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Beginning last year, FanDuel made a series of hires strongly suggesting it now wants to work with California’s gaming tribes, not against them

Indigenous headlines for Saturday, Nov. 7, 2024

The new census form will collect more detail by allowing free-form answers, including making it possible for people to identify themselves as part of more racial and ethnic subgroups and include alternative names for certain groups, such as writing “Schitsu’umsh,” the ancient language for “Coeur D’Alene Tribe.”

A 90-day youth residential treatment program with NARA NW, a Portland-based nonprofit founded in 1970, provides culturally competent addiction care to Native people.

New Barbie doll is part of the company's Inspiring Women Series

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The National Missing and Unidentified Persons System showed a dozen missing Indigenous women from Arizona as of mid-2020. They’d been missing, on average, for 21 years. But the Arizona-based Navajo Nation alone lists 22 missing women. Some of the cases date to the 1970s.

Nearly 150 years after a historic escape and massacre, the Northern Cheyenne Tribe is charting a trail to heal and save history

Chair of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, U.S. Sen. Brian Schatz made a plea to President Joe Biden on behalf of Leonard Peltier asking that Biden grant clemency to American Indian Movement activist Leonard Peltier

First-time author Brook M. Thompson was inspired by Klamath Dam removal to write a children’s book ‘I Love Salmon and Lampreys: A Native Story of Resilience’

The filmmaker returns to a booming Canadian Indigenous film scene with ‘Aberdeen’ and what she calls an ‘Indigenous Thelma and Louise’

Thirty-two Oklahoma law enforcement officials signed a letter calling on the United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians' police department to cease attempting to exercise criminal jurisdiction over the entire Cherokee Nation Reserve

Opioid addiction has devastated Native families in Minnesota. A group of Native mothers shared their experiences with substance abuse and the lessons from their recovery.

Nearly 72 percent of Native candidates this political season won their races, according to the ICT and Advance Native Political database. However, Native candidates didn’t do as well in national races

Documents filed in GreenPeace vs. Energy Transfers revealed a drilling mud spill during the initial construction of the pipeline. Tribe sues Corps for allowing the pipeline to operate

Coverage around the world on Indigenous issues for the week ending Dec. 1, 2024

The paid fellowship will provide coverage of Indigenous issues in the upcoming 2025 Montana legislative session

'I’m hoping that through this project, we can also be helpful to the community and curb further tragedies from happening and helping individuals, families and communities live long, healthier, happy lives'

For almost ten years, the MOMS program in Minnesota has helped dozens of women and their partners to rebuild their lives, stay sober and thrive as parents. Experts say its lessons could help other communities struggling with opioid abuse.

The Pokanoket Nation said the encampment was aimed at reclaiming the tribe's ancestral home in Bristol, which contains spiritually important sites

Working with students and families can bring students back into the classroom

School efforts to help students have made the state among the best in the nation for Native student attendance

“We're back to the way we were before,” Siletz Chairman Delores Pigsley said. “It feels really good.”

Following the presidential election, the Lumbee hope there will be momentum behind their cause, but they face deep-rooted opposition from tribal nations across the country

The proposal could increase annual timber harvests by at least 33 percent and potentially more than 200 percent

Most cases under review involve the deaths of Native Americans

Tribal and treaty council representatives hope proposed legislative language to return federal lands in South Dakota's Black Hills to Lakota people can be turned into a Congressional bill

A teenager was killed by police just days after the unrelated murder of a young woman

The man died in custody after being arrested by Royal Canadian Mounted Police

Kotek visited each of Oregon’s nine federally recognized tribes over the summer

New documentary details a personal journey for a Native journalist

"Sustainability is an empty word if you don't respect and implement Indigenous rights here in our homelands"

A decades-long battle between environmentalists and agencies over the future of river has been complicated by January’s presidential transition

The Cowlitz are working to maintain their traditional values for their Two-Spirit relatives by protecting and providing gender-affirming care for their gender-diverse citizens through the Health and Human Services department

How the first Pilgrims and the Puritans differed in their views on religion and respect for Native Americans

The Osage Nation signed a fee-to-trust land agreement with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for its 43,000-acre Osage Nation Ranch. The event, which took place at the Osage Casino in Pawhuska on Nov. 18, was eight years in the making

The 22nd Annual Memorial March to Honor Our Lost Children in Sioux City, Iowa, was held Wednesday to raise awareness of the disproportionate rate of Native children placed in the foster care system

Spend the last few days of Native American Heritage Month celebrating Indigeneity on the big screen

“Little Ones,” a comedic opera telling the story of Indigenous youth at Intermountain Indian School, is in its beginning stages of development but gave a glimpse of what’s to come with the launch of its community listening tour at the Center for Native Arts and Cultures

Coverage around the world on Indigenous issues for the week ending Nov. 24, 2024

COVID-19 rates are expected to rise this winter, impacting minority and poor communities the most

A $300 billion-a-year deal for climate cash at UN summit sparks outrage for some and hope for others

If confirmed as Secretary of the Interior, Burgum would manage a department that oversees federal lands and offshore waters, from which 26 percent of US oil production comes

ICT and the Rapid City Journal's Amelia Schafer spent five months investigating the Immaculate Conception Mission in Stephan, S.D.

National monument proposed for North Dakota Badlands, with tribes' support

St. Louis was once known as Mound City for its many Native American mounds. Just one remains

Federal water officials have made no recommendations yet

Thirty-eight graves uncovered at South Dakota boarding school; Catholic church offers little help in identifying graves

The "Indian peach" survived genocide. Can it withstand climate change?

Prison officials closed the sweat lodges at the South Dakota State Penitentiary after finding contraband inside them. They have since reopened the sweat lodges