Fawn Sharp News Today

Taken from their families and sent to remote boarding schools, Native American children often faced sexual abuse by priests, brothers or sisters who ran the facilities.

The Nature Conservancy, a global nonprofit environmental organization, announced the appointment of Fawn Sharp this week to its global board of directors. Sharp— the former president of the National Congress of the American Indian and former president and vice president of her tribe, the Quinault Indian Nation in Washington State—will join two dozen other board members. The Board of Directors are responsible for determining TNC’s policy, according to the nonprofit’s...

As developers propose solar and wind projects across Washington, gaps in the permitting process threaten culturally significant tribal sites.

Tribal officials say the process threatens cultural resources and what remains of healthy Indigenous foodways.

The Badger Mountain solar project reveals gaps in the state’s permitting system that tribal nations say perpetuates a legacy of “cultural genocide.”

Leaders from nearly every nation across the world—including Indigenous representatives from North America—will meet today in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, to begin a nine-day climate conference known as the Conference of Parties, or COP28. Representatives from almost 200 countries have gathered for the COP annually since 1994, where world leaders negotiate international environmental treaties aimed at reducing carbon emissions and limiting global temperature rise under the United N...

The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) will elect a new president this week at its 80th Annual Convention and Marketplace in New Orleans, Louisiana. Current NCAI President Fawn Sharp (Quinault Indian Nation) is term-limited and cannot seek reelection. Three candidates are vying to replace Shapr: Cheryl Andrews-Maltais, chairwoman of the Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head Aquinnah;  Mark Macarro, tribal chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians; and  Marshall Pierite, c...

The publisher and editor of Native News Online Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation) will moderate the NCAI 2023 Presidential Candidate Forum on Tuesday, November 14, 2023 at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) 80th Annual Convention & Marketplace in New Orleans. Joining Rickert to ask questions during the forum will be former Sault Ste.

Comcast NBCUniversal Celebrates Native American Heritage Month

TULALIP, Wash. — Salmon once came to the Spokane people.