Tribal members hoping to purchase a home on tribal land often face a gauntlet of red tape, delays and complicated legal arrangements.
A group of Indigenous activists and allies are occupying the central office of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Washington, D.C.
Two tribal citizens are joining the Indian Affairs team at the Department of the Interior.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland addresses the National Congress of American Indians on October 12, 2021.
Our mission as tribal government leaders is always to protect our sovereignty and advance issues critical to our people.
Vice President Kamala Harris addresses the National Congress of American Indians on October 12, 2021.
President Joe Biden delivers remarks on national monuments at the White House on October 8, 2021.
President Joe Biden is making history with the first-ever White House proclamation on Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a legislative hearing on October 6, 2021.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States hosts a legislative hearing on October 5, 2021.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is getting back to work with a hearing on tribal water rights settlements that are being supported by the Biden administration.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States is getting back to work with a legislative hearing.
The nation’s highest court is running into snags that have plagued other institutions grappling with the ongoing health crisis.
A prominent Republican tried to derail the nomination of Bob Anderson to serve as the Solicitor at the Department of the Interior.
Alaska Native corporations are figuring out how to distribute the funds more than a year after the CARES Act lawsuit started.
Today we continue the fight for our rights, until everyone in Indian Country can freely cast their ballot.
“Water is a sacred resource, and water rights are crucial to ensuring the health, safety and empowerment of Tribal communities,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
Mark your calendars. The White House Tribal Nations Summit is returning after a four-year absence.
Long considered by legal experts as the gold standard of adoption law, the Indian Child Welfare Act faces its most significant legal challenge yet.
“There was a time, not long ago, where Indigenous people were supposed to be terminated,” said attorney Victoria Holland.
The United States faces an October deadline to respond to concerns about human rights abuses of Native people who are resisting the Line 3 pipeline on Ojibwe treaty territory.
The federal government has never fully met its trust responsibility to ensure that all citizens of tribal nations have quality health care.
Australia is paying out close to $379 million directly to Indigenous peoples who suffered from the government’s forced removal of children from families.
“Racism and prejudice towards tribes in our states is alive and well,” said a former federal prosecutor.
The House Committee on Natural Resource is meeting to consider billions of dollars of investments in Indian Country.
A proposed change in the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act would give tribes added muscle to hold museums accountable for the ancestors they continue to keep in their collections.
The first time Ozzy Watchman took his daughter, Navajo Nation police never responded to the family’s call for help, relatives said.
Indigenous nations across the country have experienced chronic federal underfunding, which has led to disproportionate impacts tied to COVID-19 through housing, employment, public safety, food security, health care and economic outcomes.
The Muscogee Nation has repeatedly invited the Governor of Oklahoma to join forces and partner with us, but he refuses.
If the National Environmental Policy Act is weakened, so is the safety of me, my family, and my people.
Native America Calling will hear about the series and from some of the people who continue to work toward protecting sacred land.
The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals hears oral arguments in Rosebud Sioux Tribe v. United States, a treaty rights case, on March 18, 2021.
Every day that Christine Benally looks out of the window of her home, she’s reminded of how the federal government failed to protect her child.
President Biden is once again making history with his choice to lead the National Park Service, the federal agency that oversees millions of acres of ancestral tribal territories and treaty lands.
“They’re just little victims everywhere,” a child abuse specialist on the Navajo Nation said.
A budget blueprint that just passed the U.S. Senate calls for $20.5 billion in spending for American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian programs.
The U.S. Senate finally confirmed Bryan Newland, a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community, to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.
The Biden administration is seeking nominations for the Not Invisible Act Commission to address missing, murdered and trafficked Native Americans.
The American Jobs Plan will bring an additional $12 billion in much-needed infrastructure to Indian Country.
When the federal government invests in Indian Country, it is not only tribal citizens who benefit.
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