January 19, 2026
Opinion. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is often reduced to a single quote, his one dream and safely fixed in history. But King was not a ceremonial figure. He was a disruptor. He challenged systems of power, condemned police violence, and warned that a nation could not survive while sacrificing human dignity for “law and order.”
Currents
The golden arches at a McDonald’s in rural Ronan, Montana, were not at all welcoming to students from the Blackfeet Nation’s Browning School District.
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Opinion
Opinion. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is often reduced to a single quote, his one dream and safely fixed in history. But King was not a ceremonial figure. He was a disruptor. He challenged systems of power, condemned police violence, and warned that a nation could not survive while sacrificing human dignity for “law and order.”
Guest Opinion . This January 19, we recognize Martin Luther King Day. It is a day on which many in the United States remember and honor Dr. King’s work and the long and ongoing fight for civil rights and social justice that he helped foster.
Sovereignty
The Native American Rights Fund is condemning what it calls unlawful actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, saying Native Americans and others are being racially profiled, unlawfully detained and subjected to excessive force.
United Indian Nations of Oklahoma is advising tribal citizens across the state to remain vigilant and to carry tribal identification, along with any state- or federally issued identification they may have, amid expanded immigration enforcement actions by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement following recent White House directives.
Education
More students graduated in 2025 from schools in tribal communities that are operated under the U.S. Bureau of Indian Education, according to new federal data released Thursday.
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.
Arts & Entertainment
It’s been a meteoric rise in Hollywood for Kali Reis. Since her breakout role in 2021's Catch the Fair One , the Seaconke Wampanoag actor and sixth-time world champion boxer has garnered critical acclaim, most notably for her portrayal of Trooper Evangeline Navarro in HBO's True Detective: Night Country (2024). In the high-stakes thriller Mercy —coming to theaters nationwide on January 24—Reis stars as officer Jack Diallo in an intense procedural alongside co-star Chris Pratt.
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.
Health
Environment
Published on January 9, 2026
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.