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Selected Native American News Stories

Last updated: April 16, 2025

Next update should be ready by: April 23, 2025

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Education

Tribes, North Dakota partner to update 30-year-old textbooks on Native history (North Dakota Monitor) 4/14/2025

Environmental Protection & Climate Change

Federal funding freeze halts key infrastructure projects in tribal communities (NPR) 4/14/2025

Hunting and Fishing

Alaska Tribes sue US Army Corps of Engineers over approval of controversial gold mining operation (Courthouse News Service) 4/10/2025

Mascots, Hate & Native Representation

After a decade of failed attempts, bill establishing Indigenous Peoples Day poised to become law (Montana Free Press) 4/10/2025

Native Lands & Sacred Places

Will Native Tribes secure Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument? (LA Times) 4/15/2025

Maine governor opposes plan to protect tribal lands (ICT) 4/15/2025

Explainer: how the University of Minnesota system endowment, mining industry benefit from seized Indigenous land (Minnesota Public Radio News) 4/14/2025

All Pueblo Council of Governors applauds reintroduction of legislation to protect Chaco Canyon (Native News Online) 4/10/2025

NCAI stands with Tribal Nations on threats to national monuments and sacred tribal lands (Native News Online) 4/10/2025

Tribal Nations send letter defending creation of Chuckwalla Monument (KESQ News Channel 3 Palm Springs CA) 4/10/2025

Tribal Sovereignty and Jurisdiction

Investing in sovereignty: the Oweesta approach (Forbes) 4/14/2025

Montana Legislature hits pause on Public Law 280 (Hagadone News Network) 4/11/2025

Trust Fund Matters

RFK Jr. wants to target chronic disease in US Tribes. A key program to do that was gutted (The Daily News - Washington) 4/13/2025

Violence Against Native People

Lac du Flambeau woman is latest in ‘public health crisis’ of missing Indigenous women in Wisconsin (Wisconsin Public Radio) 4/15/2025

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