Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One app.

Get all your news in one place.

100’s of premium titles. One news app.

The Latest Breaking News from Native American

Navajo Nation imposes stricter tribal law on transporting uranium across its land

The Navajo Nation has approved emergency legislation meant to strengthen a tribal law that regulates transportation of radioactive material across the largest Native American reservation in the US

The Independent UK

Senators demand the USDA fix its backlog of food distribution to Native American tribes

A bipartisan group of senators is expressing concern over the USDA's decision to use a single contractor to distribute food to Indian Reservations

The Independent UK

Netflix Adds Critically Acclaimed Native American Drama 'Dark Winds'

Discover 'Dark Winds,' a top-rated Native American drama on Netflix, praised for its storytelling and performances. Starring Zahn McClarnon, the series off...

Top News

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

MIT's first freshman class since the Supreme Court’s affirmative-action ban is unmistakably less diverse

Around 17% of students in the class of 2028 are Black, Hispanic, Native American or Pacific Islander, a 15% dropoff from recent years.

Fortune

Judge blocks Arizona lithium drilling that tribe says is threat to sacred lands

A federal judge has temporarily blocked exploratory drilling for a lithium project in Arizona that Native American leaders say will harm land they’ve used for religious and cultural ceremonies for centuries

The Independent UK

GOPer downplays killings of Natives

Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson, who claims indigenous descent, attacked the "ludicrous" idea of settler killings

Salon

Offensive names dot the American street map − a new app provides a way to track them

The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston, South Carolina, in 2015, when a white supremacist murdered nine Black worshippers, and the deadly white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, two years later compelled Americans to confront the role played by memorials, monuments and other symbols in glorifying racist ideologies.

The Conversation

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Native American author Tommy Orange selected as the next Future Library writer

The Pulitzer prize-shortlisted novelist behind books including There There and Wandering Stars will pen a manuscript that won’t be published until 2114

The Guardian - UK

A win for the Harris-Walz ticket would also mean the country's first Native American female governor

If Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz officially steps down later this year to accept the position of U.S. vice president, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan would become the first Native woman to govern a state

The Independent UK

Kamala Harris and Tim Walz could clear path for first-ever Native American woman governor

Minnesota’s Peggy Flanagan could be the nation’s first Indigenous woman in a governor’s office

The Independent UK

Trump’s comments saying Native Americans ‘don’t look like Indians’ resurface after remarks about Harris’ heritage

Trump claimed that many Native American casino owners ‘don’t look like Indians’ in a 1993 congressional hearing

The Independent UK

Abuse investigation finds almost 1,000 Native American children died in US boarding schools

The schools gave Native American kids English names and forced them to perform manual labor

The Independent UK

Three British novelists make Booker 2024 longlist among ‘cohort of global voices’

Hisham Matar, Sarah Perry and Samantha Harvey in running for prize, along with the first Native American and Dutch authors ever to be nominated

The Guardian - UK

Museums closed Native American exhibits 6 months ago. Tribes are still waiting to get items back

Native American artifacts have remained out of public view but still very much in the hands of some of the nation’s largest museums some six months after institutions closed and covered exhibits in response to new federal regulations

The Independent UK

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Conversation

US citizenship was forced on Native Americans 100 years ago − its promise remains elusive

The 100th anniversary of the Indian Citizenship Act has garnered little fanfare. Only a handful of news articles and events have commemorated the centennial of the law giving U.S. citizenship to Native Americans.

The Independent UK

Safeguarding the heartbeat: Native Americans in Upper Midwest protect their drumming tradition

When a small-town Minnesota high school banned its Native American drum group from performing at graduation, the hurt reverberated across Indigenous communities in the Upper Midwest

Top News

Washington State Climate Law Funds Native American Climate Projects

Governor Inslee allocates million from the Climate Commitment Act to assist Native American tribes in climate change adaptation efforts, including relo...

The Independent UK

Money from Washington's landmark climate law will help tribes face rising seas, climate change

Tens of millions of dollars raised by a landmark climate law in Washington state will go to Native American tribes that are at risk from climate change and rising sea levels to help them move to higher ground, install solar panels, buy electric vehicles and restore wetlands

Get all your
news in one place.

100’s of premium titles.
One news app.

The Guardian - UK

Bizhiki: Unbound review – commanding Native American songcraft

Powwow singing from Joe Rainey and Dylan Bizhikiins Jennings blends with electronic production on a spirited album that reframes a rich cultural tradition

The Independent UK

North Dakota tribe goes back to its roots with a massive greenhouse operation

A Native American tribe in North Dakota is planning a sprawling greenhouse complex on its reservation

Roll Call

Capitol Lens | Folk it up - Roll Call

Army veteran Lori Archiquette and members of Native American Women Warriors participate in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on Monday.

The Guardian - US

Netflix’s Ancient Apocalypse scraps US filming plans after outcry from Native American groups

Hit show’s British host Graham Hancock has been criticized for promoting fringe beliefs about advanced lost civilization

The Guardian - UK

Fancy Dance review – Lily Gladstone is sublime in moving Native American family drama

Erica Tremblay’s debut feature boasts another remarkable performance from the Killers of the Flower Moon star as a tough outsider on a road trip with her teenage niece

The Independent UK

Mystery grows after rare white buffalo sacred to Native Americans has not been seen for weeks after birth

Whether the calf – named Wakan Gli, which means “Return Sacred” in Lakota – is still alive is unknown

The Conversation

Brats, dragons and supermodels – what to see and listen to this week

In 2022, it was estimated that more than 4,200 cases of missing or murdered Indigenous women remained unsolved in the US. To make a film that explores this injustice with dignity and authenticity is no mean feat. To make a film that does so, and still has the joy of…

1 2 3 4 5

People

From analysis to the latest developments in health,
read the most diverse news in one place.

Organisations

National Association of Black Journalists

11 stories

Read news from The Economist, FT, and more,
with one subscription

Topics

Places

Fourteen days free

Download the app

One app. One membership.
100+ trusted global sources.