Selected Native American News Stories
Last updated: June 24, 2026
Next update should be ready by: July 1, 2026
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Boarding School Healing
Once a federal boarding school, local Tribes now set the curriculum at the Santa Fe Indian School (NPR) 6/21/2026
As Indian boarding schools oral history project concludes, survivors describe feeling honored and restored (The Imprint) 6/18/2026
Environmental Protection & Climate Change
Tribal Nations gain more time to assume forestry management authority under extended BIA program (Native News Online) 6/22/2026
Federal Recognition of Tribal Status
Wilton Rancheria Tribe marks 17 years since regaining federal status (Sacramento Bee) 6/20/2026
Hunting and Fishing
Trump wants to unleash ‘America First’ fishing. What’s he really doing? (Grist) 6/22/2026
Federal judge continues to bar Wisconsin's Lac du Flambeau Tribe from enforcing restrictions on fishing (Wisconsin Public Radio) 6/18/2026
Indian Law Advancement
Opinion: The mission of John Echohawk (Concord Monitor New Hampshire) 6/22/2026
Native Lands & Sacred Places
Utah’s lawsuit to overturn Grand Staircase-Escalante and Bears Ears national monument boundaries revived by appeals court (Salt Lake Tribune) 6/24/2026
Land returned to Mi’kmaq Nation will double Tribe’s territory (Portland Press Herald Maine) 6/22/2026
Religious and Cultural Rights
City ordered to stop a construction project four years after unearthing a Native burial ground (Native News Online) 6/23/2026
Tacoma school nixed Native student’s sacred blanket. Discrimination or mistake? (The News Tribune Tacoma Washington) 6/22/2026
'I started bawling': Kelso graduate says school made her remove Tribal cap (KATU 2 ABC Oregon) 6/18/2026
Tribal Child Welfare
Dakota County Minnesota celebrates opening of Indian Child Welfare Act Court (CBS News) 6/23/2026
‘Native children belong in Native communities’: Tribes decry New Mexico drug-exposed newborn rule (Guardian) 6/21/2026
Tribal Sovereignty and Jurisdiction
AMERICA 250: Tribal Nations and the Supreme Court (ICT) 6/23/2026
Connecticut enters cannabis compact with the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe (NBC Connecticut) 6/22/2026
New phase underway for Public Law 280 (Lake County Leaker Montana) 6/18/2026
BREAKING: Tohono O’odham Nation sues feds to block border wall construction on Tribal land (Native News Online) 6/17/2026
Water Rights
Klamath Project allocation must adhere to Endangered Species Act, judges rule (Herald and News Klamath Falls Oregon) 6/19/2026
