(https://www.nativenews.net/monday-august-25-2025/) Photo: This street sign was defaced in 2021 in County Tyrone, Ireland. (Courtesy Cllr. Barry Monteith / Facebook) A number of streets signs in Northern Ireland which include the island’s Indigenous language have been damaged throughout the summer. And now police are investigating the incidents as “hate crimes,” as […]
(https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/monday-august-25-2025-tribal-concerns-help-derail-fast-track-for-alligator-alcatraz/) Miccosukee Tribe of Florida scored at least a temporary legal victory when a federal judge halted construction (https://ictnews.org/news/light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-injunction-a-win-for-miccosukee-against-alligator-alcatraz/) and ordered parts of the facility dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” removed. The decision comes in the lawsuit by the tribe and environmental groups claiming work on the abandoned airport turned emergency immigrant […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/tuesday-august-26-2025/) In what the South Dakota Attorney General calls the end of a three-decade legal saga, courts have upheld the extradition of John Graham. Graham was convicted of the 1975 murder of Annie Mae Aquash. South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s C.J. Keene (https://www.sdpb.org/people/c-j-keene) has more. Annie Mae Aquash was an American […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/friday-august-29-2025/) (Photo courtesy Manitoba Keewatinowi Okimakanak / Facebook) Audio availble by 12:00 p.m. EDT A tearful and emotional reunion took place recently in Manitoba. As Dan Karpenchuk (https://ca.linkedin.com/in/dan-karpenchuk-4591733b) reports, a Sixties Scoop survivor was reunited with his Indigenous family after 50 years. Jonathan Hooker was taken from his family in […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/wednesday-september-3-2025/) The case had the potential to overturn decades of hard-fought legal battles to protect traditional fishing rights in rural Alaska, but in the end, the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals sided with the federal government in its lawsuit against the state to protect those rights. As KNBA’s Rhonda […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-september-4-2025/) Photo: Attorneys for the Bad River tribe present their case as part of a challenge to key permits for Enbridge’s Line 5 relocation project at a hearing in Ashland, Wisc. on August 12, 2025. (Danielle Kaeding / WPR) A case is ongoing in Wisconsin over a legal challenge to […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/friday-september-5-2025/) Photo: The Ashland, Wisc. BIA office was targeted by DOGE for closure. (Courtesy Google) Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) offices in Wisconsin and Minnesota remain open after the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) targeted them for termination. As Danielle Kaeding (https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-kaeding-4246a71b) reports, the initiative formerly led by billionaire Elon […]
(https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/friday-september-5-2025-remembering-graham-greene/) Oneida actor Graham Greene said learning the Lakota language for his celebrated role as Kicking Bird was among his greatest challenges (https://www.televisionacademy.com/features/news/features/graham-greenes-credit-score) . Over the span of nearly five decades, Greene worked in nearly 200 television shows and films where he earned the admiration of audiences and his fellow […]
(https://www.nativenews.net/monday-september-8-2025/) In rural Alaska, there are a growing number of cases involving young teens in small, remote Indigenous communities, who are sexually exploited online. As KNBA’s Rhonda McBride (https://www.knba.org/people/rhonda-mcbride) tells us, FBI investigators want to be sure Robert Segevan from the North Slope didn’t have any other alleged victims, after […]
(https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/monday-september-8-2025-finding-effective-suicide-prevention-as-federal-support-fades/) Suicide numbers are lower in places with higher incomes, better access to broadband internet, and good health insurance coverage (https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/73/wr/mm7337e1.htm) . Unfortunately, those are all factors that are statistically lacking for many Native Americans and Alaska Natives. Development of the nationwide 988 Suicide and Lifeline has improved the persistently […]
