January 15, 2026
Leaders of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are demanding the immediate release of tribal citizens held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and are pushing back on federal conditions for information about their whereabouts.
Currents
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From January 21 to February 1, The Visitors will be at Perelman Performing Arts Center (PAC NYC), making its international debut in New York City. Written by Jane Harrison and directed by Wesley Enoch, this award-winning play is a Moogahlin Performing Arts and Sydney Theatre Company Production, produced by Performing Lines, and presented in partnership with Under the Radar Festival©.
For generations, many Native families have relied on community knowledge, not institutions, to guide their financial lives. That wisdom remains essential.
Opinion
Opinion. This past Wednesday, the federal government delivered a brutal and familiar reminder of the violence Native people have endured for centuries, when multiple videos surfaced showing a federal agent using deadly force on a Minneapolis street. It shows a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent fired three shots into a maroon Honda Pilot, killing the woman sitting behind the wheel.
Guest Opinion. It is time for animal behavior to become its own academic discipline.
Sovereignty
Leaders of the Oglala Sioux Tribe are demanding the immediate release of tribal citizens held by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and are pushing back on federal conditions for information about their whereabouts.
The Native American Rights Fund celebrated a historic victory for Alaska Native communities after the U.S. Supreme Court on Jan. 12, 2026, declined to review the State of Alaska’s challenge to long-standing federal protections for rural subsistence rights.
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
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.
PBS Digital Studios today announced the launch of “THE STORY IN US,” a new anthology series premiering on PBS VOICES, the documentary-focused YouTube channel. Produced in collaboration with the PBS Creative Voices Ignite Filmmakers Program, the eight-part series examines how culture, history, and identity are preserved through the universal art of storytelling. The first film premiered last Thursday, January 8, with new episodes streaming weekly through February.
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.