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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 17, 2025 Levi Rickert
The Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is set to gain federal recognition once President Donald Trump signs the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) for fiscal year 2026 into law.
Currents
December 18, 2025 Native StoryLab Currents 1001
Native News Online presents a timely and powerful conversation on Native Bidaské between host Levi Rickert and acclaimed author and journalist Julian Brave NoiseCat, focusing on the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina’s historic path to federal recognition—a victory nearly 140 years in the making.
Opinion
December 18, 2025 Catherine Zingg Opinion 1009
Renewable energy is an internal Tribal matter and an exercise of sovereignty—not something that requires approval from rural electric cooperatives.
December 15, 2025 Professor Victoria Sutton Opinion 3355
Guest Opinion. The judiciary should be above reproach and when a judge falls from grace, it is alarming. When the judge comes from the highest court in a state, it is cause for particular alarm.
Sovereignty
December 18, 2025 Native News Online Staff Sovereignty 1928
The Pokagon Band of Potawatomi Indians of Michigan and Indiana and Michigan’s Cannabis Regulatory Agency have signed the state’s second tribal-state cannabis compact, giving the tribe access to Michigan’s licensed adult-use cannabis market.
December 18, 2025 Levi Rickert Sovereignty 2003
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Chairman Joseph "Zeke" Rupnick issued a statement via a YouTube video late Wednesday afternoon to tribal members announcing that the nation and its subsidiaries have fully divested from the $29.9 million U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) contract that has recently come under scrutiny.
Education
December 10, 2025 American Indian College Fund Blog Education 1774
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.
December 01, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 3847
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
December 17, 2025 Shaun Griswold Arts & Entertainment 3444
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.
December 16, 2025 Elyse Wild Arts & Entertainment 3131
Late Hollywood icon Rob Reiner's final project was” Wind River: Rising,” a sequel to Taylor Sheridan’s 2017 film set on the Wind River reservation in Wyoming. The film, which Reiner served as an executive producer on, is in post-production and has no set release date, according to IMDB .
Health
Environment
December 11, 2025 James Brooks, Alaska Beacon Environment 1413
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 5869
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.