Native American News
March 23, 2021
About 8500 years ago, hunter-gatherers living beside Eagle Lake in Wisconsin hammered out a conical, 10-centimeter-long projectile point made of pure copper. The finely crafted point, used to hunt big game, highlights a New World technological triumph—and...
Native American News
March 23, 2021
By the time the Seminole Nation in Oklahoma began distributing vaccines to tribal members, LeEtta Osborne-Sampson had already witnessed nearly two dozen members of her extended family die of COVID-19. She was relieved vaccine doses had finally arrived to p...
Native American News
March 23, 2021
SAN FRANCISCO – The National AIDS Memorial launched a Virtual Quilt Exhibition to raise greater awareness about rising HIV diagnosis rates in Native American and Hawaiian communities. The kick-off event was held at the National AIDS Memorial Grove which i...
Native American News
March 9, 2021
We are hiring two summer interns to join our team (Affiliate EDIB) at the ACLU! The positions are paid, remote, and open to undergrad or graduate students. Interns will be involved in strategic conversations relevant to equity, diversity, inclusion, and belongi...
Cherokee Nation News
March 1, 2021
TAHLEQUAH – The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court unanimously ruled on Feb. 22 that the language “by blood” is void, and should be removed from the tribe’s laws, including provisions within the Constitution. The decision was in respons...
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 ...
