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March 14, 2025 Levi Rickert
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) died on Thursday morning from complications of his cancer treatments. His congressional office released a statement on Thursday announcing his death. During his time in Congress, he rose to be one of the strongest defenders of Native American issues in the U.S. House of Representatives. Rep. Grijalva was 77.
Currents
March 15, 2025 Native News Online Staff Currents 1182
The National Congress of American Indians released the following statement on the passing of Arizona Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva, who died on Thursday, March 13, 2025:
Opinion
March 11, 2025 Levi Rickert Opinion 3952
Opinion. Democratic strategist James Carville has spent years warning that Republicans win elections with simple messages, while Democrats get bogged down with complex policy details for governing.
March 08, 2025 Chuck Hoskin Jr Opinion 2390
Guest Opinion. For decades, the opioid epidemic has devastated communities across Oklahoma, with American Indians suffering the highest overdose death rates in the nation. Here on the Cherokee Nation Reservation, we've felt this impact acutely, as drug manufacturers and distributors targeted our most vulnerable rural communities.
Sovereignty
March 06, 2025 Neely Bardwell Sovereignty 2830
A $350,000 grant from the James Irvine Foundation was recently awarded to the co-directors of the Rou Dalagurr Food Sovereignty Lab and Traditional Ecological Knowledge Institute , California’s first dedicated space for cultivating Indigenous Knowledges in a university setting, for their pioneering work at the Native American Studies department at Cal Poly Humboldt.
February 27, 2025 Kaili Berg Sovereignty 2555
The Puyallup Tribal Council and Puyallup Tribal Language Program celebrated the publication of a historic paper that gives a comprehensive linguistic analysis of the many Native names for Pacific Northwest landmark Mount Rainier.
Education
March 15, 2025 Neely Bardwell Education 245
On Wednesday, March 12, the U.S. Department of Education announced significant staff reductions, cutting nearly half of its workforce.
March 14, 2025 Native News Online Staff Education 773
The University of Oklahoma hosted the Ethical Tribal Engagement Series on March 5, convening tribal leaders, legal experts, and university faculty to explore the crucial intersection of artificial intelligence, data sovereignty, and tribal governance.
Arts & Entertainment
March 10, 2025 Kaili Berg Arts & Entertainment 2893
AMC’s critically acclaimed series “Dark Winds” returned for its third season yesterday. Set in the 1970s Southwest, the series follows Navajo Tribal Police officers Joe Leaphorn, Jim Chee, and Bernadette Manuelito as they confront a string of increasingly complex and dangerous cases.
March 08, 2025 Native News Online Staff Arts & Entertainment 3214
On Thursday, March 6, AMC Networks celebrated the highly anticipated third season of the critically acclaimed noir thriller Dark Winds with a red carpet and screening event at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in New York City. The event took place ahead of the season premiere, airing Sunday, March 9, at 9 p.m. ET/PT on AMC and AMC+.
Health
Environment
March 13, 2025 Native News Online Staff Environment 769
Leaders of the Seneca Nation are once again calling on the City of Olean, New York to take decisive action to fix longstanding failures in its wastewater and stormwater infrastructure. These failures have led to the chronic discharge of untreated sewage into the Allegheny River—an invaluable natural and cultural resource for the Seneca people.
February 21, 2025 Jennifer Wybieracki Environment 2203
NUIQSUT, Alaska — On a summer evening last August, the gravel roads led residents toward Nuiqsut’s Trapper School for an Iñupiat ceremonial dance. The village of just over 500 welcomed congressmen from across Alaska, a week before the state’s primary election. Wooden bleachers in the school’s new gymnasium, paid for with oil money, were crowded with excited locals sitting behind the state congressmen filling in the first two rows. Performers sat in the center of the gym, with the men in the front row wearing green regalia, and women, wearing pink, filed into the second and third rows. Each dance told a unique story. One performed by the village’s young boys was about fighting your enemy. Each pair of boys mimicked punches and jabs to the beat of drums, but by the end of the dance, they shook hands, stronger as a pair. Read the story at Native News Online .