March 11, 2025
Opinion. Democratic strategist James Carville has spent years warning that Republicans win elections with simple messages, while Democrats get bogged down with complex policy details for governing.
Currents
LAS VEGAS — Speaking before at the National Native American Human Resources Association's Gala at the Palms in Las Vegas, “Yellowstone” star Mo Brings Plenty (Lakota) spoke about the strength of unity.
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Opinion
Opinion. Democratic strategist James Carville has spent years warning that Republicans win elections with simple messages, while Democrats get bogged down with complex policy details for governing.
Guest Opinion. For decades, the opioid epidemic has devastated communities across Oklahoma, with American Indians suffering the highest overdose death rates in the nation. Here on the Cherokee Nation Reservation, we've felt this impact acutely, as drug manufacturers and distributors targeted our most vulnerable rural communities.
Sovereignty
A $350,000 grant from the James Irvine Foundation was recently awarded to the co-directors of the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Institute , California’s first dedicated space for cultivating Indigenous Knowledges in a university setting, for their pioneering work at the Native American Studies department at Cal Poly Humboldt.
The Puyallup Tribal Council and Puyallup Tribal Language Program celebrated the publication of a historic paper that gives a comprehensive linguistic analysis of the many Native names for Pacific Northwest landmark Mount Rainier.
Education
The American Indian College Fund has named Carla Sineway, President of Saginaw Chippewa Tribal College (SCTC), as its 2024-2025 Tribal College President Honoree of the Year. This prestigious award recognizes individuals who have made a significant and lasting impact on the tribal college movement.
Haskell Indian Nations University is rehiring some of the employees that were abruptly fired on Friday, February 14, 2025 back as adjunct instructors.
Arts & Entertainment
AMC’s critically acclaimed series “Dark Winds” returned for its third season yesterday. Set in the 1970s Southwest, the series follows Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, and Bernadette Manuelito as they confront a string of increasingly complex and dangerous cases.
On Thursday, March 6, AMC Networks celebrated the highly anticipated third season of the critically acclaimed noir thriller Dark Winds with a red carpet and screening event at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. The event took place ahead of the season premiere, airing Sunday, March 9, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC and AMC+.
Health
Environment
NUIQSUT, Alaska — On a summer evening last August, the gravel roads led residents toward Nuiqsut’s Trapper School for an Iñupiat ceremonial dance. The village of just over 500 welcomed congressmen from across Alaska, a week before the state’s primary election. Wooden bleachers in the school’s new gymnasium, paid for with oil money, were crowded with excited locals sitting behind the state congressmen filling in the first two rows. Performers sat in the center of the gym, with the men in the front row wearing green regalia, and women, wearing pink, filed into the second and third rows. Each dance told a unique story. One performed by the village’s young boys was about fighting your enemy. Each pair of boys mimicked punches and jabs to the beat of drums, but by the end of the dance, they shook hands, stronger as a pair. Read the story at Native News Online .
On Wednesday, the Michigan Court of Appeals rejected a challenge from Tribal Nations and environmental groups aiming to overturn the Michigan Public Service Commission’s approval of Enbridge’s Line 5 tunnel project beneath the Straits of Mackinac. The project would prolong the operation of the aging pipeline, transporting oil through the heart of the Great Lakes for decades, primarily to Canadian consumers.