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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Every day is Earth Day for Indigenous people
April 22, 2025
A worldwide survey finds 89 percent of the world’s people believe their country should do more to fight climate change.
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Trump directive creates chaos on the Colorado River
April 17, 2025
The Gila River Indian Community received $105 million for water conservation in 2022 but lost it briefly this year after Trump froze federal funding.
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New Mexico becomes 20th state to guarantee students’ right to wear regalia
March 31, 2025
New Mexico officials are hoping that Native high school students celebrate their identity in upcoming graduation ceremonies under a new law securing their right to wear culturally significant clothing, accessories and objects during school events.
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Peggy Flanagan hopes to be the first Native woman in US Senate
February 20, 2025
The Minnesota lieutenant governor officially kicks off her campaign.
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‘Finally Free’: Leonard Peltier heads home to North Dakota
February 18, 2025
The AIM activist was released from federal prison after gaining clemency from President Joe Biden. He spent 49 years behind bars in what he has long maintained was a wrongful conviction in the deaths of two federal agents.
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‘Life or Death Consequences’: Layoffs throw Indian Country into turmoil
February 14, 2025
A coalition of tribal organizations issued a sharp response to the ongoing layoffs of thousands of federal employees across Indian Country, expressing “grave concerns” about the “catastrophic” impact to Indian health services, education, law enforcement, fire suppression and other programs delivering services to tribal nations, citizens and communities.
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‘Losing our voice, losing our space’
February 07, 2025
The Trump administration’s sweeping orders could force some tribal colleges and universities to shut down, school leaders said.
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Interior Secretary nominee questioned about stance on Native issues
January 17, 2025
Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum faced a Senate committee Thursday that questioned related to his nomination as Secretary of the Interior including on issues affecting tribes.
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Native vote could prove critical in Montana U.S. Senate race
November 03, 2024
There are 65,000 eligible Native voters in Montana, but more than 35,000 – more than half – were not registered to vote, according to local organizers.
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President Biden to issue boarding school apology – at last
October 24, 2024
The president will be at Gila River Indian Community to acknowledge the trauma wreaked by U.S. forced assimilation policies.
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Tim Walz heads to Navajo Nation
October 23, 2024
A planned visit to Window Rock, Arizona, this weekend by the Democratic vice presidential nominee continues the Harris-Walz campaign’s outreach to Native voters in the battleground state.
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J.D. Vance’s ‘fake holiday’ and ‘two-spirit’ comments raise concerns
July 18, 2024
Native leaders speak out about the GOP vice presidential nominee’s perspectives on Indigenous issues.
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100 years of citizenship – tribal advocates press citizens to vote
July 04, 2024
Oklahoma tribes have also made efforts in the past four years to increase Native voter registration.
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50 years later, Lakota girl still missing
February 26, 2024
Family remembers 12-year-old Delema Sits Poor on 50th anniversary of her disappearance from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
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A Native voting ecosystem in Nevada
February 21, 2024
Grassroots organizations, the state Indian commission, county governments and tribal nations work collectively to increase Native American voter engagement.
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