(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-august-7-2025/) Photo courtesy Gila River Police Department / Facebook Members of the Gila River Indian Community in Arizona recently revealed that the tribe’s police chief was fired following a July town hall meeting to address violent crime across the nearly 600-square-mile reservation south of Phoenix, Ariz. While leaders would not […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/friday-august-8-2025/) This week, the nonprofit Native American Rights Fund hosted its biennial tribal water symposium in partnership with the Western States Water Council. As KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio (https://www.kjzz.org/people/gabriel-pietrorazio) reports, Interior Department (DOI) officials took time to reassure tribes that the Trump administration is behind them – despite recent staffing cuts […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/monday-august-11-2025/) U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. says he wants to improve Indigenous peoples’ access to traditional foods. Patrick Gilchrist (https://fm.kuac.org/people/patrick-gilchrist) has more. Standing outside a tribal health center in Fairbanks, Alaska, Sec. Kennedy told reporters last week he’s collecting ideas, but isn’t exactly sure how […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/tuesday-august-12-2025/) Photo: Kettle River. (AndrewEnns / Wikimedia (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0) ) Colville Tribal officials are hailing the discovery of a Chinook salmon in British Columbia’s Kettle River as another sign of success of their salmon reintroduction program. Spokane Public Radio’s Steve Jackson (https://www.linkedin.com/in/steve-jackson-a804581a) reports. It has been decades since a Chinook was […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/wednesday-august-13-2025/) Photo: Shishmaref, Alaska, which will receive some of the EPA clean-up funds for tar. (Courtesy Dennis Davis) It’s been more than 50 years since Alaska’s Native corporations and villages received land from the federal government under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act (ANCSA). Some of those lands were contaminated […]
(https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/thursday-august-14-2025-getting-at-the-truth-indigenous-journalists-unique-role-in-reporting/) News consumers have a constant stream of information at their fingertips, but how reliable is it and how do people check the facts? Indigenous journalists are a means to bring balanced viewpoints to newsrooms that typically have limited interaction with Indigenous populations. As the annual gathering of the Indigenous […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/friday-august-15-2025/) The 42nd annual Indigenous Journalists Association (IJA) conference wraps up Friday in Albuquerque, N.M. Buffalo’s Fire senior reporter Brian Bull (https://www.buffalosfire.com/author/brian-bull) was there. Nearly 400 reporters, editors, and influencers assembled at the Isleta Resort and Casino this week. Congress’ rescission and its effects on tribal radio stations were one […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/monday-august-18-2025/) Photo: Knight Hall at the University of Wyoming in Laramie, Wyo. (Kamila Kudelska / Wyoming Public Media) Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho students will have a crack at a new scholarship at the University of Wyoming (UW). Wyoming Public Radio’s Hannah Habermann (https://www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/people/hannah-habermann) has more. UW is creating the […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/wednesday-august-20-2025/) Photo: Kometos employees atop a new reindeer processing facility in Savoonga. (Wali Rana / KNOM) On St. Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea, the remote village of Savoonga has long struggled with limited jobs and food security. A new reindeer processing facility hopes to help change that. KNOM’s Wali Rana (https://knom.org/team-member/wali-rana/) […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-august-21-2025/) California’s only Native American state lawmaker is calling on the University of California (UC) to return Native American remains and cultural items still in its possession, despite federal and state laws requiring repatriation. Christina Aanestad (https://www.linkedin.com/in/caanestad) reports. California lawmakers condemned the University of California campuses that have failed to […]
