(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. […]
(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 […]
