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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].

December 26, 2025 Levi Rickert and Neely Bardwell
This Day in History: Dec. 26, 1862 — Most commonly revered as the United States president who freed the slaves, Abraham Lincoln is known for something different in Indian Country. On this day 163 years ago, 38 Dakota men were hanged following orders from Lincoln in the largest mass hanging in U.S. history.
Currents
December 25, 2025 Native News Online Staff Currents 1420
The Native News Online team extends warm wishes for a Merry Christmas and a prosperous New Year, offering gratitude to our readers, contributors, and communities who continue to support independent Indigenous journalism.
Opinion
December 25, 2025 Chris Tall Bear Opinion 581
To move forward, Coloradans must face the massacre’s trauma and begin to repair trust.
December 23, 2025 Levi Rickert Opinion 2872
Opinion. One line in a press release from New Mexico Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D) this past week stopped me cold.
Sovereignty
December 23, 2025 Native News Online Staff Sovereignty 1074
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.
December 22, 2025 Native News Online Staff Sovereignty 2832
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
December 25, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 2169
On Dec. 23, 2025, the U.S. Department of Education said it will begin administrative wage garnishment for borrowers with defaulted federal student loans in early 2026, marking the first resumption of such collections since the pandemic-era pause that began in 2020.
December 10, 2025 American Indian College Fund Blog Education 2250
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.
Arts & Entertainment
December 19, 2025 Zuni Youth Enrichment Project Arts & Entertainment 854
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.
December 17, 2025 Shaun Griswold Arts & Entertainment 4758
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.
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Environment
December 11, 2025 James Brooks, Alaska Beacon Environment 2035
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.
December 02, 2025 Native News Online Staff Environment 6648
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.