Native and Indigenous News

Many Native American languages are endangered. With the help of his mentor, a 12-year-old in Michigan hopes to help preserve his language through robotics.

The Durango Fiesta Days take place July 18 and 19 at the La Plata County Fairgrounds. When the event started in 1935, it was called the Spanish Trails Fiesta. But what was the fiesta like for local Indigenous people?

Craig has cooked in a high-end restaurant — and for 7,800 prisoners in jail. He writes about cooking, his struggle with addiction and his Native American heritage in the memoir Our Knives Will Save Us.

Delbert Anderson channels his ancestors to honor those lost in the 1860s forced relocation of the Navajo. He's performing his composition over four and a half years, playing a new single note every few months.

Up until Congress passed the landmark Indian Reorganization Act, tribes weren't fully seen as sovereign in the eyes of the U.S. Most of them didn't have constitutions either. That all changed in 1934.

President Trump has made substantial efforts to curb renewable energy development. The Ute Mountain Ute tribe in Colorado managed to bring a big solar project online anyway.

Among the seven stories highlighted in "The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier" are several Wyoming characters including Sacajawea and the Northern Cheyenne leader Little Wolf.

Colorado, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming are resisting the deal because it would allow the Navajo and Hopi to lease water to cities downstream, likely the growing towns around Phoenix.

On the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Little Bighorn, Native American youth gathered at the site of the battle to mark the historic victory and celebrate the resilience of their culture.