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Guest Opinion. The tribal gaming industry has been the most successful economic development in Indian country in my lifetime. Over the past four and a half decades, it has lifted entire communities out of crushing poverty and conferred economic and political power to Indian people for the first time in generations.
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- By Bryan Newland
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Guest Opinion. Native communities already experience obstacles to voting, from language barriers and lack of polling places on reservations to state laws which do not recognize Tribal identifications or accept reservation addresses that sometimes do not include house numbers or even street names.
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- By Judith LeBlanc
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Guest Opinion. Executive orders and declared intentions to drastically alter both K-12 and higher education filled President Trump’s first 100 days. From making promises to dismantle the Department of Education to threats to pursue legal action and withhold federal funds from universities that don’t align with the Administration’s mandates, the future of access to higher education for all students, and free speech in academia from curriculum to expressing one’s opinions has brought academic freedom in higher education to a flash point.
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- By Cheryl Crazy Bull
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Guest Opinion. As we observe the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives (MMIWR) National Week of Action, I write to shine a light on this issue and honor the memory of the Native women and girls whose lives have been stolen, and to stand with the families and communities who have carried unimaginable grief for far too long.
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- By Sen. Lisa Murkowski
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Guest Opinion. On Friday, May 2, the President released his Fiscal Year 2026 budget proposal, which outlines severe funding cuts to Indian Country. These proposed reductions threaten to undermine the federal government’s treaty and trust obligations to Tribal Nations.
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- By Aaron Payment
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Opinion. Tomorrow on May 5, thousands of Native Americans will hold rallies and march to recognize the epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP).
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. Protecting Cherokee Nation's sovereignty requires constant vigilance, particularly in ensuring the federal government upholds its solemn trust responsibilities to provide for the health and well-being of our people. Our unique nation-to-nation relationship demands direct engagement, and recently, I traveled to Washington, D.C., to advocate for our communities at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ 27th annual Tribal Budget Consultation.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Guest Opinion. On his first day in office, Trump signed an executive order to rename the country’s highest peak. Alaska’s Koyukon Athabascans have called the mountain Denali for centuries. The United States bought Native Alaskans' land from Russia in 1867 while making war with Native tribes for land. In 1917, the federal government renamed it “Mount McKinley” in honor of the 25th president of the United States, William McKinley.
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- By Judith LeBlanc
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Guest Opinion. This month, we saw President Trump, Elon Musk, and big CEO’s turn the Oval Office into a corporate boardroom from the movie Wolf of Wall Street, all while they celebrated their massive profits for doing absolutely nothing to benefit everyday working people. President Trump even pointed at his millionaire and billionaire friends, yelling out how much money they each made on his tariff scam.
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- By Deb Haaland
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Guest Opinion. In 2018, the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act was reauthorized to provide more than $1 billion in federal funding and was overseen by the Department of Education (DoE). Each year, nearly $18 million of this funding provides career and technical education programs for American Indian and Alaska Native students through the Native American Career and Technical Education Program (NACTEP). This competitive grant is open to federally recognized Indian Tribes, tribal organizations, Alaska Native entities, and eligible Bureau of Indian Affairs-funded schools.
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- By American Indian College Fund Blog