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Army veteran Bridget McNutt recently moved into Warriors’ Way with her 15-year-old daughter and her 3.5-pound service dog, a Yorkshire Terrier named Annabell.

Lumbee tribe is on a home-building spree in a region that desperately needs housing

Tribe set to receive an additional $4 million in federal money to construct affordable homes

By Border Belt Independent

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Court: BIA owes damages for officer impregnating woman

‘It’s starting our healing process’: Navajo family of murdered woman seeks justice

Archives to return Native American remains, burial objects

‘Sometimes we hear the voices of children playing there’

The Wrap: Indigenous history, art, entertainment and primaries

What’s at stake as new election laws go to trial

Winners, losers in water cuts for Western states

Scientists scramble to explain why Alaska wild salmon stocks are low

Alaska Native takes lead in US Congressional race over Sarah Palin

Voter engagement through skating

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Indian Market turns 100

Coming up, Indian Market turns 100 this weekend! It is Santa Fe’s largest Native art show — and it’s also so much more: movies, fashion shows and thought leaders. We’re previewing the upcoming event

By ICT
Army veteran Bridget McNutt recently moved into Warriors’ Way with her 15-year-old daughter and her 3.5-pound service dog, a Yorkshire Terrier named Annabell.
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Lumbee tribe is on a home-building spree in a region that desperately needs housing

Tribe set to receive an additional $4 million in federal money to construct affordable homes

By Border Belt Independent
SWAIA - Santa Fe Indian Market Facebook Page
Newscasts

Indian Market turns 100

Coming up, Indian Market turns 100 this weekend! It is Santa Fe’s largest Native art show — and it’s also so much more: movies, fashion shows and thought leaders. We’re previewing the upcoming event

By ICT

Newscasts

Adam Hollier, Pauly Denetclaw,ICT Newscast August 3rd, 2022

Native candidates advance in primaries

Pictured: A screenshot for the action-thriller 'Prey' trailer from 20th Century Studios.

New film features Comanche language

Paulina Alexis, Reservation Dog's Season two Premiere Tulsa, Oklahoma, River Spirt Casino. July 29th, 2022 ( Photo Credit: Kaitlin Onawa Boysel)

Meet Willie Jack

Tim Giago in the Native Sun News Today office in Rapid City, South Dakota, in July 2021. (Photo by Shirley Sneve)

Honoring traditions to remember

Juristac is described as the heart of Amah Mutsun culture. It is a sacred place to the tribal nation located near the Bay Area in California. It’s under threat of being destroyed to build an open-pit sand and gravel mine. Amah Mutsun chairman Valentin Lopez tells us more.

Sacred site under attack

Native Vote

Democrat Mary Peltola smiles at supporters after delivering remarks at a fundraiser on Aug. 12, 2022, in Juneau, Alaska. Peltola is in two races on the Aug. 16, 2022, ballot in Alaska. One is the U.S. House special election, a ranked choice election in which she is competing against Republicans Sarah Palin and Nick Begich. The winner of that race will serve the remainder of the late U.S. Rep. Don Young's term, which ends early next year. The other race she is in is the U.S. House primary. (AP Photo/Becky Bohrer)

Alaska Native takes lead in US Congressional race over Sarah Palin

Trump-backed Alaskan candidates take second place #NativeVote22

By Joaqlin Estus

Must Reads

Hawaii Senator Brian Schatz at his first hearing of the U.S. Senate Indian Affairs Committee as chairman on February 24, 2021 in Washington, D.C.

Schatz releases resource guide on largest investment in climate adaptation, clean energy for Native communities in history

By Press Pool
Pictured: A child's eye exam — an ophthalmologist examining a patient's eye with an ophthalmoscope.

Don’t overlook vision screenings during back-to-school season

By Press Pool
Pictured: Navajo Nation Newcomb Fire Department.

Navajo Nation responds to communities impacted by heavy rainfall and flooding

By Press Pool
Pictured: Mullan Road monument, Spokane, Washington, erected by the Washington State Historical Society, 1922. Photo 1945. WSHS catalog ID: 1996.41.107.

Do our historical markers represent our values? Washington State Historical Society will find out with IMLS grant for ‘Dialogue In Place’ project

By Press Pool
Pictured: U.S. Department of Transportation headquarters, Washington DC.

Federal Highway Administration announces $45.7 million grant to Alaska’s Native Village of Eyak to improve multi-modal transportation access to oil spill response facility

By Press Pool

Opinion

Chris James is the president and CEO of the National Center for American Indian Enterprise Development. (Courtesy photo)

Indian Country wins big in 117th Congress

By Chris James
A strategic workshop with Native@. (Photo courtesy of Natasha Moore, Meta)

The diversity of Native identity in the metaverse

By Natasha Affia Moore
Mary Kathryn Nagle, Cherokee. (Photo by Justin Gellerson)

Castro-Huerta decision ‘flips federal Indian law on its head’

By Mary Kathryn Nagle

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FX, Sister Act Reservation Dog's Season 2 Monday 15, 2022 (Photo Courtesy: FX)
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Sister act on 'Reservation Dogs'

Navajo Code Talker Thomas H. Begay gives a keynote address during Arizona’s first National Navajo Code Talkers Day celebration on Aug. 14, 2022. Photo by Shondiin Silversmith | Arizona Mirror
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Arizona celebrated its first Navajo Code Talker Day on Sunday

Real-life sisters Sarah Podemski, left, and Tamara Podemski, will share the screen on Season 2 of "Reservation Dogs," which premiered on Aug. 3, 2022. Sarah plays Rita Smallhill, the mother to Bear Smallhill, and Tamara is joining the show for three episodes to play his auntie, Teenie. (Photo courtesy of FX)
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‘Reservation Dogs’ fetches a sister act

The University of Montana is shown in this Sept. 4, 2017 photo. (AP Photo/Patrick Record, File)
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Fort Peck Tribes repatriate sacred items

(ONE TIME PUBLICATION PERMISSION USE on date below) Nebraska Cornhusker football player Casey Thompson is an enrolled citizen of the Kiowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Aug. 12, 2022. (Photo by Anna Reed, Omaha World-Herald)
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Blending two worlds: his Native history and love of football

Rugby ball. (Photo by Helene Brasseur via Creative Commons)
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Rugby club dropping 'Tomahawk Chop' chant

If elected Patrick Branco, Native Hawai'ian, would be the first Filipino, first Latino, and first openly gay man elected to represent Hawaii in Congress. (Courtesy photo from Patrick Branco)
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Hawai’i primary features several Native Hawaiian candidates

Mary Smith, July 6th, 2022, Chicago Illinois
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A historic era

Alaska elections, language assistance, Togiak, During Election 2014, turnout surged in Alaska Native villages, including Togiak, shown here, in the Bristol Bay region. This was a result of various improvements in voting access, including increased language assistance for speakers of Alaska Native languages. A judge has ordered that the assistance be made permanent. (Photo by Stephanie Woodard, courtesy Tanana Chiefs Conference)
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Organizers, state face hurdles to getting out Alaska Native vote

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Indian Market turns 100

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Judge appears willing to unveil some of Mar-a-Lago affidavit

By Associated Press

Western states hit with more cuts to Colorado River water

By Associated Press

School shooter's brain exams to be subject of court hearing

By Associated Press

Fire at Cairo Coptic church kills 41, including 15 children

By Associated Press

Police: Man killed himself after ramming US Capitol barrier

By Associated Press

Monkeypox? Climate? Deciding what's a national emergency

By Associated Press

Troubling questions unresolved in latest end to Emmett Till case

By Associated Press