Native and Indigenous News

Crisosto Apache was recently named Colorado's poet laureate, the first Indigenous person to hold that title. Apache is Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné.

A celebration turns into a demonstration at the Death Valley National Park after Timbisha Shoshone historical plaques were removed from the park's visitors center.

The BIA, which is responsible for overseeing trust responsibilities with 575 federally recognized tribes, focused on reducing its own workforce through mass layoffs and hiring freezes within the Interior Department – much like agencies elsewhere.

That exhibit at the Hubbell Trading Post National Historic Site on the Navajo Nation — still under review — hasn't been taken down yet, but his name is literally inseparable from this land in northeastern Arizona and its rich history.

Declining snowpack is creating new challenges for irrigation, livestock, and traditional food systems in tribal communities

As immigration enforcement expands nationwide, Native families say increased ICE activity is creating fear in their communities, even among U.S. citizens and tribal members.

'Constellations of Place' offers a different kind of reflection as it recognizes these milestones. Rather, it’s an invitation to honor Durango’s complex history of colonization through the lens of Native American, Indigenous, and Latinx artists.

A journalist and Carbondale local, Stewart Huntington, traveled back to his hometown of Minneapolis last month to report on ICE activities and local resistance efforts.

Crisosto, of Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné lineage, will serve as poet laureate for two years.

Apache, who lives in Lakewood, is a member of the Mescalero Apache, Chiricahua Apache, and Diné (Navajo) tribes, and is the first indigenous poet to serve as Colorado’s poet laureate.