Selected Native American News Stories

Last updated: November 16, 2018

Next update is planned to be published by: November 30, 2018

This page includes news from the most recent update.
To see earlier articles, please visit the news archive.

Culture and Tradition

Tribal Council funds identification survey of fluent Cherokee speakers (Native News Online) 11/15/18

Christopher Columbus statue to be removed from Grand Park in Los Angeles on Saturday (Native News Online) 11/9/18

Hoeven to serve as Honorary Member of National Native American Veterans Memorial Committee (U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs) 11/8/18

Economic Development

Tribes see another decline in slot machine revenues in Connecticut (Indianz) 11/15/18

Ho-Chunk Nation takes step forward with off-reservation casino (Indianz) 11/12/18

Education

Navajo Techinical University recognized as one of the best colleges in New Mexico (Native News Online) 11/14/18

Digitization provides access to Native American archives (Information Today) 11/13/18

Environment and Energy

Zinke gave rare attention to Alaska: The next secretary of the Interior should do likewise (Daily News-Miner) 11/15/18

Interior secretary sides with tribes in drilling dispute (Minnesota Lawyer) 11/14/18

Native Sun News Today: Lakota activists stall uranium mining hearing (Indianz) 11/14/18

Breaking free: Alaska's path forward for renewable Arctic energy (The Arctic Institute) 11/13/18

Tribes see setback in caribou reintroduction efforts in Lower 48 (Indianz) 11/12/18

Tribes react to Judge halting Trump's Keystone XL Pipeline "invasion" (Native News Online) 11/9/18

EPA, states and tribes seek millions for cleanup costs of American Zinc, Lead and Smelting sites (St. Louis Record) 11/9/18

Judge blocks Keystone XL pipeline (The Hill) 118/18

Health and Welfare

New report highlights flaws in police data on missing, murdered Indigenous women and girls (The Seattle Times) 11/15/18 (See Report via Turtle Talk)

Mobile markets deliver healthy food and build community (Second Wave Michigan) 11/14/18

Tribal housing reorganization still stalled (Smoky Mountain News) 11/14/18

Anti-Indian hate crimes rose dramatically in first year of Trump presidency (Indianz) 11/13/18

Bill to address missing and murdered sisters scheduled for action (Indianz) 11/12/18 (See 115th Congress S.1942)

Microsoft helps bring broadband internet to rural tribal lands (Engadget) 11/8/18

Another tribe asserts authority over non-Indians as VAWA remains in limbo (Indianz) 11/2/18

Intergovernmental

Navajo Nation leadership meets with White House Officials to advocate for continuation of operations of Navajo Generating Station (Native News Online) 11/16/18

'Termination is here': Tribes rally against Trump administration (Indianz) 11/14/18

Blackfeet Nation receives grant to aid tribal, federal prosecutions (Department of Justice) 11/13/18

Witness list for Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing (Indianz) 11/13/18 (See 115th Congress S.2788, H.R.2606, H.R.4032)

Land and Water

Mashantucket Pequot, Mohegan leaders expected to march in support of Mass. tribe (The Day) 11/12/18

Recognition and Enrollment

In historic move, New Jersey acknowledges Native American tribe, will pay $2.4 million (NBC 10) 11/16/18

Nanticoke Lenni-Lenape Tribal Nation public statement of gratitude (Indianz) 11/15/18

Should the BIA get out of the blood degree business? (Indian Country Today) 11/14/18

Sacred Places

Deadline looms in Badger-Two Medicine decision (Flathead Beacon) 11/12/18

We all must speak up to protect our national monuments (The Hill) 11/9/18

Voting

Native Americans win elections in Utah after voicing support for Bears Ears (Sierra Club) 11/15/18

Lujan, House Democrats introduce legislation to protect Native American voting rights (U.S. Representative Ben Ray Lujan) 11/14/18 (See 115th Congress H.R.7127)

In one Utah county, redrawing voting maps led to the historic shift for Navajo lawmakers (PBS) 11/12/18

Few Native American voters had ID issues in North Dakota (WTOC 11) 11/8/18

Native American Rep.-Elect Deb Haaland makes history with Congressional win (WBUR) 11/8/18

Only one state makes history with election of first Native governor (Indianz) 11/7/18