The National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development is celebrating young leaders at the Reservation Economic Summit.
Tribes maintain schedules for harvests, ceremonies, family and feasts. How does the concept of time factor in?
Two recent events are major wins for tribes fighting to restore natural salmon runs in the Pacific Northwest.
Overfishing in Japan, a thriving black market, and even the Fukushima nuclear disaster are all fanning the flames of fishing disputes involving tribes and First Nations in the U.S. and Canada.
Native agriculture is now a $6.4 billion industry, doubling in sales from 2017 to 2022.
Federal energy officials took the unusual step of denying permits to several pumped hydropower projects proposed on the Navajo Nation, citing a new policy that gives tribes a greater voice in projects on their lands.
The National Congress of American Indians opened its executive council winter session in Washington, D.C.
According to the Department of Agriculture, 59 percent of farmers in Arizona were Native, more than any other state.
It would be hard to find a legal victory any more important than the ruling named after federal judge George Hugo Boldt in 1974.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is taking testimony on five bills.
Tribes and organizations are urging federal officials to continue protections for 28 million acres in Alaska.
Which government agencies, museums, universities and other institutions still have work to do when it comes to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act? Find the list here.
Museums and educational institutions are facing new pressures to comply with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act amid high-level attention to the decades-old law.
The federal agency that oversees the Endangered Species Act will not add Northern Rockies wolves back onto the list of threatened and endangered species.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is hosting its first hearing of 2024.
Tribal communities are on the frontlines of a push to create new, domestic sources for lithium.
Read a transcript of remarks from Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) about the Native American Graves Protection Act and Repatriation Act.
Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) delivers remarks on the Native American Graves Protection Act and Repatriation Act on February 1, 2024.
The Biden administration’s renewable energy agenda is being tested in court with a lawsuit from tribes opposed to a $4 billion development that runs through their homelands.
The public, states, tribes, the scientific community and other stakeholders are invited to weigh in on a grizzly bear reintroduction plan.
The Ute Tribe is banning non-members from engaging in hunting, fishing and other outdoor recreational activities on its lands in Utah.
Tribal cultural resources are being threatened by growing demand for renewable energy projects.
The federal government is soliciting input on a plan to open public lands to new solar projects.
Author, historian and Haskell Indian Nations University professor Daniel Wildcat believes in the power of Indigenous knowledge to counter big problems.
When Adrian Herder saw the plans for a hydropower project on the Navajo Nation, he was shocked by the “outrageous” amounts of water the project would reportedly use.
The increase in unprecedented damage from wildfires knows no boundaries and international Indigenous fire management experts see global participation as a solution.
The northern lights are a cultural touchstone, handed down over millennia among Native peoples.
The Biden administration just announced more than $4.3 million in funding to bolster meat processing in Indian Country.
Behind American Indian Hall on the Montana State University campus, ancient life is growing.
Tribal leaders and federal officials participate in a panel on tribal homelands and climate change at the White House Tribal Nations Summit on December 6, 2023.
Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack delivers remarks at the White House Tribal Nations Summit on December 6, 2023.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland delivers remarks at the opening of the third annual White House Tribal Nations Summit.
The memoir of the late educator, writer and artist Thomas Pecore Weso was just published. Join the conversation on Native America Calling.
Join Native America Calling to talk with traditional builders who carry on igloo and winter house building.
There is no more basic need than clean drinking water. That’s a need that the Santee Sioux Nation in Nebraska has been lacking since 2019.
Tribes are working to reduce the spread of chronic wasting disease, a fatal neurological disorder that affects deer, elk, and other big game animals.
Through the Inflation Reduction Act, the U.S. Forest Service will receive $5 billion over 10 years, including $1.8 billion that will be used to increase forest treatments in Western states.
The increase in unprecedented damage from wildfires knows no boundaries and international Indigenous fire management experts see global participation as a solution.
The leader of the Tohono O’odham said construction of a border wall on his tribe’s territory has caused irreversible damage.
Since time immemorial, the Kuskokwim River in Alaska has fed Native families. But years of failed salmon runs are threatening their lives and livelihoods.
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