Selected Native American News Stories

Last updated: September 11, 2019

Next update is planned to be published by: September 19, 2019

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Culture and Tradition

Inaugural tattoo festival celebrates tradition that connects body art to indigenous past (Hawaii Tribune Herald) 9/12/19

Interview: 'We will always sing': Black Belt Eagle Scout makes space for the marginalized (NPR) 9/9/19

'Now is the time,' six Indigenous movies that capture Indigeneity (Indian Country Today) 9/9/19

Acoma -- protecting American Indian culture (Santa Fe New Mexican) 9/7/19

Opinion: America's obsession with killing Indians hasn't died (High Country News) 9/3/19

Economic Development

The Cedar Band Corporation is big business for the Cedar Band of Paiute (Indian Country Today) 9/5/19

Education

Nevada Native American tribes' history, issues explored at Carson City forum (The Nevada Appeal) 9/11/19

Oregon schools slowly rolling out Indigenous studies curriculum (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 9/9/19

Changing the Indian narrative in classrooms (Native Sun News Today) 8/28/19

Environment and Energy

US seeks dismissal of Native American tribes' lawsuit over Keystone Pipeline (Texarkana Gazette) 9/11/19

Judge allowing more tribes, groups to weigh in on DAPL lawsuit (The Bismarck Tribune) 9/6/19

EPA ignored tribal consultation (Native Sun News Today) 9/5/19

Toxic Alaska mine could 'destroy the world's last great sockeye salmon fishery' (Indian Country Today) 9/1/19

Health and Welfare

House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples convenes hearing on #MMIW crisis (Indianz) 9/11/19

Tim Giago: Is there a correlation between historic trauma and PTSD? (Indianz) 9/9/19

Native children still being lost to the child welfare system (Indianz) 9/9/19

Intergovernmental

Ahead of VAWA anniversary, Haaland builds bipartisan momentum behind House BADGES Act to fight violence against Native women, address missing and murdered Indigenous women crisis (U.S. Representative Deb Haaland) 9/11/19 (See 116th Congress S.1853)

Attorneys for Navajo man file stay of execution (Navajo Times) 9/10/19

Delegate Charlaine Tso delivers Violence Against Women Act testimony (Navajo-Hopi Observer) 9/10/19

'A historic leap forward': ND tribes sign updated agreement with state over child welfare services (The Bismarck Tribune) 9/6/19

Land and Water

The Shinnecock Nation's land: Is it a territory or a reservation? (The Southampton Press) 9/9/19

Court reverses ruling on UKB trust land (Tahlequah Daily Press) 9/5/19 (See Cherokee Nation v. Bernhardt)

Recognition and Enrollment

A 'sham': Southern Sierra Miwuk Nation being denied federal recognition (Indianz) 9/9/19

Rent is recognition and restitution for Seattle's Native inhabitants (Yes Magazine) 9/9/19

Tribal Government

Oglala Sioux Tribe passes hate crime legislation (Rapid City Journal) 9/7/19

Navajo council votes to opppose possible HUD limits on home-loan program (Indianz) 9/6/19