November 16, 2025
Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz, and the Vietnam War, is back this week on PBS with a new six-part documentary, The American Revolution.
Currents
On Sunday, November 16, 2025, the United Houma Nation welcomed French Army General François Lecointre, Grand Chancellor of France's Legion of Honor, to its Tribal Office in Houma, Louisiana. A reception was held to commemorate the historic bond that has existed between the Houma Nation and France since historic times.
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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. As the vestigial frost from a northern-plains winter gave way to a new spring, a father and his family were forcibly removed from their home. While it may be assumed this removal was for something resembling property foreclosure, it was not. Rather, it was one of many forced removals and relocations of Native Americans by the U.S. that utilized cruel displacement from known and familiar lifeways, killing many through sickness and exertion.
Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz, and the Vietnam War, is back this week on PBS with a new six-part documentary, The American Revolution.
Sovereignty
SEATTLE — The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) 2025 Convention is underway in Seattle. NCAI’s 82nd Annual Convention & Marketplace has brought together more than 2,400 Tribal leaders, national Native American organization leaders, and allies to address critical issues, strategize for the future, and strengthen nation-to-nation relationships.
The Navajo Nation Council’s Law and Order Committee on Tuesday, Nov. 11, unanimously advanced three mutual-aid agreements aimed at strengthening law enforcement cooperation between the Navajo Nation Division of Public Safety, the Navajo Police Department, and three neighboring jurisdictions: Navajo County, Coconino County, and the Hopi Tribe.
Education
The American Indian College Fund has released its annual State of the College Fund address, delivered by President and CEO Cheryl Crazy Bull (Sicangu Lakota), emphasizing the enduring importance of tribal colleges and universities (TCUs) in advancing Native people and communities amid national conversations about the future of higher education.
The American Indian College Fund has launched a new campaign, You Can Do Something , in recognition of Native American Heritage Month. The effort aims to reshape how Americans understand history, power and culture — and to encourage action to honor and support Native peoples.
Arts & Entertainment
A new book, In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America , gathers more than 250 images by Indigenous photographers from the 1800s to today.
This Native American Heritage Month, Native News Online is celebrating by sharing our favorite Native American actor movies, TV shows, books, chefs, musicians, artists, and fashion designers. The traditional practices and values of tribes across Indian Country are as varied as they are numbered, but there is one thing they all have in common: food is a centerpiece of culture.
Health
Environment
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.
Two South Texas tribes and a local environmental group are calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to revoke a federal permit for a proposed export terminal at Donnel Point, saying new environmental and cultural findings invalidate the original approval.