Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and Oglala Sioux Tribe’s COVID-19 checkpoints are at stake.
Indigenous Affairs
The state of Alaska sues the Federal Subsistence Board for approving an emergency hunt for the Organized Village of Kake, despite the tribal community’s dire food shortage.
In the COVID-19 era, tribal nations want research in service of their people.
Buffalo were originally decimated to starve Indigenous peoples; now, their absence is starving out the land.
The ecological and ethical problems of ‘smudging.’
Indigenous people are frequently undercounted, undermining political power and representation.
The proposal comes after a failed consultation process of ‘one way communication’ over the Tongass National Forest.
Across the globe, anti-Indigenous organizations and sympathizers work to undermine the collective rights of Indigenous peoples.
In a time of crisis, communities come together to engineer their own response.
A new book explains barriers at the ballot box.
‘The United States had no idea what was going on in Indian Country. They have no idea.’
Contact-tracing programs in two areas hit hardest by COVID-19 are working.
A new book looks at a ‘third way’ for Indian law.
A Santa Fe-based contemporary dance company makes reciprocity and community-building part of its performances.
There are at least 16 land-grant universities making money from the expropriated Indigenous lands they retained from the Morrill Act.
Families fight for multicultural, bilingual and educational equity in the face of governmental evasion.
Colonial laws and federal neglect created a worse-case scenario during a global pandemic.
President Trump proved monument designations can be easy to remove; a new piece of legislation seeks to change that.
Half of Oklahoma is set to become tribal reservations, but what does that mean for crimes committed on those lands?
Federal law is woefully incomplete and ineffective when it comes to protecting Indigenous lands from looting.
How a sacred object from the Pueblo of Acoma turned up at a Paris auction house, and how the tribe fought for its return.
The land-grant university hopes to recruit more Indigenous students.
Decades later, the standoff between Mohawk activists and police shows a stark comparison in militarization.
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