• A remote tribe is reeling from widespread illness and cancer. What role did the US government play?

    The family placed flowers by a pair of weathered cowboy boots, as people quietly gathered for the memorial of the soft-spoken tribal chairman who mentored teens in the boxing ring and teased his grandkids on tractor rides. Left unsaid, and what troubled Marvin Cota’s family deep down, was that his story ended like so many others on the remote Duck Valley Indian Reservation. Until recently, a now-razed U.S. maintenance building where fuel and herbicides were stored — and where Cota worked — was thought to be the main culprit.

  • Stagecoach 2025 to feature High Desert native, ‘American Idol’ star Chayce Beckham

    High Desert native and “American Idol” Chayce Beckham will join Jelly Roll, Lana Del Rey, the Backstreet Boys and more at Stagecoach 2025 in Indio.

  • Evidence

    Scientific evidence has to meet all of the tests of ordinary evidence, but in addition it has to pass several standards of scientific reliability. In anthropology, evidence comes in the form of conversations with others. Many times conversations with anthropologists are just not true or are shades of true.

  • The Mirage of Representation: How Canada's Federal Public Service Silences Indigenous Voices in Broader Governance

    The illusion of Indigenous representation in Canada's federal public service is nothing more than a politically engineered mirage. Indigenous voices are not evenly distributed across departments; they are herded into a few select areas like Indigenous Services Canada and Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada, where they make up an outsized portion of employees—28.2% and 17.4%, respectively. Meanwhile, in departments that could benefit from diverse perspectives—such as the Administrative Tribunals Support Service of Canada—Indigenous representation dwindles to as low as 1.9%.

  • Native News Weekly (September 8, 2024): D.C. Briefs

    In addition to articles already covered by Native News Online, here is a roundup of other news released from Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country recently. The? U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the availability of approximately $3.48 million for two, five-year cooperative agreements to build the capacity of Tribal governments to restore land for productive use and healthy communities, reduce waste, prevent environmental contamination and prepare for and respond to environmental emergencies in Indian country.

  • Indigenous fire practitioner sees beyond the destruction from historic Park Fire

    California’s latest wildfire serves as a stark reminder of the regenerative promise of Indigenous cultural burning, practitioners say

  • Historical marker commemorates Native American city of Anhaica

    Next to the tennis courts in Myers Park will soon be the site of a historical marker commemorating the Apalachee city of Anhaica.

  • North Fork tribe breaks ground on casino in Madera County

    MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) – After 20 years in the making, the North Fork Rancheria of Mono Indians of California finally broke ground on their casino in Madera. Hundreds of tribal citizens and community members gathered at the tribes’ federal trust land just north of the City of Madera, along Highway 99. Saturday’s ceremony marks […]

  • Postcards from the Conventions, and Reflections on the Enchanted Life at Home

    Going into 2024’s election-cycle hubs for U.S. political power showed me the enchantment in New Mexico is unmatched. Waiting in lines to get on the floors of the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee and then, a couple of weeks later, at the Democratic one in Chicago, my thoughts kept turning to home, where we’re trying to sort out new ideas and fixes for problems we carry uniquely, but that are still tied to greater issues in the United States. In New Mexico, these are long-standing problems we’ve been patching up incrementally, sometimes going back years before New Mexico was taken over by the United States.

  • Bryan Mercier Will Be Appointed BIA Director

    Bryan Mercier has been named the next director of the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) by Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland. Mercier, a tribal citizen of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon, will be acting BIA director effective September 8, 2024, and will be formally appointed to the position when current BIA Director Darryl LaCounte retires later this year.

  • Pope calls for greater care of indigenous populations in Papua New Guinea

    Pope Francis said the world needs to address climate change while visiting the Pacific Island nation of Papua New Guinea, which is partly endangered by a rising Pacific Ocean.

  • APTN launches channel dedicated to Indigenous languages

    APTN Languages’ fall schedule features 24/7 programming in 18 Indigenous languages.

  • If You've Never Noticed The Logo On A Godiva Wrapper, Today's NYT Connections Groups Will Be Tough

    Welcome to the weekend, puzzlers! And welcome to that long stretch between Labor Day and Thanksgiving, when holidays are few and far between. We’re counting down the weeks to Indigenous Peoples’ Day and, of course, Halloween (if only we got the day off for that one). Speaking of Halloween, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice is in theaters. When you check it out, you can see where it stacks up against the rest of Tim Burton’s filmography.

