Native American News
March 1, 2021
KALISPELL — A Flathead Reservation artist is telling the stories of Native American women through her own artwork on exhibit at Kalispell’s KALICO Art Center. We talked with Monica Gilles-Brings Yellow about her collection of painting...
Native American News
March 1, 2021
WASHINGTON — Five Native American tribes in Utah were awarded over $4 million for affordable housing activities Friday. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development announced the awards totaling $652 million to nearly 600 tribes and villages in th...
Native American News
March 1, 2021
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - It’s been 48 years since the South Dakota Wounded Knee Occupation. To honor the past, Native American activists gathered near a battlefield site threatened by a proposed development in Micanopy. Members of Florida Indigenous rig...
Native American News
March 1, 2021
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — For Native Americans, Deb Haaland is more than an elected official on track to become the first Indigenous secretary of the Interior Department. She is a sister, an auntie and a fierce pueblo woman whose political stances have been...
Native American News
March 1, 2021
An author who specializes in unearthing forgotten figures argues for the importance of Charlie Hill, the first Indigenous comic to appear on “The Tonight Show.” To the extent Will Rogers is known today, it’s as the folksy founding father of to...
Cherokee Nation News
February 22, 2021
For the first time, the Cherokee Nation is asking Jeep to change the name of its Cherokee and Grand Cherokee vehicles. “I’m sure this comes from a place that is well-intended, but it does not honor us by having our name plastered on the side of a ca...
Cherokee Nation News
February 22, 2021
TAHLEQUAH – After Sequoyah invented the Cherokee syllabary in the early 1800s, his written language was used primarily for Christian instruction, but tribal leaders saw the syllabary could also be used to inform Cherokee people via a newspaper. “To ...
Cherokee Nation News
February 22, 2021
TAHLEQUAH – The Cherokee Nation’s attorney general has resurrected a years-old Supreme Court case in hopes of having removed a “by blood” reference in the Constitution, a move she says would bring closure to “the long and difficult...
Native American News
February 22, 2021
Tribes across the US are buying back land lost during and after the colonization period on the open market More than six decades after a 1,705-acre patchwork of meadows, wetlands and timberland in southern Oregon was taken from the Klamath Tribes, the Native Am...
Native American News
February 22, 2021
FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Deb Haaland stood with fellow tribal members protesting an oil pipeline outside a reservation in North Dakota, advocated for protecting cultural landmarks in her home state of New Mexico and pointedly told government witnesses in a...
Native American News
February 22, 2021
When Joey Clift was growing up, he adored comedy but assumed it was a world in which he’d never be welcomed, because he rarely saw Native American communities like his own represented onscreen. Thankfully — and partially due to receiv...
Native American News
February 22, 2021
Legalization of marijuana in South Dakota could provide a new, lucrative economic-development opportunity for Native American tribes and tribal members who have historically struggled to find prosperity and stability in the state economy. Voter-approved measure...
