(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 […]
(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 […]
