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Education Drive
United Tribes Technical College launches video series to recruit Native educators
Buffalo’s Fire
Cultural Identity
Zig Jackson’s Vision: ‘Culture is the most powerful thing you have in art’
Adrianna Adame
Health Boost
Three Affiliated Tribes among IHS grant recipients for health care expansion
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Bismarck-Mandan
Education
Free school meals bill fails in the North Dakota House
Tribal consultation
Bill seeks to strengthen tribal consultation on North Dakota legislation
Meal Access
Free school meals bill advances in North Dakota legislative committee
Workforce Strain
Bill proposes repeal of immigration office amidst workforce crisis
Voting Rules
Voter registration, campaign finance reporting debated by North Dakota lawmakers
Fresh Leadership
Daniela Aki: Igniting a New Chapter at Buffalo’s Fire
Northern Plains
Health
Shocking disparities: American Indians in North Dakota die 22.5 years younger than white residents
Education
Dearth of women in top higher ed leadership in North Dakota causes concern
Hacker Alert
School software provider is the latest target of major hack of personal data
Native Issues
Healing Journey
‘Sugarcane’ directors receive Oscar nomination with documentary on boarding schools, hope and healing
Unsolved Cases
BIA’s Missing and Murdered Unit Tackles Crisis with Operation Spirit Return
Sovereignty Shift
Valandra Takes Helm at Indian Land Tenure Foundation
Shaping Futures
Assistant Education Secretary nominee, Kirsten Baesler aims to help students become ‘future-ready’
Trade Threat
AFN calls for Indigenous trade alliance as U.S. tariffs loom
Tribal Leadership
Rudy Soto to lead national tribal housing council
Native Nations
Justice Served
Leonard Peltier: ‘Today I am finally free’
Bismarck, North Dakota
Unprecedented TribalEcon Summit features trade history, vendors in North Dakota capital
Peltier Freed
International pressure, stateside push leads to act of clemency for AIM icon Leonard Peltier
Opinion
Lost Opportunity
Senate confirmation hearings for Interior secretary gloss over Native issues
Dakota Access Pipeline
Pipeline owner joins lawsuit over Dakota Access Pipeline
Dakota Access Pipeline
Greenpeace seeks court permission to research mailer critical of DAPL protests
Arts & Culture
Sundance Film Festival
‘Endless Cookie’ animated documentary satisfies the appetite for the unseen, unknown
Wounded Knee
Johnson reintroduces bill to protect Wounded Knee Massacre site
Historic Injustice
Indian boarding school history won’t go away
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’
Wounded Knee
Fate uncertain for Wounded Knee land bill and medals review as massacre commemoration approaches
Opinion
Opinion
Sovereignty Concerns
North Dakota’s Tribal-State legislative address raises concerns, questions
Opinion
Mystery Sightings
UFO-drone sightings in Indian Country began long before East Coast buzz
Opinion
The pick
Next secretary of the Interior should elevate allotted landowner rights
Stories you might have missed
Justice served
Proud, cheerful and emotional, Leonard Peltier thanks supporters for welcome home
MMIP Progress
Two MMIP proposals advance at North Dakota Statehouse
Global Recognition
Indigenous Knowledge Earns Global Recognition in ‘Nobel Prize for the Environment’
Education Threatened
‘Losing our voice, losing our space’
Sovereign Strength
Native nations embrace resilience, take action as political tides turn
Tax Fight
North Dakota tribal leaders seek to restore vehicle tax exemption
Food Security
Hearing set Monday on bill that would provide free school meals for North Dakota students
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