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Selected Native American News Stories

Last updated: October 22, 2025

Next update should be ready by: October 29, 2025

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Education

In rural Wisconsin, proposed federal cuts rattle a Tribal college (Chicago Tribune) 10/15/2025

Environmental Protection & Climate Change

Great Lakes Tribes file brief with U.S. Supreme Court in Line 5 Straits of Mackinac case (Detroit Free Press) 10/21/2025

Minnesota Tribal Nations have legal sovereignty. They want energy sovereignty. (Minnesota Reformer) 10/16/2025

Hunting and Fishing

Alaska Native leaders call for a unified management approach for subsistence resources (KNBA NPR Alaska) 10/18/2025

For the first time in its history, St. Croix Chippewa release sturgeon (Wisconsin Public Radio) 10/15/2025

Salmon advocates seek injunction to change Columbia River dam operations (Oregon Public Broadcasting) 10/14/2025

Mascots, Hate & Native Representation

Pennsylvania lawmaker pushes to ban Native American mascots in public schools (CBS News) 10/21/2025

Native Lands & Sacred Places

A sacred lake, a Columbus statue, and an Indigenous People’s long struggle for land (Syracuse.com) 10/19/2025

Five Tribes announce the formation of a New Chuckwalla National Monument Intertribal Commission (Native News Online) 10/16/2025

The case for Wabanaki land return in Maine outlined in new report (Portland Press Herald - Maine) 10/15/2025

Rights of Indigenous Peoples

Global conservation body backs genetically modified wildlife over Indigenous opposition (Grist) 10/17/2025

Tribal Child Welfare

Cherokee Nation opens new 40,000-square-foot Indian child welfare office (Cherokee Phoenix) 10/17/2025

Voting and Civil Rights

SCOTUS hears arguments in pivotal challenge to Voting Rights Act (WUKY NPR University of Kentucky) 10/18/2025

South Dakota board approves funding for satellite voting centers in Tribal areas (South Dakota Searchlight) 10/15/2025

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