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School administrators in Kansas this September violated an eight-year old Native American boy’s cultural and religious freedoms when they required him to cut his long hair to conform to school policy, according to the Kansas American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (ACLU).

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The Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in South Dakota is expected to declare a state of emergency due to rampant crime,  six months after a federal judge ruled that the U.S. government has a treaty obligation to provide adequate law enforcement on the reservation but declined to determine whether the Oglala Sioux Tribe is entitled to the full funding amount requested.
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On Monday, the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis, Missouri, struck a serious blow to the Voting Rights Act that could potentially impact the Native vote. The appeals court ruled that private entities cannot bring lawsuits under a provision of the law known as Section 2, part of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that was passed to counter racial discrimination in elections.
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Join Native News Online publisher Levi Ricker this Friday on Native Bidaské as he interviews Native American filmmaker Billy Luther (Navajo, Hopi, and Laguna Pueblo) to discuss Luther's latest project, "Frybread Face and Me."
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Last week, a federal judge in North Dakota ruled that the state’s 2021 legislative redistricting maps discriminate against Native voters by “dilut[ing] Native American voting strength.”  
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Last Wednesday, November 15, which was National Philanthropy Day, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) announced the launch of its new philanthropic arm, the NCAI Foundation (NCAIF). The announcement came on the third day of the NCAI’s 80th Annual Convention and Marketplace in New Orleans.  
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On this Thursday morning, before sunrise, hundreds of American Indians – and non-Native allies – will gather on Alcatraz Island for “The Indigenous Peoples Gathering Sunrise Ceremony.” The annual event is organized by the International Indian Treaty Council.

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The Cheyenne River Youth Project (CRYP), in collaboration with the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, distributed 435 boxes of food to families on the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation earlier this month. 

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WASHINGTON — In addition to articles already covered by Native News Online, here is a roundup of other news released from Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country recently.

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