"For decades, First Nations people in British Columbia knew their ancestral homes—villages forcibly emptied in the late 1800s—were great places to forage for traditional foods like hazelnuts, crabapples, cranberries, and hawthorn. A new study reveals that isolated...
Indian Country News
The Hill: The time to return land to Native Americans is long overdue
"President Joe Biden’s pick for Interior secretary, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) will be responsible for upholding the country’s treaties with Native Americans. Haaland should use her unique position to rectify one of the most damaging early Indian policies of the United...
Indian Country Today: Madam Secretary
"A fierce Indigenous woman is now the caretaker of the nation’s public lands and waters for the first time in U.S. history. "Deb Haaland was confirmed as the nation’s 54th Secretary of the Interior in a 51-40 vote Monday, making her the first Native American to lead a...
Lancaster Online: Native American teen Gary Bad Warrior leaves S.D. reservation during pandemic, finds outlet on Pequea Valley basketball court
"One of the coolest names in Lancaster-Lebanon League boys basketball this season resides in the Pequea Valley School District, where the varsity roster includes 17-year-old guard Gary Bad Warrior. "The junior moved to Lancaster County over the Thanksgiving break,...
Yale Environment 360: Forest Defenders — A Panamanian Tribe Regains Control of Its Lands
"Tribal groups in Panama are celebrating a victory for their rights to control some of Central America’s largest forests — a victory that could benefit conservation throughout the region. "The landmark ruling, by the country’s Supreme Court, upholds a claim by the...
Seattle Times: Biden appointments, including Nez Perce fisheries champion, bolster Native American presence in federal government
"There’s a saying in Indian Country: either you are at the table, or you are on the menu. "Appointments by the Biden administration now in the works would put American Indian and Alaska Native people very much at the table, including posts where Native people have...
South Dakota Public Broadcasting: New Collegiate Program Is Science-Based & Founded on Lakota Philosophy
"A new program launched by South Dakota State University in partnership with the Indian University of North America focuses on ecosystem sustainability from a Lakota perspective."...
Smithsonian Magazine: Why Are Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?
:It’s been 100 years since Jim Thorpe dashed through the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and we’re still chasing him. Greatest-evers are always hard to quantify, but Thorpe is especially so, a laconic, evasive passerby who defies Olympic idealizing. A breakfast of...
Newsday: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Helping Fund Shinnecock Nation in Billboard Battle Against the State
"As the state doubles down in its effort to scuttle the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s digital billboard project on Sunrise Highway, it's drawing the ire of a Southampton resident who is providing moral and financial support to the tribe: Pink Floyd co-founder Roger...
The Harvard Gazette: For the First Time, a Native American May Oversee U.S. Policies on Tribal Nations
"If she wins Senate approval, Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico will become the first Native American Cabinet secretary. But perhaps more importantly, as secretary of the Interior, the enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna would also become the first Native...