, mandating the inclusion of Native American history and perspectives in public education.
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Arts & Entertainment
January 13, 2025 Brian Edwards Arts & Entertainment 4320
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.
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At the Chase Center in San Francisco, history and heritage came together on January 5, 2025, as Phil “The Flash” Jordon, the first Native American player in NBA history, was honored with the Golden State Warrior Impact Award.
Health
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January 14, 2025 Tribal Business News Staff Environment 568
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.
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If you want to find a turning point in Washington state’s modern history of environmental protection and advocacy, just go back a few decades to the late 1980s and early 1990s. This was a time period marked by an upsurge in commitment to enact meaningful legislation, create new agency initiatives, and emphasize partnerships with tribes .