Al Jazeera: Task force hears of struggles facing Native youth (February 13, 2014)

The Advisory Committee of the Attorney General's Task Force on American Indian and Alaska Native Children Exposed to Violence held its second meeting this week.

Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly vetoes junk food tax bill (February 13, 2014)

Navajo Nation President Ben Shelly on Wednesday vetoed the Healthy Diné Nation Act, a bill that imposes a higher tax on junk foods.

Native Sun News: LastRealIndians raises heat assistance funds (February 13, 2014)

The independent indigenous social media website LastRealIndians.com is embracing the term 'advocate journalism' in a very real and meaningful way by doing its part to help keep people warm in the midst of a propane crisis on the northern plains.

Native Sun News: Propane shortage causes scramble for tribes (February 13, 2014)

The pinch that the financial and human toll that the propane shortage has caused across the country is hitting tribal communities across the northern plains particularly hard as both tribal members and tribal governments scramble to find ways to stay warm.

Ivan Starr: Don't treat alcoholism like a crime - it's an illness (February 13, 2014)

I know the alcohol ban on the Pine Ridge began in the mid-1800s.