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Levi Rickert
Author: Levi RickertEmail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
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 06, 2025 Levi Rickert
Amnesty International is raising alarms over what it describes as “cruel, inhuman and degrading” conditions at two major immigration detention centers in southern Florida, following a September 2025 research mission examining the human rights impacts of federal and state migration policies under the Trump administration.
Currents
December 07, 2025 Native News Online Staff Currents 1398
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
December 07, 2025 Chuck Hoskin Jr Opinion 1518
Guest Opinion. The debate happening at the federal level over the future of health insurance policy demands the attention of each of us.
December 01, 2025 Robert Maxim and Steven Estrada Opinion 2254
Guest Opinion. On November 19, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that, as a result of the government shutdown, it would not release its October jobs report —the first time in the report’s 77-year history that it would not be published. As a result, businesses, state and local governments, and the Federal Reserve (which will decide this month whether to adjust interest rates) are now left without a clear view of the nation’s economic situation.
Sovereignty
December 05, 2025 Native News Online Staff Sovereignty 1376
More than 100 Tribal leaders, federal officials and national partners gathered in the nation’s capital last month for the third Government-to-Government Roundtable: Protecting, Preserving & Strengthening Tribal Sovereignty, hosted by the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana.
December 05, 2025 Native News Online Staff Sovereignty 768
A webinar examining the federal government’s proposed changes to the “Waters of the United States” (WOTUS) definition under the Clean Water Act is scheduled for Tuesday, Dec. 9, from 3 to 4 p.m. ET.
Education
December 01, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 2599
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 .
November 23, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 5027
In wake of Tuesday's announcement that the Trump administration is dismantling the U.S. Department of Education, the American Indian College Fund is warning that the Trump administration’s plan to transfer more than a dozen federal education programs to other agencies could jeopardize Native students’ access to critical services and undermine the federal government’s trust and treaty obligations.
Arts & Entertainment
December 05, 2025 Native News Online Staff Arts & Entertainment 850
The Chickasaw Holiday Art Market, showcasing work by Chickasaw artists, will take place from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 6, in the Artesian Hotel Ballroom at 1001 W. First Street, Sulphur, Okla.
December 04, 2025 Levi Rickert Arts & Entertainment 994
CHICAGO — This weekend, the Center for Native Futures will host its third Mound Summit, a scholarly symposium that brings together community members, Native creatives and organizations to explore contemporary Native arts. From what it calls the vantage point of a “metaphorical effigy mound,” the organization aims to create a platform and networking space to imagine creative futures while upholding Native values.
Health
Environment
December 02, 2025 Native News Online Staff Environment 3742
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.
November 14, 2025 Native News Online Staff Environment 3158
Leaders of the Chilkat Indian Village of Klukwan and the conservation group Chilkat Forever are warning the new owners of the Palmer mine project that they will face “sustained and unyielding opposition” if they pursue hardrock mining in the Chilkat Valley.