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Former Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara E. Hill was nominated on Wednesday  to become a federal district judge for the Northern District of Oklahoma. If confirmed, Hill would be the fourth active Native American federal district court judge in the country, the seventh in the history of the federal judiciary, and the first Native American woman federal judge in the state of Oklahoma.

On Oct. 18, President Joe Biden nominated former Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara Hill to serve as a federal judge in Oklahoma.

The professor and leader leaves a legacy in Indigenous advocacy.

The 53rd annual United Tribes Technical College International Powwow begins Friday, with other events including a Tribal Leader Summit starting Tuesday.

Farmington High School alum John Echohawk has received the Thurgood Marshall Award for his work as a lifelong champion of civil and human rights.

Kansas Democrat and the state’s House minority policy chair Christina Haswood (Diné), has been chosen as an emerging changemaker for the first iteration of the Obama Foundation’s Leaders USA program. 

John Echohawk helped found the Native American Rights Fund, which is headquartered in Boulder.

John Echohawk, founder of the Native American Rights Fund in Boulder, will receive a national civil rights award. Then, a "Great American Recipe" chef rethinks the Noodle Kugel. Also, should fixed anchors be allowed in national parks? And remembering music pioneer Max Morath.

On June 8, Indian Country loudly applauded the 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Brackeen v. Haaland that upheld the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Then last Thursday happened. The Supreme Court — the same one that seemed to exhibit a basic understanding of tribal sovereignty in the Brackeen ruling — showed how little the high court justices know (or care) about our rights as sovereign nations in their ruling in Arizona, et al. v. Navajo Nation.

On Thursday, June 8, Indian Country loudly applauded the 7-2 U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in the Brackeen v. Haaland that upheld the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act. The Supreme Court — the same one that seemed to exhibit a basic understanding of tribal sovereignty in the Brackeen ruling — showed how little the high court justices know (or care) about our rights as sovereign nations in their ruling in Arizona, et al. v. Navajo Nation. The 5-4 ruling agains...