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Indian Country is making another push to restore tribal jurisdiction over non-Indians who commit violence in their communities.

It’s unclear whether Congress will act on voting rights before it recesses for the holidays

For National Native American Heritage Month, this column will feature Indigenous inhabitants of the Colorado Plateau, celebrating and learning from their knowledge and perspectives. This week, we speak with Talia

<p><span>I would like to join Esther George in expressing my appreciation to the leaders of tribal nations assembled here for this opportunity to listen and learn from this afternoons conversation. I also want to thank Governor Anoatubby for hosting us.</span><span> I am humbled to be here at the First Americans Museum, which is promoting a richer understanding of Native American history by sharing the cultural diversity, history, and resilience of the 39 Native ...

The National Archives holds hundreds of thousands of U.S. Government records relating to Native Americans, from as early as 1774 through the mid-1990s. These include every treaty signed with Native Americans, records from the Indian Schools, Indian Census Rolls, and Bureau of Indian Affairs records. Indigenous Digital Archive’s Treaties Portal NARA collaborated with the Museum

Nine months ago, Abdón was one of 40 Indigenous people from the Peruvian municipality of Flor de Ucayali who traveled, for the last time, to the border between his community and the village of Santa Sofía. This area, located in the northeastern section of Flor de Ucayali, is reportedly now a violent enclave of drug […]

To understand why it’s important to support healing-focused approaches to structural racism, philanthropy should take time to learn the horrible history of government-sanctioned boarding schools designed to obliterate Indigenous cultures.

“A healthy food system is an indicator of a healthy community; one cannot exist without the other,” noted the Native Hawaiian activist Kamuela Enos.

Evening briefs in Indian Country Headlines from May 26, 2021 Author: May 26, 2021 Ivalu Blanchett decided not to attend the West High School graduation after she was told she couldnt wear her Greenlandic shawl over her gown. Instead, she had a private graduation ceremony in her yard. Photographed on May 12, 2021. (Marc Lester / Anchorage Daily News) Headlines from May 26, 2021 Happy Wednesday! We are inching closer and closer to the holiday weekend. Here’s a look at what’s happening today: ...

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is taking another look at the ways in which COVID-19 has impacted Native communities.