Native and Indigenous News
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Maeve Conran/Rocky Mountain Community RadioFrom January 16-18, 2026, the First People's Festival in Estes Park brought together Indigenous artists, dancers, educators, and families for a fashion show, an art market, cultural demonstrations, and a powwow, creating a space for celebration, education, and remembrance. -
Courtesy of the artistThe Canadian songwriter reflects on home and ambition as his sound grows bolder on Further from the Country. -
Katheryn Houghton/KFF Health NewsMeth is a problem most everywhere, but particularly in Indian Country. In one small town on the Crow Indian Reservation in Montana, new buildings serve as symbols of a town trying to rebuild after being devastated by addiction. -
Gabriel Pietrorazio/KJZZTribes are still figuring out how to start and finish renewable energy projects amid the Trump administration freezing or eliminating federal dollars from the Biden-era Inflation Reduction Act, which directed more than $720 million to Indian Country.
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Drop it right now, before something bad happens to you. -
The only problem: No one is fully fluent. -
Campbell was the first Native American to chair the Committee on Indian Affairs and the only Native American to serve in the Senate during his two terms. Campbell and his wife have lived on a ranch on the Southern Ute reservation since 1978. -
Bison meat, chokecherry jam, and cardboard boxes: Behind the scenes of a food distribution to tribesSeven hundred boxes of food went out into the community at the end of November, each with a package of bison meat from the reservation and chokecherry jam for elders. -
Lake Tahoe is the spiritual center of the world to the Washoe people, who are Indigenous to the region, but they have limited access to its shores. A grassroots nonprofit hopes to change that. -
In December 2024, a rupture on an Enterprise Products pipeline on tribal and county land near Durango caused tens of thousands of gallons of refined gasoline to spill onto Florida Mesa. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency is getting involved in the cleanup process. -
Too few people practice it for numbers to show up in national religious studies. -
Several dozen tribal radio stations were caught in the crossfire of federal funding cuts this fall. NPR's Frank Langfitt visited one station in Colorado navigating its survival. -
Southern Ute Indian Tribe responds to a judge dismissing a tribal lawsuit over online sports bettingIn October, a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit from the Southern Ute and Ute Mountain Ute Tribes against Gov. Jared Polis and the Colorado Division of Gaming over online sports betting. The tribes say the state violated federal gaming laws and damaged state-tribal relations. -
The older generation passes the torch to a new one as up-and-coming cowboys compete for a shot at a world title in the Indian National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas. -
The personhood designation for the riveris part of a broader "rights of nature" movement that aims to bestow new legal protections on threatened natural resources around the globe. -
Kino Benally’s unique ability to capture sounds from the environment and orchestrate them into music—whether for film or for dancing—has earned him widespread admiration.
