April 25, 2025
Indigenous Food Sovereignity. Travelers traveling in and out of Denver International Airport’s Concourse A now have the opportunity to eat Native American food. Tocabe: An American Indian Eatery, Denver, Colorado’s only Native-owned and operated restaurant, has officially opened its doors at the airport.
Currents
ZUNI, NM — This spring, the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project is once again offering its traditional social dance class for elementary school students in partnership with the Zuni Public School District. Offered from Mar. 3 to May 2 in teacher Shanell Leekya’s physical education specials class, the ZYEP program serves 430 students in pre-K to 5th grade at Shiwi Ts’ana Elementary School.
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Opinion
Opinion. The United States commemorated the first Earth Day 55 years ago on April 22, 1970, as a means to galvanize Americans around protecting an increasingly polluted environment. Earth Day was the brainchild of the late Sen. Gaylord Nelson (D-Wisc.), who recruited activist Denis Hayes to help organize nationwide teach-ins and demonstrations on college campuses.
Opinion. In late May 2021, news broke from British Columbia of the discovery of 215 remains of innocent school children at the Kamloops Indian Residential School. The news of the mass grave caught the attention of the national and international media.
Sovereignty
The Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians of Montana officially broke ground today on its long-anticipated Ceremonial Center, marking a significant milestone in the Tribe’s ongoing journey of resilience, cultural renewal, and self-determination.
Last week in Detroit, Michigan, legal rights to the Fort Wayne Burial Mound were returned to the rightful caretakers, the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP).
Education
On April 17–18, 2025, in honor of National Poetry Month, the BFA Creative Writing Program at Navajo Technical University (NTU) and the Navajo Nation Poet Laureate Committee hosted the third annual Creative Writing Symposium at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center. This event celebrated the richness of literary arts—poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and scriptwriting—as well as the diverse talents of artists, scholars, elders, and storytellers within our community.
Tribal Agriculture Fellowship (TAF) announced its 2025 cohort on Friday. TAF is committed to empowering Native American students who are seeking degrees in agriculture.
Arts & Entertainment
The Broad Museum in Los Angeles will open a new exhibition on May 10 featuring work by Jeffrey Gibson, the first Indigenous artist to represent the United States solo at the Venice Biennale.
The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art will make its debut at EXPO CHICAGO this week, bringing contemporary Native art to one of the most prominent art fairs in North America.
Health
Environment
Two years after the Center for Biological Diversity filed a lawsuit, the U.S. Forest Service has released its appraisals for the proposed Oak Flat land exchange and mining project in Arizona.
ZUNI, NM — The Zuni Youth Enrichment Project announced today that it will be hosting an Earth Day trash cleanup event on Tuesday, April 22. Scheduled to take place from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m., the cleanup efforts will focus on the northeast side of Ho’n A:wan Park along the Zuni River bed and at ZYEP’s adopt-a-road location at Chimoni Drive and Shalako Drive.