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Supreme Court Denies Latest Challenge to Indian Child Welfare Act
The Protect ICWA Campaign, which includes several Indigenous rights groups, praised the high court’s rejection of the plaintiff’s petition, calling ICWA the “gold standard in child welfare policy.”
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Fun With the Drum: Medicine, Rhythm, and the Sacred Little Ones
The first session of the Sacred Little Ones series brought caregivers and children together around the drum. Fun with the Drum: Benefits of Creative Expression was led by…
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NATIVE VOTE 2026
Tribal leaders message for mail-in voting: vote early, hand deliver to ballot drop box
Voting concerns central theme at Affiliated Tribes of Northwest Indians annual convention
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
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Chicago housing project aims to fulfill 70-year-old promise to Native people
False pretenses lured thousands of Indigenous people cities, a new effort works to take a healing step
Orange Shirt Day: ‘education was used as a weapon against us’
Indigenous communities honor boarding school survivors, victims
A somber Remembrance Day begins the journey back to Alaska for three students who died while attending Carlisle
A formal ceremony marked the return of the students’ remains to their families and tribes, who are taking them home after more than 100 years *Updated
The Red Cliff Band and the future of the Apostle Islands
Tribal leaders in the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and others living in Bayfield County question a federal bill to redesignate the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore as a national park.
National Archives schedules virtual tribal consultation meetings
Tribal leaders are invited to attend one of two meetings regarding upcoming closures to the Chicago and San Francisco National Archives locations
‘Somebody has to remember them, and we’re going to do it’
Communities prepare for Orange Shirt Day to honor Indigenous children sent to boarding schools
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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