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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 America Celebrates the Winter Solstice 

December 20, 2025 Native News Online Staff
The winter solstice officially in the Northern Hemisphere begins Sunday, December 21 at 10:03 am - EST. It’s the opposite in the Southern Hemisphere, where it is the longest day of the year and summer will start.
Currents

Native News Weekly (December 21, 2025): D.C. Briefs

December 21, 2025 Native News Online Staff Currents 1338
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.
Opinion

The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina: #575

December 21, 2025 Professor Victoria Sutton Opinion 634
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.

Technology Rooted in Tradition is Strengthening Cherokee Nation

December 21, 2025 Chuck Hoskin Jr Opinion 485
Guest Opinion. In today’s age, when technology can often leave us feeling disconnected from our cultural roots, Cherokee Nation is proving that innovation and tradition can go hand in hand. This is especially true when it comes to supporting our elders, our first-language speakers, and our families.
Sovereignty

NCAI Resolution Condemns “Alligator Alcatraz”

December 20, 2025 Levi Rickert Sovereignty 1076
American Indian and Alaska Native leaders from throughout Indian Country voiced their opposition to Homeland Security using tribal lands to house internment or detention camps, citing historical precedent, violations of tribal sovereignty and environmental harm.

NABS Documents 134 More Survivor Stories, Expands Digital Archive in 2025

December 19, 2025 Elyse Wild Sovereignty 2144
This past year, the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (NABS)interviewed more than 130 Indian boarding school survivors, expanded its digital archive, and released the second volume of a curriculum about the boarding school era. That’s according to the organization’s latest annual report, released today.
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 1974
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 4003
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 593
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 4275
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

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

December 18, 2025 Elyse Wild

Sen. Luján Convenes Experts to Develop Roadmap for Native Maternal Health Solutions

December 17, 2025 Native News Online Staff
Environment

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

December 11, 2025 James Brooks, Alaska Beacon Environment 1703
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 6172
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.