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Donald Trump has decided Lake Ontario should now be called “Lake America.” After trade negotiations with Canada collapsed, Trump signed an executive order attempting to rename one of the Great …

Nearly 45 million acres of public forests are under threat, if the U.S. Department of Agriculture gets its way.

The federal agency houses the U.S. Forest Service, and its Secretary …

Nearly 45 million acres of public forests are under threat, if the U.S. Department of Agriculture gets its way.

The federal agency houses the U.S. Forest Service, and its Secretary …

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To advance border wall construction in multiple states, the Trump administration waived dozens of environmental laws such as the Clean Water Act, Endangered Species Act, and …

More than one million Tribal citizens participate in SNAP. But last year’s Big Brutal Bill contained the largest cut to SNAP benefits in the program’s history. It additionally shifted costs …

More than 1.8 million Natives rely on Medicaid. Last year’s cuts will harm 700,000 Native people — including 60% of all Native children and two out of every five elders.

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The Bureau of Land Management is preparing to sell nearly 17,000 acres of Native ancestral land next month to polluting oil and gas corporations.

The administration failed to consult with the …

Thanks to former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, the first Native to run the department, public grazing land was opening up under her expansive Biden-era order to “restore wild and healthy …

The Office of Management and Budget issued a new proposed rule that will impact nearly all federal agencies’ grantmaking.

The agency wants to block federal funding for groups and institutions …

Democrats, including Sharice Davids — the first 2SLGBTQI+ Native elected to Congress, want to offer a helping hand to older 2SLGBTQI+ people who live in isolated, rural parts of the …

The Public Health Services for Advancing Care and Creating Efficient Support Systems in Underserved Communities Act (PHS ACCESS Act), would allow U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corps Officers to be …

It’s Pride Month, and the presidential administration is trying to weaken life-saving protections for Two-Spirit, transgender, intersex, and queer people — collectively known as 2SLGBTQI+ people.

Right now, our 2SLGBTQI+ …

The Senate Energy Natural Resources Committee has voted in favor of Mike Lee’s Wildfire Prevention Act. That means the next stop is for a full Senate vote and we need …

In response to the Trump administration’s attacks on Native housing, including proposed cuts in Trump’s FY2027 budget and the administration’s freezing of Native housing funds previously allocated by Congress, a …

Native peoples are being harassed and detained by ICE as part of their racial profiling.

Now, there’s a bipartisan bill in the U.S. House and Senate that would require federal agents …

Native sovereignty requires voting rights, equal access to representation and respect for the US Constitution.

But the Supreme Court’s recent Louisiana v. Callais ruling has dismantled a core protection of the …

On Tuesday May 19, the Federal Lands Subcommittee of the House Natural Resources Committee will hold a hearing on H.R.7695, which would nullify the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

Getting rid …

In exchange for stealing our land, the federal government agreed to fund healthcare, housing, education, nutrition, and other programs for Native peoples.

But these programs are severely underfunded. Already, last …

When Donald Trump released his budget earlier this month, it included billions of dollars in cuts to programs that are critical to Indian Country.

The budget proposes a 14% cut …

This Earth Day, let’s protect the sacred and ecologically important Oak Flat.

Despite Tribal opposition, this land has just been transferred to the notorious foreign mining corporation Resolution Copper.

But …

We must protect Oak Flat (Chí’chil Biłdagoteel), a deeply sacred place on federal land.  

The U.S. federal government transferred this land to a mining corporation last month, which plans to …

Around two-thirds of Indigenous languages on Turtle Island have long had words to recognize and affirm the existence of more than two genders. Often they played special roles in our …

Donald Trump’s Secretary of the Interior, Doug Burgum, has issued an order that would rewrite or remove some of the most painful parts of U.S. history, as well as the …

The Trump administration’s attacks on diversity programs and immigrants have reached a new level with the General Services Administration introducing a new rule that would require all nonprofits, Tribes, and …