Selected Native American News Stories


Last updated: November 5, 2025

Next update should be ready by: November 12, 2025

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Boarding School Healing

‘The Evergreen’: Uncovering the personal histories of Native American boarding schools [podcast] (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 11/3/2025

Franciscan Sisters transfer land to Lac du Flambeau Tribe in bid to repair boarding school legacy (Wisconsin Public Radio) 11/3/2025

Environmental Protection & Climate Change

A Tribe in Nevada finally had funding for climate resilience. Then a grant was ripped away (Nevada Current) 11/3/2025

Native Alaska villages were already on the front lines of climate change. Then a typhoon hit. (Grist) 11/3/2025

Native American sovereignty and environmental sustainability (Impakter) 11/3/2025

Army Corps approves Enbridge pipeline reroute around Wisconsin reservation (ICT) 10/30/2025

Hunting and Fishing

Oklahoma AG vows to protect Tribal Nations' rights to hunting, fishing (KOSU NPR Oklahoma) 10/30/2025

Native Lands & Sacred Places

Tule River Indian Tribe of California reclaims 17,030 acres and reintroduces tule elk on ancestral land (Elk Grove Citizen - California) 10/29/2025

Tribal Sovereignty and Jurisdiction

5 largest Tribes in Oklahoma are asking SCOTUS to take up tax case involving Muscogee citizen (KGOU NPR Oklahoma) 11/4/2025

What data sovereignty means for Native Nations (Buffalo's Fire) 11/3/2025

Federal judge rules DOI violated Scotts Valley Band's due process rights in casino dispute (Tribal Business News) 11/2/2025

Indigenous identity: ‘Invisible within the data’ (ICT) 11/1/2025

Voting and Civil Rights

US Supreme Court voting rights case could undermine Native American rights, advocates warn (South Dakota Searchlight) 10/28/2025

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