November 30, 2025
Opinion. During last year’s Idaho election, a Republican state senator lost his composure when a candidate forum turned to the topic of racism.
Currents
Indian Country enters 2026 with renewed urgency around sovereignty, health equity, and accountability.
From Our Partners
As First American Capital Corporation’s (FACC) influence expands across Wisconsin, it is through strong community partnerships that connect Native entrepreneurs with business loan options, education and resources for success.
Across the country today, museums are being forced to reckon with the truth. For centuries, most mainstream museums were built from taking — taking objects, taking stories, taking lands. They displayed the Ancestors of Native Nations under the banner of “education,” while silencing the very Peoples those Ancestors came from.
Opinion
Guest Opinion. On November 19, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that, as a result of the government shutdown, it would not release its October jobs report —the first time in the report’s 77-year history that it would not be published. As a result, businesses, state and local governments, and the Federal Reserve (which will decide this month whether to adjust interest rates) are now left without a clear view of the nation’s economic situation.
Opinion. During last year’s Idaho election, a Republican state senator lost his composure when a candidate forum turned to the topic of racism.
Sovereignty
The Tulalip Tribes issued a statement this week pushing back against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) actions, saying federal agents have no jurisdiction over the Tribe or its citizens.
Last week, cultural educator Patti Harris-Baldes (Northern Arapaho and Big Pine) introduced herself with humility to the bison on the ground in front of her on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Her greeting extended to the crowd of people surrounding the animal, prepared for them to harvest.
Education
Submissions for the sixth annual Tribal College Blanket Design Contest, hosted by American Indian College Fund and Pendleton Woolen Mills, are open from now until January 15, 2026 .
In wake of Tuesday's announcement that the Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, the American Indian College Fund is warning that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer more than a dozen federal education programs to other agencies could jeopardize Native students’ access to critical services and undermine the federal government’s trust and treaty obligations.
Arts & Entertainment
CHICAGO — This weekend, the Center for Native Futures will host its third Mound Summit, a scholarly symposium that brings together community members, Native creatives and organizations to explore contemporary Native arts. From what it calls the vantage point of a “metaphorical effigy mound,” the organization aims to create a platform and networking space to imagine creative futures while upholding Native values.
The team behind the documentary You’re No Indian says they are facing an attempt to silence the Native voices in their film after receiving a cease-and-desist letter last week from attorneys for the Pechanga Band of Indians and Chairman Mark Macarro.
Health
Environment
Nearly 900 acres of land have been returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation in California. The land borders Yosemite National Park -- one of the most visited National Parks—— and the Sierra National Forest.
Leaders of the Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan and the conservation group Chilkat Forever are warning the new owners of the Palmer mine project that they will face “sustained and unyielding opposition” if they pursue hardrock mining in the Chilkat Valley.