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.
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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©.
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Opinion
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.
Guest Opinion . Human trafficking is not a distant crime. It is a harsh reality impacting tribal communities, including Cherokee Nation citizens and families, both on our Reservation and across the country. That is why leaders from my administration and the Council of the Cherokee Nation, along with employees from Cherokee Nation and Cherokee Nation Businesses, gathered recently to proclaim January as Human Trafficking Prevention Awareness Month .
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
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.