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Tribes reached a $590 million settlement against pharmaceutical companies in ongoing legal fights to hold them accountable for the opioid addiction and overdose crisis.
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A prominent Indian Country artist has been charged in connection with an incident involving a minor.
Five young Native leaders are the latest to be recognized by the Center for Native Youth for addressing injustices and shaping their collective future.
The Biden administration has confirmed that the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation owns the minerals underneath the Missouri River.
COVID hit public schools in the tribal capital hard, amplifying long-standing staffing shortages, disrupting routines, and giving administrators, teachers and students new lessons in resilience.
“For 90 years, the Washington Football Team perpetuated discriminatory and racist behavior both through their use of a dictionary-defined racial slur as a team name and a false and offensive caricature of Native culture as a mascot,” said Crystal Echo Hawk.
Indigi-Genius is a new public television series explores the contributions of Indigenous knowledge.
Human rights experts from the United Nations are calling on the United States to prevent the evictions of former citizens of the Nooksack Tribe.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts an oversight hearing titled “The Long Journey Home: Advancing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act’s Promise After 30 Years of Practice.”
This month kicks off the United Nations International Decade of Indigenous Languages.
Nāpua Greig, a Native Hawaiian musician and educator, offers an opening song at a Senate Committee on Indian Affairs oversight hearing.
Former citizens of the Nooksack Tribe have won temporary respite from being evicted from their federally-funded homes in Washington state.
Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-New Mexico), a key member of Congress who serves on the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, has been hospitalized after suffering a stroke.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts an oversight hearing titled “The Long Journey Home: Advancing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act’s Promise After 30 Years of Practice.”
It’s no stretch to find Native influences in many of the defining dishes of African American food in the South.
The least favorite person on the Rezball court is usually the referee.
The Biden administration is taking greater steps to enforce the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, more than 30 years after the law went on the books.
Are COVID-19 tests reaching tribal and rural households? The Biden administration is being pressed to do more.
The Supreme Court will revisit – but not overturn – its landmark 2020 decision that said a large part of eastern Oklahoma is still part of the Muscogee Nation.
The United States must keep its treaty promise to Cherokee Nation. Now, let us move forward.
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There are a lot of questions—and confusing answers—out there as the COVID-19 pandemic heads into its third year.
Leaders of a U.S. Congressional committee will host a roundtable to examine what they are calling the “toxic workplace culture” within the Washington professional football team.
The White House isn’t shedding light on what President Biden thinks about imprisoned American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier.
Join “The Menu” — hosted by Native America Calling’s resident foodie Andi Murphy.
Residents of the Navajo Nation have lived without easy access to clean water for decades.
What we are facing has been, and continues to be, a settler colonial crisis, which under its current guise, seeks to replace us.
You are sacred. You deserve a healthy relationship, where you feel safe and loved.
As the political landscape changes, the LandBack movement gathers momentum as never before.
Generational trauma is woven into the fabric of Native life.
It’s been a year since Joe Biden took office as president of the United States and he has yet to name a permanent leader of the Indian Health Service.
“Australia Day” marks the start of colonial oppression of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders.
Indigenous representation does matter.
We are at a crossroads in United States and Indigenous history.
The Cherokee Nation is launching a program to provide up to $1 million in incentives for productions filmed on the tribe’s reservation.
Hawaii is a major vacation destination — and that’s a problem, according to Native Hawaiians who are fed up with the relentless invasion of visitors.
Cherokee Nation families deserve emergency responders who can always bring rapid care in a crisis.
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