Selected Native American News Stories
Last updated: September 2, 2026
Next update should be ready by: September 9, 2026
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Boarding School Healing
Remains of 12 children who died at Carlisle Indian School to be returned to their Tribes (WITF NPR Harrisburg Pennsylvania) 8/31/2026
Education
Tribes challenge transfer of Native education programs (Source New Mexico) 8/28/2026
Environmental Protection & Climate Change
Feds suspend permit for road construction through Alaska wildlife refuge, amid legal questions (Alaska Public Media) 9/1/2026
Indigenous groups rally against Line 5 at state Capitol (Michigan Public) 8/26/2026
‘Environmental violence’: inside the fight to save Indigenous land from becoming a nuclear dumping ground (The Guardian) 8/25/2026
Federal Recognition of Tribal Status
‘We will get it done’: 175 years in, Chinook Indian Nation is still fighting for federal recognition (Oregonian) 8/26/2026
Mascots, Hate & Native Representation
A ‘racist’ image appears hundreds of times in downtown Salt Lake City. Replacing it would be expensive, city says. (Salt Lake Tribune) 8/30/2026
Seneca Nation calls for reversal of President Trump’s ‘Lake America’ executive order (Chicago Tribune) 8/29/2026
Native Lands & Sacred Places
Federal judge extends pause on Big Bend border security construction (Texas Public Radio) 8/28/2026
Tribal Sovereignty and Jurisdiction
Indigenous groups are exempt from Medicaid work rules, but Native Hawaiians aren’t (Honolulu Civil Beat) 9/2/2026
Tribal Nations in Oklahoma: prediction markets threaten sovereignty (KOSU NPR Oklahoma) 8/31/2026
Colorado Parks and Wildlife reaches agreement with Ute Mountain Ute Tribe over wolves (Summit Daily - Summit County, Colorado) 8/29/2026
Masked federal agents sent to police border wall construction site on Tohono O’Odham Nation (Native News Online) 8/26/2026
National Congress of American Indians urges Tribes to advocate against proposed changes to National Historic Preservation Act regulations (ICT) 8/26/2026
Voting and Civil Rights
Tribes forced to re-argue successful challenge of discriminatory North Dakota legislative map (Native News Online) 9/1/2026
Supreme Court ruling on mail-in voting could affect Native vote (ICT) 8/28/2026
New data: Native voters hit significant roadblocks at every stage of election process (Red Lake Nation News) 8/27/2026
Water Rights
What the new rules for a shrinking Colorado River mean for Tribal Nations (High Country News) 8/28/2026
