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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].

November 21, 2025 Levi Rickert
SEATTLE — It took two rounds of voting, but in the end, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) re-elected Mark Macarro to serve as president of the oldest and largest Native American organization on Thursday.
Currents
November 23, 2025 Native News Online Staff Currents 1152
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
November 23, 2025 Chuck Hoskin Jr Opinion 549
Guest Opinion. If you live within the Cherokee Nation and see a rural transit vehicle, Cherokee Nation along with some great partners helped make it possible. It is a great investment.
November 17, 2025 Kitcki Carroll Opinion 2110
Guest Opinion. As the vestigial frost from a northern-plains winter gave way to a new spring, a father and his family were forcibly removed from their home. While it may be assumed this removal was for something resembling property foreclosure, it was not. Rather, it was one of many forced removals and relocations of Native Americans by the U.S. that utilized cruel displacement from known and familiar lifeways, killing many through sickness and exertion.
Sovereignty
November 23, 2025 Levi Rickert Sovereignty 1260
Less than a day after Navajo Nation Council Speaker Crystalyne Curley introduced legislation seeking the removal of both Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren and Vice President Richelle Montoya, Montoya issued a sharply worded statement distancing herself from Nygren and asserting she was excluded from key decision-making.
November 22, 2025 Levi Rickert Sovereignty 1688
Navajo Nation Speaker Crystalyne Curley on Friday introduced legislation seeking the removal of President Buu Nygren and Vice President Richelle Montoya, citing alleged malfeasance, misfeasance, and breaches of fiduciary duty.
Education
November 23, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 2027
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.
November 22, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 1164
Little Priest Tribal College has received a $5 million gift from the MacKenzie Scott Foundation (Yield Giving), the largest donation in the institution’s history since its founding in 1996.
Arts & Entertainment
November 21, 2025 Native News Online Staff Arts & Entertainment 657
The Association on American Indian Affairs will host its fourth annual Tribal Museums Day beginning Saturday, Dec. 6, with a live-streamed event kicking off a weeklong celebration running through Dec. 12.
November 18, 2025 Kaili Berg Arts & Entertainment 2216
A new book, In Light and Shadow: A Photographic History from Indigenous America , gathers more than 250 images by Indigenous photographers from the 1800s to today.
Health
Environment
November 14, 2025 Native News Online Staff Environment 2627
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.
November 13, 2025 Native News Online Staff Environment 2107
Two South Texas tribes and a local environmental group are calling on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to revoke a federal permit for a proposed export terminal at Donnel Point, saying new environmental and cultural findings invalidate the original approval.