5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (171+ words) A tribe in Maine makes its second land acquisition this year. The Mi’kmaq Nation has added 83 acres to its land base on its northernmost reservation in Maine. The land is adjacent to a community center and tribal housing where 48 residents…...

5+ day, 15+ hour ago   (436+ words) Native women dressed in jingle dresses and men in their regalia from the Three Fires Confederacy were among about 1,000 Native Americans and 33,000 non-Natives who walked the Mackinac Bridge on Labor Day. The walk across the Mackinac Bridge, which connects Michigan’s…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (382+ words) Tribes in New Mexico are at the heart of an executive order issued on Friday that bans new uranium mine leases on millions of acres of state trust land. Stephanie Garcia Richard issued the decree from her elected post as…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (287+ words) The Three Fires Confederacy is calling on Native Americans and allies to participate in a Labor Day water walk across the Mackinac Bridge to raise awareness about protecting the Great Lakes and shutting down Enbridge Line 5. The Three Fires Confederacy…...

2+ week, 6+ hour ago   (318+ words) The piece examines the idea of an “ecological utopia”—the belief that humans can create a more harmonious relationship with nature—and argues that efforts to engineer such an ideal environment can produce unintended and sometimes destructive consequences. Also in…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (252+ words) Masked agents from the United States Border Patrol had an early morning arrival on Aug. 25 to impose increased security measures in Tohono O’Odham Nation at a 62-mile border wall construction project through the tribe’s land in southern Arizona, according to…...

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (506+ words) A new Brookings Metro and American Indian College Fund report examines decades of underinvestment in Indian Country, the impact of recent federal funding cuts, and what federal policymakers and philanthropy can do to create more sustainable investment in tribal nations....

3+ week, 4+ day ago   (781+ words) A federal district court has ruled that the U.S. Department of the Interior violated several federal laws when it approved a land exchange intended to clear the way for a road through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge and Wilderness in southwest…...