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(https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/wednesday-september-17-2025-free-speech-and-social-media-collide/) In life, Charlie Kirk espoused controversial opinions that many people consider repugnant. His violent and public death is now becoming a test for what other public figures—and ordinary citizens—are able to say without severe consequences. Dozens of people, including a Washington Post columnist (https://karenattiah.substack.com/p/the-washington-post-fired-me-but?triedRedirect=true) and a U.S. Army colonel, […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-september-18-2025/) Photo: Salmon being pulled from a gillnet in June 2025. (Terese Vicente / KRITFC) The State of Alaska wants the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether rural residents – which includes many Alaska Native people – should maintain subsistence fishing preference in the waterways of federal lands. KYUK’s Sage […]

The Northern Arapaho Reentry program is helping people return home from out of state federal prisons and state incarceration to the Wind River Reservation in Wyoming. The program is voluntary and open to tribal citizens enrolled in one of the two tribes of the Wind River Reservation, the Northern Arapaho […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/tuesday-september-23-2025/) Photo: This sign marks one of more than a hundred abandoned uranium mines in Cameron on the Navajo Nation. (Gabriel Pietrorazio / KJZZ) The Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) was recently renewed. It provides compensation for uranium miners and people exposed to Cold War-era nuclear testing. In what could […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/monday-september-22-2025/) The U.S. Department of Education announced last week a nearly half-billion dollar investment that will, in part, help to fund tribal colleges and universities (TCUs). As KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio (https://www.kjzz.org/people/gabriel-pietrorazio) reports, it comes months after the White House proposed cuts that could’ve caused some schools to close. Navajo Nation […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-september-25-2025/) A resource guide to help small and medium-sized governments in the Great Lakes region adapt to climate change has been published. Chuck Quirmbach reports that some tribal communities in the area are already trying to reduce problems caused by higher temperatures and additional flooding. The guide is from the International […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/friday-october-3-2025/) Photo courtesy Iñupiat Community of the Arctic Slope / Facebook A tribe on Alaska’s North Slope hosted an emergency management course in Utqiagvik last week. Organizers say it’s the first for a tribe in Alaska and part of an effort to bolster coordination between communities in the Arctic during […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/friday-october-10-2025/) The federal government shutdown is in its second week. Tribal leaders across the country are continuing to raise concerns saying Indian Country will bear the burden. Matt Laslo (https://www.mattlaslo.com/) has more from Washington. No one knows the full extent of how this federal government shutdown will hit Indian Country, […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/tuesday-september-30-2025/) It’s National Truth and Reconciliation Day, also known as Orange Shirt Day. The annual event is dedicated to honoring the survivors and children lost in Canada’s residential school system, and to recognize the abuses and effects of that system. As Dan Karpenchuk (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/dan-karpenchuk-4591733b) reports, on the eve of Orange […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-october-9-2025/) President Donald Trump’s Navajo pick for Assistant Secretary of the Interior was officially confirmed Tuesday during Day 7 of the federal government shutdown. KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio (https://www.kjzz.org/people/gabriel-pietrorazio) has more. Senate Republicans confirmed William Kirkland (Navajo) among more than 100 Trump nominees along party lines – while Democrats, including U.S. […]