Selected Native American News Stories
Last updated: December 18, 2024
Next update should be ready by: January 8, 2025
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Education
The White House Council on Native American Affairs releases 10-year tribal language revitalization plan (Native News Online) 12/13/2024
Environmental Protection & Climate Change
13 more GOP states sign on to oppose Standing Rock Sioux in new lawsuit over DAPL (Iowa Capital Dispatch) 12/17/2024
Bad River Tribe, environmental groups challenge state permits for Line 5 reroute (Wisconsin Public Radio) 12/12/2024
Clean energy or green colonialism? Tribes want President Biden to save the Owyhee Canyonlands (ICT) 12/11/2024
Federal Recognition of Tribal Status
Little Shell Tribe marks five years of federal recognition (Montana Free Press) 12/16/2024
‘The time is now’: Lumbee Tribe sees movement on federal recognition bill (Indianz.com) 12/16/2024
Native Lands & Sacred Places
Will Bears Ears survive a second Trump Administration? (Backpacker) 12/17/2024
More than a century after their land was ravaged by the California gold rush, Yurok Tribe to reclaim territory (CBS News) 12/16/2024
Toward solidarity: reparations and Land Back on California’s horizon (Nonprofit Quarterly) 12/12/2024
Rights of Indigenous Peoples
New set of human rights principles aims to end displacement and abuse of Indigenous People through ‘fortress conservation’ (The Conversation) 12/10/2024
Trust Fund Matters
Native lawsuit claims U.S. mismanaged mineral rights leases (The Norman Transcript Oklahoma) 12/13/2024
Violence Against Native People
Feds release media guidelines for reporting on MMIP cases (Native News Online) 12/11/2024
Voting and Civil Rights
‘A commitment to free and fair bipartisan elections’: Harvard Law students, faculty, and staff served as nonpartisan poll monitors in Nevada (Harvard Law Today) 12/11/2024
