Smithsonian Magazine

How Native Americans Are Celebrating the Holiday Season With Festive Meals, Public Service and Cherished Traditions

The winter holidays and especially Christmas have different meanings to tribes and Native individuals across Indian Country ...
Forbes

How To Be More Inclusive Of Native People In The Workplace

Despite overcoming adversity, there are Native American professionals who have excelled in corporate professions. But there are very few Native people who are in the public eye for thriving in ...
NPR

Native Americans are facing a crisis of abductions and murders

NPR's Leila Fadel talks to Tamra Truett Jerus of the Alaska Native Women's Resource Center, about ways to draw attention to the 4,200 unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people.
Smithsonian Magazine

The Long Path Toward Establishing Indigenous People’s Day, a Day to Honor and Recognize the First Peoples of America

Native American Indians are committed to making Indigenous Peoples Day a national holiday in 2024. Dennis Zotigh U.S. President Joe Biden hands a signing pen to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland as he ...
High Country News

How did Native people vote this election cycle?

Indigenous voters — motivated in part by economic issues, land rights, tribal sovereignty and the preservation of language and culture — tended to support progressive priorities and liberal candidates ...

Native people refuse to be erased from America’s past, present or future

The wrenching transfer of power from hundreds of Indigenous cultures is fundamental to U.S. history. Along the way are ...
Marketplace

Gathering data on Native people is tricky. New federal rules won’t help.

American Indians and Alaska Natives are a small group relative to the U.S. population. They’re more likely to live in remote parts of the country and can be difficult to reach with traditional survey ...
Yahoo

Native activists hit back at ‘Yellowstone’ creator’s claim that his film ‘changed a law’ affecting Indigenous people

Native American activists are calling out Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan for his recent comments claiming that his 2017 film Wind River “changed a law” affecting violence against Indigenous ...
KSL

Native leaders press for more action to address crisis of missing, murdered Indigenous people

SALT LAKE CITY — As Utah lawmakers weigh legislation to maintain the task force investigating the disproportionately high number of missing and murdered Indigenous people, a coalition of Native ...
Vail Daily

For reconciliation between white and Native American people, ‘accountability is the beginning of the healing’

On Sunday, June 30, the third day of the Tipi Raisers’ Indigenous Wisdom Gathering, a dialogue took place about how to promote reconciliation between white and Native American people. The event was ...
Yahoo

National Native Organizations and Tribal Leaders Respond to Ann Clouter’s ‘We Didn’t Kill Enough Indians’ Remark

When conservative pundit Ann Coulter posted “We didn’t kill enough Indians” this past weekend, she wasn’t just spreading hate speech—she was launching a direct attack on tribal sovereignty and the ...