(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-november-6-2025/) Some tribal leaders are supporting a proposed bill that could expand sports betting in Wisconsin, as Chuck Quirmbach reports. About three dozen states allow some form of sports betting, but in Wisconsin, the only legal way to place a wager on a sporting event is at some tribal casinos. […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/friday-november-7-2025/) Photo: Challistia Colelay, who went by “Tia,” was a 16-year-old Apache teen and went missing on October 16, 2025. (Courtesy Lula Mae Colelay / Instagram) The mother of an Apache 16-year-old who’s been missing since last month says her child’s remains were discovered by tribal and federal police earlier […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-november-13-2025/) Photo: Liz West / Flickr A new study aims to shed light on the hidden impacts of domestic violence in Native communities. The Mountain West News Bureau’s Daniel Spaulding (https://www.boisestatepublicradio.org/people/daniel-spaulding) reports on the effort to understand the unrecognized brain injuries many survivors are living with. The Urban Indian Health […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/friday-november-14-2025/) Photo: Construction is underway for a 22-unit housing project on the Fallon Paiute-Shoshone reservation, the first housing project on the reservation in over 20 years, on Monday, September. 15, 2025, in Fallon, Nev. (Jimmy Romo / Nevada Public Radio) Housing isn’t just a problem in major cities in Nevada. […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/monday-november-17-2025/) A Native American woman and her family are thankful that she’s not been detained – and potentially deported – by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Brian Bull (https://www.buffalosfire.com/author/brian-bull) of Buffalo’s Fire has the story. On Veteran’s Day, 24-year-old Leticia Jacobo completed a short sentence at the Polk County Jail […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/wednesday-july-30-2025/) It’s been an up and down week for former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo). On the up side, Sec. Haaland has been deemed the 2025 recipient of the Chief Standing Bear Prize for Courage. The Nebraska Examiner reports that Haaland – the first Native person to serve as […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-july-31-2025/) The Gila River Indian Community south of Phoenix, Ariz. has been grappling with guns and gang violence, largely involving juveniles. The tribe quietly fired its police chief earlier this month, days after a town hall meeting to address the issues. As KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio (https://www.kjzz.org/people/gabriel-pietrorazio) reports, the tribe has […]
(https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/friday-august-1-2025-indigenous-economic-opportunities-and-threats-in-the-arctic/) Traditional culture meets global international economic development at the Bering Straits Native Corporation. The collection of tribes plays a key role in the Port of Nome that is working to develop the nation’s first deepwater port in the Arctic. It is among the big — and small — economic […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/monday-august-4-2025/) A lack of reliable infrastructure is tied to worse health and economic outcomes for kids in rural Alaska. That’s according to panelists at the final day of Arctic Encounter, a symposium that just wrapped up in Anchorage, Alaska last week. Francine Moreno of Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium says […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/wednesday-august-6-2025/) Photo: A sign welcomes travelers to the Navajo Nation on July 13, 2021. (Katherine Davis-Young / KJZZ) A pair of rural counties in eastern Arizona could soon start seeing significant investments in fiber and broadband networks. The funding is part of a multi-state settlement with two national telecommunications companies. […]
