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NATIVE VOTE 2026
Get-out-the-vote funding available for Native youth projects
The Center for Native American Youth at the Aspen Institute will award projects to boost voter registration and turnout in Indigenous communities
New Mexico Dem governor nominee Haaland announces data center moratorium executive order if elected
Haaland defends taking money from data center company.
Go ahead and mail that ballot (trust, but verify)
ANALYSIS: Supreme Court says administration’s push to implement voting restrictions this year is likely to lose in court
North Dakota tribes will re-argue their voter discrimination case
‘North Dakota intentionally packed and cracked Native voters to weaken our political voice’
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‘Coming home to our ancestral land’
Homelands Powwow rekindling Stockbridge-Munsee ties to Hudson Valley, western Massachusetts
2026 Orange Shirt Day event list
Thousands of people across Turtle Island will gather to remember, grieve, educate, mourn those who survived and are victims of Indian boarding and residential schools
At least a dozen graves of Milwaukee Indian boarding school students uncovered
ICT has identified Indigenous students who died at a federally funded institution in Wisconsin
Border wall threatens tribe’s way of life
Trump administration plan would split the Tohono O’odham nation apart, damage sacred sites, tribal leaders say.
Tribal leaders talk AI, proposed legislation and national priorities at annual Northwest convention
IHS director Mark Cruz outlines request for a departmental increase in funding; assistant secretary of the Interior William Kirkland looks to hire 400 new BIA employees; tribal leaders share concerns about AI; and federal legislation is outlined during annual ATNI convention.
‘Patient, gentle and brave’: An unexpected clue leads to family for an Alaska Native student who died at the Carlisle school
Repatriations continue with the remains of four students from Alaska finally headed home after more than 100 years
POWWOW
Intergenerational Two-Spirit head dancers find joy in expressing themselves freely
Theo Wright and his dad, Asa Wright, have both served as Two-Spirit head dancers at…
#YDL: Lobster roll is the new powwow food
Experiencing new Indigenous cuisine on the powwow trail
Native veterans are central to the powwow scene
Powwows provide space for community and healing for many Native veterans
50 years on the powwow trail
Sicangu announcer honors the past and guides the next generation
Dancing to your own style
Two-Spirit dancer found healing through self-expression in the powwow circle
The evolution of powwow dances
Powwow goers share how they’ve seen styles of dances change over time and what…
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