In 2020, a record-setting six Native American candidates secured seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. This year, nine Native candidates ran for Congress, including four incumbents.

This fall, there’s been much hand-wringing, data parsing and speculation across higher ed about the fallout of the U.S. Supreme Court ruling last summer that ended affirmative action. As predicted, ...

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The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country as they commune with friends and family Dennis Zotigh Beckham Barehand (Dine ...

Native American student enrollment has been on the decline for the past decade, dropping 40 percent between 2010 and 2021, a loss of tens of thousands of students. Of the 15.4 million undergraduate ...

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Many organizations and institutions have taken steps to formally apologize and begin to “repair” their relationships with Native communities. This is a global movement in which entire countries, ...

Native people inhabited the land that would become the United States long before the Declaration of Independence in 1776. But it wasn’t until 1924, when Congress passed the Indian Citizenship Act, ...

Oweesta Corporation has been an innovator for Native economic growth since 1999. As the longest-standing intermediary for Native Community Development Financial Institutions (CDFIs), Oweesta is ...

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Thursday marked the 6th anniversary of the Kansas City Chiefs banning headdresses and Native-themes face and body paint at ...

ICE and Border Patrol are increasingly detaining Native American citizens, and ignoring or refusing to treat Tribal ID cards as proof of citizenship. Just north of where ICE killed Minneapolis rights ...