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(https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/wednesday-september-10-2025-dwindling-water-adds-pressure-for-including-tribal-voices-in-future-colorado-river-water-plans/) Tribes are seeking to flex whatever legal muscle they have to secure Colorado River water protections, just as forecasts show the resource to continue to disappear (https://www.usbr.gov/lc/region/g4000/riverops/crmms-2year-projections.html) in the foreseeable future. The tribes are hoping to gain whatever leverage they can as policymakers negotiate new water plans. More than […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-september-11-2025/) (Photo: Brian Bull) During World War II, at least 100,000 Japanese Americans were forced into so-called internment, or concentration, camps across the U.S. Seen by the government as a potential threat within America’s borders, memories of the mass incarceration still burns hot for former prisoners and their families. Senior […]

(https://www.nativenews.net/wednesday-september-17-2025/) Photo: Robert Redford advocating against the demolition of Santa Monica Pier while filming “The Sting” on the pier. (Ken Dare / Los Angeles Times / UCLA) Hollywood legend Robert Redford has died at the age of 89. The longtime actor, producer, and activist passed away Tuesday in his Utah […]

(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 […]