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Levi Rickert
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Levi "Calm Before the Storm" Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) is the founder, publisher and editor of Native News Online. Rickert was awarded Best Column 2021 Native Media Award for the print/online category by the Native American Journalists Association. He serves on the advisory board of the Multicultural Media Correspondents Association. He can be reached at [email protected].

September 02, 2025 Elyse Wild
Oscar-nominated First Nations actor Graham Greene (Oneida) walked on today, Monday, September 1, 2025. He died in a Toronto hospital after a long illness, according to various reports. He was 73.
Currents
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Michigan’s 12 federally recognized tribes have quadrupled their non-gaming economic impact in the state since 2019 as more tribes create more tribal enterprises to diversify their economies.
Opinion
September 01, 2025 Professor Victoria Sutton Opinion 1534
Two cases alleging harms caused by artificial intelligence are emerging this week that are cases that involve children’s particular vulnerabilities—vulnerabilities artificial intelligence is designed to exploit. In North Carolina v. Tiktok the state has filed a complaint against Tiktok for the harm caused to children by creating addictions to scrolling through the app’s features, including functions of suggesting to the child they are missing things when they are away from the app, increasing their usage.
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Opinion. As the school year resumes across the United States, so too has the tragic recurrence of school shootings. Since August 1, there have been five such incidents nationwide.
Sovereignty
September 02, 2025 Native News Online Staff Sovereignty 288
Native Vote. Today, the Spirit Lake Nation, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians, and several individual Native voters filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court, formally requesting the Court to review their case in its upcoming term.
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The Leech Lake Housing Authority building was destroyed by fire overnight on Labor Day, Monday, September 1, 2025, on the Leech Lake Indian Reservation in Cass Lake, Minn. Tribal officials confirmed the building was a total loss.
Education
August 30, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 3668
Pawnee Nation College (PNC) and Tulsa Community College (TCC) have established a partnership aimed at supporting PNC’s path to full accreditation and expanding educational opportunities for students in the Pawnee Nation and other rural areas.
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Western Michigan University is launching an elders-in-residence program designed to connect students with Native American wisdom keepers and cultural leaders.
Arts & Entertainment
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Beloved First Nations actor Graham Greene (Oneida) walked on yesterday at the age of 73 .
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Health
Environment
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Canadian oil corporation Enbridge is proposing a massive, six-year construction project to build a tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac—a location of immense ecological, cultural, and spiritual significance. The plan includes installing towering 400-foot cranes, flooding the area with round-the-clock artificial lighting, and disrupting one of the most pristine freshwater environments in North America.
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President Donald Trump took a strong stance on Tuesday on the ongoing Resolution Copper dispute, issuing pointed criticism of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals following its decision to temporarily halt the planned land transfer.