Native and Indigenous News

Squaw Valley hosted an Olympics, but it now has a new name. "It's a term that was inflicted upon us by somebody else and we don't agree with it," an official of the Washoe Tribe says.

Sweet grass and sage filled the air as the Skyhawk Nation drum group played for hundreds that gathered at the clocktower at Fort Lewis College for a ceremony to celebrate the removal of three Indian boarding school panels.

The nation's first Native American poet laureate has a new memoir in which she tells her own story — as well as the story of her sixth-generation grandfather, who was forced from his ancestral land.

The goal of Senate Bill 29 is to increase the number of Native American students who attend – and are successful – in college.

The Warm Springs Reservation in central Oregon is living with the effects of wildfire and smoke. Recent experiences have changed how the community approaches management of these blazes.

After discoveries of more than 1,300 bodies at Canada's residential schools, the U.S. is now facing a crucial moment of reckoning with its own history of Native American boarding schools.

The Cherokee Nation granted citizenship to the descendants of former enslaved people known as Freedmen. Other tribes feel pressured to do the same, and Congress is beginning to get involved.

At the beginning of the pandemic, Marquerita Donald was working as a Navajo translator in hospitals. She eventually contracted COVID-19. Now, after recovery, she's in nursing school.

The Hughes Land Back initiative is spearheaded by local Native and Indigenous leaders. They're asking the Fort Collins, Colorado-based university to return a 165 acre parcel of land to its original stewards.

Gov. Jared Polis’ executive order reverses two proclamations that led to the massacre of 230 Cheyenne and Arapaho people in 1864. Representatives and leaders from the Southern Ute, Ute Mountain Ute, Northern Arapaho, Turtle Mountain Ojibwe, and Lakota, tribes attended the ceremony outside the Colorado State Capitol in Denver.

Once dedicated to commemorating Kit Carson, the Fort Garland Museum's new exhibit acknowledges the brutal effects that westward expansion and settler-colonialism had on Indigenous and Native Americans.

Hay and corn production is down, and the Ute Mountain Ute Farm & Ranch Enterprise had to let go 50% of its employees, half of whom are tribal members who live in Towaoc, the tribe's headquarters and main town on their reservation.