This past week was significant with the first presidential proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day but the news unfortunately eclipsed another major policy announcement from President Joe Biden.
Our mission as tribal government leaders is always to protect our sovereignty and advance issues critical to our people.
True peace will come about when Native residential school children, now buried, arise and are returned to the embrace of their ancestors in their home territories.
The opioid crisis affected every facet of Cherokee society, including our economy, our health system, our schools and our families.
The loss of an Indigenous woman’s life is all too familiar in our communities.
Violence against Indigenous women is preventable and will end when Indian Nations have the full authority of self-government.
The education system needs to help teachers address, repair and heal education towards and beyond reconciliation.
Land stewardship is at the core of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, also known as ANCSA.
When I opened an office of my newspaper in Rapid City back in the 1980s one of my frequent visitors was Lloyd Goings.
Today we continue the fight for our rights, until everyone in Indian Country can freely cast their ballot.
Our collective future is being written today by the investments we make in our youngest children.
To grow the economy across the Cherokee Nation Reservation, we must be forward thinking, collaborative and willing to work across borders.
The feelings I carry about being in New York City on 9/11 run through me, right under my skin, like mercury.
The federal government has never fully met its trust responsibility to ensure that all citizens of tribal nations have quality health care.
Many of the original survivors of the Stolen Generations have passed away without seeing justice.
The Democratic Party gained many new members in Indian Country because of the man they called FDR.
Forty-six years ago, one of the greatest athletes and a true Indigenous icon, made the transition from a star on earth to a star in the sky.
You are the best person to judge your safety.
As a tribe, we are building programs and making strategic investments that will benefit Cherokee citizens, families, communities and neighbors for generations to come.
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.
Humanity mandates decisions based upon mutual consent between the United States and Native Sovereign Nations.
We have already lost far too many beloved community members to this disease.
People ask why the residential-boarding school survivors, their respective families and supporters wear orange.
When we say, “domestic violence is not traditional,” it is to remind Native Americans of a time before colonization.
Cherokee military veterans have made great sacrifices to protect our tribal nation and the whole United States.
They have tried to exterminate or assimilate us and they have failed.
The sordid history of the U.S. effort to bring Native children into boarding schools is, quite frankly, staggering.
All our generations exist in us and one day our ancestors will carry us home.
Almost 2,000 Native children have been found on the grounds of former residential schools and thousands more have yet to be located.
We all have a role to play as we combat this new surge in the global pandemic.
The American Jobs Plan will bring an additional $12 billion in much-needed infrastructure to Indian Country.
Abuse can happen to anyone.
When the federal government invests in Indian Country, it is not only tribal citizens who benefit.
Medicaid is a lifeline for Indian Country, plain and simple.
A strong and effective Cherokee Council means a strong and effective Cherokee democracy.
We must continue to make it a priority for health care to be universally accessible for our citizens.
We need to organize and find out why none of these murders have been solved.
The Akwesasne community demonstrated in the most powerful way its desire to address the terrible effects residential schools have had on the people.
When I was a boy in Rapid City, the only bald-headed men I saw were white men.
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