  • How a viral AI image catapulted a Mexican startup to a major adidas contract

    Antonio Nu?o, Fatima Alvarez, and Enrique Rodriguez have been friends since they were five years old. As teenagers, they became volunteers helping indigenous communities -- first in Mexico, then in other countries -- and saw that many of the women were artisans. The trio came to realize that these artists “made very beautiful things in a very sustainable way,” Nu?o recalls, and by the time they were 25, the idea for a business had germinated.

  • Native Americans continue to fight barriers to voting

    The Indian Citizenship Act of 1924 recognized Native Americans as US citizens, yet for decades after, states blocked Indigenous p eople from voting. Today, experts warn that some states are once again restricting Native Americans’ access to voting and to democracy

  • Ethnic violence in India's Manipur escalates, six killed

    Six people, including one civilian, were killed?as fresh violence broke out between two warring ethnic communities in the northeast Indian state of Manipur on Saturday, authorities said. The majority Meitei community and the tribal Kukis have clashed sporadically since last year after a court ordered the state government to consider extending special economic benefits and quotas in government jobs and education enjoyed by the Kukis to the Meiteis as well. "Fighting has been going on between armed groups of both the communities since the morning," said Krishna Kumar, deputy commissioner of the state's Jiribam district where the clash occurred.

  • President Biden Appoints Janie Simms Hipp to Community Development Advisory Board

    President Joe Biden on Friday appointed?Janie?Hipp (Chickasaw) to be a member?of the Community Development Advisory Board within the U.S. Department of Treasury. The Community Development Advisory Board serves to advise the Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFI) Fund. The Community Development Advisory Board’s mission is to promote access to capital to underserved communities.

  • Gun Lake Tribe Releases Lake Sturgeon into Kalamazoo River for 2024 Nmé Celebration

    The Match-e-be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe) on Friday held its annual sturgeon release into the Kalamazoo River. The sturgeon eggs were collected in April by the Tribe’s Environmental Department using mats placed in the Kalamazoo River. Along with the 160 hatchlings, five larger sturgeon from the 2023 release, which had been living in a tank at the Gun Lake Tribal Government office, were also released with trackers to allow environmentalists to monitor their movements.

  • Toronto festival features unprecedented number of Indigenous films

    The international festival features 15 Indigenous films, documentaries and series

  • Woman missing out of Snohomish County, MIPA activated

    The Washington State Patrol has activated a Missing Indigenous Person Alert for a woman last seen in Snohomish County.

  • Chief Executive Officer, Ponca Health Services

    Position: Chief Executive Officer, Ponca Health Services Position #: 1101 Division: Health Department: Tribal Health Administration Reports to: Tribal Council Location: Lincoln, Norfolk or Omaha Exempt/Non-Exempt: Exempt ...

  • Biden administration takes step toward Indigenous-proposed marine sanctuary off California coast

    The Biden administration has taken the penultimate step in designating a new marine sanctuary off California’s coast. The proposed Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary would recognize the Indigenous Chumash people’s connection to the region. Originally proposed by Fred Collins, the leader of the Northern Chumash Tribal Council, the site would be the first Indigenous-proposed national…

  • Diana Hellson Named TD Indigenous Songwriter of the Year

    The SOCAN Foundation, which fosters, sustains, and promotes the creation of Canadian music, recently announced that Mamarudegyal MTHC, also known as Diana Hellson, has been named the recipient of this year’s TD Indigenous Songwriter Award. Hellson, an Afro-Indigenous artist from Siksiká Nation on Treaty No. 7 Territory in Alberta, Canada, is being recognized for her contributions to the music industry as a dynamic voice in Hip Hop and R&B. Since releasing her debut EP MRG in 2016, Hellson has gained recognition, including two Fraser Valley Music Awards for Best Hip Hop (Female) and Queer Excellence in Music.

  • The Wrap: Cherokee Nation to continue issuing tribal car tags

    Indigenous headlines for Friday, Sept. 6, 2024

  • Enbridge agrees to redo key permit for Line 5 tunnel project

    Earlier this week, Enbridge agreed it would not act on a 2021 permit from the Department of Environment, Great Lakes and Energy (EGLE), which is one of three permits the Canadian pipeline company needs to move forward with its controversial Line 5 tunnel project. Michigan’s Tribal Nations and environmental advocates have repeatedly raised concerns about […]