(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 […]
(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 […]
