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MHA Nation secures key victory as Supreme Court upholds majority-Native District 4A

Health Care Clash

Three Affiliated Tribes Sanford insurance plan sends health care titans into a legal battle

Mayo Clinic sues Sanford Health over unpaid bills from a Three Affiliated Tribes health plan. See a timeline of events in this legal battle impacting Native health care.

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

What are 638 contracts and how they work

Native Inc. staff push for change during Advocacy Day at North Dakota State Capitol

"This is Real Life": Local nonprofit calls for more support for homeless, recovery services

Community Boost

Underserved rural communities targeted in legislative proposal

$50 million endowment fund could spur redevelopment, housing

Michael Standaert / North Dakota News Cooperative

School software provider is the latest target of major hack of personal data

As more American companies are targeted in cyber crimes, there are a few things individuals can do to improve their “cyber hygiene,” cybersecurity experts say.

Paige Gross / North Dakota Monitor

Sovereignty Concerns

North Dakota’s Tribal-State legislative address raises concerns, questions

Was chairwoman flexing sovereignty or amplifying benevolence of the State of North Dakota?

Resources for Native peoples in the Los Angeles wildfires

Email ICT any resources to include

Indian Self-Determination

What are 638 contracts and how they work

Cultural Considerations

The 2025 Dietary Guidelines Scientific Report Provides Historic Inclusion of Indigenous Nutritional Needs

Indigenous Education

Tribes take content lead in updated Tribal curriculum guides for North Dakota schools, debut around corner

Happy 2025 from Buffalo’s Fire

Dakota Access Pipeline

13 more GOP states sign on to oppose Standing Rock Sioux in new lawsuit over DAPL

Tribal Opposition

Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians Push Back Against Lumbee Fairness Act

Bismarck Events

Sacred Pipe Resource Center invites community to kick off 2025 with family activities, prizes

Bismarck-Mandan

Sovereignty Strengthened

Standing Rock chair opens North Dakota Legislature, urges collaboration with tribes

‘We may not always agree, but we must remain united in service to our people’

Dakota Access Pipeline

Judge denies Greenpeace request to investigate mailer critical of DAPL protests

Pro-fossil fuel mailer raised concerns in Dakota Access Pipeline case

Mary Steurer / North Dakota Monitor

Sovereignty Strengthened

Standing Rock chair stresses building unity and infrastructure

President Carter

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter dies at 100

Dakota Access Pipeline

Pipeline owner joins lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline

Native Issues

Environmental Impact

Peyote threatened by psychedelic renaissance

Native use of the sacred cactus under threat from over harvesting by advocates of peyote decriminalization, as well as agriculture, housing and wind farm developments

Inaugural Tribal Econ Summit tackles financial growth on Northern Plains

Inaugural Tribal Econ Summit to tackle financial growth, collaboration for Indigenous communities in Northern Plains

Watershed Defense

Black Hills gold mining ban protects land, water, Sioux Nation ‘church’

Language Milestone

Diné bizaad becomes official language of Navajo Nation

Indigenous Education

Native students, national lab engineers collaborate in ASPIRE Summer Academy’s paid internships

Native Nations

Dakota Access Pipeline

Greenpeace seeks court permission to research mailer critical of DAPL protests

The direct mailer resembles a print newspaper

Mary Steurer / North Dakota Monitor

Standing Rock to sue to gain Lakota language materials

The Lakota Language Consortium has a long, sordid past with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and particular one of its citizens

Amelia Schafer / ICT + Rapid City Journal

JT Shining Oneside shares generational wisdom at Native American Heritage Month Celebration

Arts & Culture

Johnson reintroduces bill to protect Wounded Knee Massacre site

Makenzie Huber / South Dakota Searchlight

Historic Injustice

Indian boarding school history won’t go away

Washington Post investigation expands on data collected by Department of the Interior

Mary Annette Pember / ICT

Native Athletes

Native American All-Star Football Game at the Frisco Star set to showcase top athletes

Enduring Legacy

‘President Jimmy Carter, Rest in Peace’

Fate uncertain for Wounded Knee land bill and medals review as massacre commemoration approaches

Opinion

Mystery Sightings

UFO-drone sightings in Indian Country began long before East Coast buzz

Hidatsa man named Mabokshaa Isttii Huh Duh thought he was ‘seeing things’

Next secretary of the Interior should elevate allotted landowner rights

Will Burgum prioritize the interests of all tribes and Indian people, or will his policies favor wealthy oil-rich tribes and perpetuate the exploitation of individual Allottee landowners?

The Daily Spark