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Torivio Fodder, manager of the Indigenous Governance Program, explains the principles that guide successful tribal governance and why the university is a leader at teaching them.

Torivio Fodder, manager of the UArizona Indigenous Governance Program, explains the principles that drive successful tribal governance and why the university is a leader in the teaching of nation building.

Native communities see clean energy as a way to remedy some of the abuses depicted in the new Martin Scorsese film, "Killers of the Flower Moon."

First Nations chiefs and administrators from Ontario west to Alberta told the Standing Committee on Indigenous and Northern Affairs to scrap proposed legislation that would recognize Métis governments in three

Director Martin Scorsese’s new movie, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Based

From the commentary, "But for over a century, rather than making payments to Indian landowners, the government routinely mismanaged those funds, failed to provide a court-ordered accounting of them and systematically destroyed disbursement records."

Friday, director Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” premieres in theaters. It depicts how, following the discovery of oil on their land, members of the Osage tribe in Oklahoma are murdered for their rights to it.

White settlers targeted Osage Nation members to steal their land and the riches beneath it. But this crime is just the tip of the iceberg.

Reprinted from The Conversation

An Osage delegation with President Calvin Coolidge at the White House on Jan. 20, 1924. Bettman via Getty Images Torivio Fodder, University of Arizona Director Martin Scorsese’s new movie, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” tells the true story of a string of murders on the Osage Nation’s land in Oklahoma in the 1920s. Based on […]