The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced yesterday awards to all 50 states under the Rural Health Transformation Program, a new initiative touted as the solution to the healthcare ...

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

“The idea was that you were too native to be white and too white to be native” — MaggieJo Widdecombe. Métis translates to ‘mixed blood’ or ‘half blood’ in French. MaggieJo Widdecombe, a 2024 Montana ...

Here’s a roundup of our weekend coverage, plus some of the most widely read news from the past week. Honors and homecoming: Evanston native Michael DeVaul, who was a leader at the McGaw YMCA before ...

FORT MCDERMITT — Building the nation’s largest lithium mine on public land means a federal agency must, by law, consult with the original, Indigenous stewards of the land. But what that looks like in ...

Long before Europeans arrived, North America was shaped by powerful civilizations built on trade, agriculture, and warfare. Climate shifts, internal conflict, and changing technology fractured these ...

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Renewable energy is an internal Tribal matter and an exercise of sovereignty—not something that requires approval from rural electric cooperatives. Guest Opinion. In May, at a Tribal clean energy ...

In Alaska, the last stronghold for wild salmon, Native tribes and conservationists are working to save the fish from both climate change and decades of corporate greed. Salmon swimming against the ...

The Senate approved the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) yesterday, authorizing nearly $900 billion in military spending next year—and all but guaranteeing federal recognition for the ...

With the passage of the National Defense Authorization Act by the Senate on Wednesday, the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina is all but assured to become a federally recognized tribal nation. The ...