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2022 Impact Report

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In February 2023, we celebrate our 12th year of delivering Native News to readers throughout Indian Country. For the past dozen years, we’ve covered the most important news stories that are usually overlooked by other media.

Native News Online is proud to share our first impact report to illustrate our growth and impact as a leading digital news organization in Indian Country and how we’ve informed our audience with your support. Our news is free for everyone to read, but it is not free to produce. That’s why we are grateful for our readers who provide financial support to help us tell the stories that are so often ignored, erased, or overlooked.

 

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12 years of Native News

Support our Indigenous-led newsroom and celebrate our 12th year with a recurring donation of $12 per month to help fund our coverage of important news about Indian Country that’s usually overlooked by other media.

Native American Mothers Deserve to Live

December 23, 2025 Levi Rickert
Opinion. One line in a press release from New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D) this past week stopped me cold.
Currents

Pokagon Potawatomi Band, Four Winds Casinos Donate 1,000 Christmas Food Boxes

December 23, 2025 Native News Online Staff Currents 1062
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana and its Four Winds Casinos announced a donation of 1,000 Christmas food boxes to individuals and families in need.
Opinion

Native American Mothers Deserve to Live

December 23, 2025 Levi Rickert Opinion 770
Opinion. One line in a press release from New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D) this past week stopped me cold.

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina: #575

December 21, 2025 Professor Victoria Sutton Opinion 1509
Guest Opinion. Being a federally recognized tribe in the United States officially recognizes the political relationship between the sovereign nation of a tribe and that of the United States of America.
Sovereignty

Navajo Nation Council Members Attend 2025 Diné Action Plan Winter Gathering

December 23, 2025 Native News Online Staff Sovereignty 361
On Friday, members of the 25th Navajo Nation Council joined Diné Action Plan task force leaders, community partners and subject matter experts at the 2025 Diné Action Plan Winter Gathering.

Ute Tribe Files Federal Lawsuit Challenging Colorado Parks legislation

December 22, 2025 Native News Online Staff Sovereignty 1155
The Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation filed a federal lawsuit Friday against Colorado Gov. Jared Polis (D) and the heads of the Colorado Department of Natural Resources and Colorado Parks & Wildlife, alleging a state law unlawfully denies the Tribe equal access to ancestral lands.
Education

Hanging a Red Dress for Christmas: MMIP, Native Higher Education, and Hope for a Better New Year

December 10, 2025 American Indian College Fund Blog Education 2088
It’s a scene straight from a Dickens novel: a family sits around the table on Christmas Day with an empty chair amongst them and a somber air. Except this isn’t the Victorian classic, it’s real life for far too many Native families and no well-intentioned spirits to save the day. The epidemic of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People (MMIP) in the United States that has existed for years continues unabated. And while Native students deal with the same end of semester pressures and holiday stresses as other students, they’re more likely to also be living in a state of fear or mourning for a relative who may never make it home.

Native Students Can Win $5,000 Scholarship, International Distribution in Pendleton Design Contest

December 01, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 4154
Submissions for the sixth annual Tribal College Blanket Design Contest, hosted by American Indian College Fund and Pendleton Woolen Mills, are open from now until January 15, 2026 .
Arts & Entertainment

Zuni Youth Enrichment Project Takes Top Emerging Artist Apprentices to Phoenix for Artistic Exploration and Cultural Immersion

December 19, 2025 Zuni Youth Enrichment Project Arts & Entertainment 719
ZUNI, N.M.— Zuni Youth Enrichment Project recently took the top four students from its 2025 Emerging Artist Apprenticeship in Pueblo pottery on a three-day educational field trip to Phoenix, Arizona. Made possible with support from the Bezos Family Foundation and First Nations Development Institute, the Nov. 22-24 trip served as a capstone experience for the apprentices.

From Dishwasher to Award-Winning Chef: Laguna Pueblo's Josh Aragon Serves Up Albuquerque's Best Green Chile Stew

December 17, 2025 Shaun Griswold Arts & Entertainment 4570
At the award-winning Indian Pueblo Kitchen, Chef Josh Aragon stood with a smile at the fresh bowl of green chile stew in front of him for a photo shoot celebrating the dish being named the Best in the City by Albuquerque the Magazine.
Health

The blueprint for Indigenous Food Sovereignty is Served at Owamni

December 23, 2025 Kristen Lilya

Seven Deaths in Indian Country Jails as Inmate Population Rises and Staffing Drops

December 18, 2025 Elyse Wild
Environment

Trump signs law that revokes some limits on drilling in Alaska’s National Petroleum Reserve

December 11, 2025 James Brooks, Alaska Beacon Environment 1839
President Donald Trump has signed a resolution backed by members of Alaska’s Congressional delegation to revoke restrictions on drilling in the National Petroleum Reserve on the North Slope.

Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation Gets 900-Acres ofLand Back

December 02, 2025 Native News Online Staff Environment 6381
Nearly 900 acres of land have been returned to the Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation in California. The land borders Yosemite National Park -- one of the most visited National Parks—— and the Sierra National Forest.