Native Americans

Federal funding freeze halts key infrastructure projects in tribal communities

9:55pm April 14, 2025

Riverbank stabilization, lead and asbestos contamination are just some of the projects tribes planned to address before the Trump administration froze funds.

Leonard Peltier leaves prison after Biden ended his sentence in FBI agents' killings

1:15am February 18, 2025

Peltier's imprisonment had symbolized systemic injustice for Native Americans across the country who believe in his innocence.

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Outgoing Interior Secretary Deb Haaland hands off closer ties with Indian Country

1:03am January 19, 2025

Deb Haaland, the country's first indigenous cabinet secretary, used her term at the Interior Department to make what activists say is irreversible impact in recognizing the painful history of the government's treatment Native Americans

In this school's election, it's pizza vs. chicken nuggets, with democracy as the winner

5:00am October 31, 2024

At an Arizona tribal school, it's a fierce campaign to pick the top school lunch, as students learn about making their voice count

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Biden offers apology for 'horrific era' of U.S. Native American boarding schools

5:00am October 25, 2024

Biden visited Arizona on Friday to apologize for the horrors of the federal Indian boarding schools that ran for over 150 years, and also trumpet the administration's policies to help Native American communities.

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Democrats court Native American voters at their convention in Chicago

5:00am August 23, 2024

Activists noted that Native American voter turnout in swing states is what helped President Biden win during the last cycle.

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A young bison calf with its herd at Bull Hollow, Okla., on Sept. 27, 2022. American bison, or buffalo, have bounced back from their near extinction due to commercial hunting in the 1800s. Many tribes are participating in their restoration.

With bison herds and ancestral seeds, Indigenous communities embrace food sovereignty

7:00am December 09, 2023

by Jim Robbins

Native Americans are returning to raising buffalo and plants that tribes have grown for millennia. It's a way to reconnect with historic traditions, and to bring healthy eating to their communities.

Reva Stewart preparing to meet people without housing at a park in Phoenix

Fake 'sober homes' targeting Native Americans scam millions from taxpayers

10:48am August 31, 2023

by Alice Fordham

The scale of a scam to recruit Native Americans into fake treatment for substance in Phoenix and bill the government fraudulently is now emerging. It's huge.

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Lemiley Lane, who grew up in the Navajo Nation in Arizona, walks along the Bountiful High School campus during her junior year in 2020 in Bountiful, Utah. The school changed its nickname in 2021 to "The Redhawks."

As schools face calls to drop Native American mascots, some could lose state money

10:41am April 19, 2023

by Scott Neuman

New York on Tuesday became the latest state in the nation to move to force schools to do away with the use of Native American team names or mascots. Those that don't comply risk losing their funding.

Denise Lajimodiere speaks at the Minnesota Children's Book Festival in Red Wing, Minn., on Sept. 18, 2021. This week, Lajimodiere became the first Native American state poet laureate in North Dakota's history.

Denise Lajimodiere is named North Dakota's first Native American poet laureate

1:40pm April 07, 2023

by The Associated Press

A citizen of the Turtle Mountain band of Chippewa Indians, Lajimodiere has written several award-winning books of poetry and is an expert on the history of Native American boarding schools.