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News Articles: Native American

Pins are pictured at a counter during a cultural meeting at the Comanche Nation fairgrounds in Lawton, Okla., in September 2023.

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  • Politics

Why more Native Americans are on U.S. ballots than ever before

At least 170 Native American, Native Hawaiians, and Native Alaskans are on ballots this fall, an all-time high. But a group tracking Indigenous candidates says more work needs to be done.

November 04, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
President Biden greets members of a Native American community upon arrival at Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport on Thursday.

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  • Politics

Biden promised to visit a Native American tribe. He's finally going, in a swing state

Biden visits Arizona on Friday to apologize for the horrors of the federal Indian boarding schools that ran for over 150 years, and also trumpet the administration's policies to help Native American communities.

October 25, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the 2023 White House Tribal Nations Summit in 2023.

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  • Politics

Biden to issue landmark apology over Native American boarding schools

Biden’s message, to come during a trip to Arizona, would be the first public apology from a sitting U.S. president in response to a federal policy that wreaked havoc on tribal communities.

October 24, 2024
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By:
  • Ximena Bustillo
Drummers, dancers and other leaders gather to perform and socialize at the Phoenix Indian Center’s Gourd Dance and Social Powwow in the Steele Indian School Park in Phoenix, Ariz., on Oct. 12, 2024.

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  • Politics

Native voters could swing Arizona. Both parties want their votes

Both Republicans and Democrats are trying to marshal Native American voters in Arizona, which could prove decisive to winning the key state.

October 15, 2024
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  • Ximena Bustillo
Muscogee Nation Secretary of Culture and Humanities Raelynn Butler outside the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta, before a hearing in the case between the Muscogee Nation and the Poarch Band of Creek Indians.

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  • Law

A decades-long dispute between two tribes gets an airing in Atlanta's 11th Circuit Court

A yearslong dispute between two federally recognized tribes — the Muscogee Nation from Oklahoma and Poarch Band of Creek Indians from Alabama — over the future of the remains of people from which both tribes claim descent was heard in the Federal 11th Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday.

September 25, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
Edward Peter-Paul is chief of the Mi'kmaq Nation in Maine. Decades ago, a sweat ceremony helped him improve his relationship with drugs and alcohol. He hopes the new healing lodge can do the same for other tribal citizens.

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  • Mental Health

A tribe in Maine is using opioid settlement funds on a sweat lodge to treat addiction

Hundreds of Native American tribes are getting money from lawsuit settlements with opioid companies. Some are investing the new funds in traditional healing practices to treat addiction.

May 12, 2024
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By:
  • Aneri Pattani and
  • Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez
Students leave the Earth lodge, thought to be used historically as a council space, at the Ocmulgee Mounds National Historic Park in Macon in 2022.

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  • News

Oklahoma's Muscogee (Creek) Nation prepares to co-manage Georgia's first National Park

This week the Ocmulgee Mounds Park and Preserve Establishment Act was introduced in both the US House and Senate. The legislation with wide bipartisan support is an important, long waited for step in creating the first ever National Park for the state of Georgia. 

 

 

May 02, 2024
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  • Grant Blankenship
A scene from the documentary “We Will Speak.”

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  • News

‘We Will Speak’: South Arts educates audiences with inspiring Cherokee language documentary

On April 7, Atlanta-based regional arts organization South Arts showcased the 2023 documentary Dadiwonisi (We Will Speak  at the Plaza Theatre. 

April 10, 2024
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  • Holyn Thigpen
Tulalip Tribes Police arrest a suspect from another tribe on drug charges. One charge — possession of drug paraphernalia — wouldn't apply to non-Native suspects in Washington state

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Tribal courts can't prosecute non-Native drug suspects. Tribes say it's a problem

As the fentanyl crisis ravages Native American communities, some of their leaders want tribal police and courts to go after non-tribal dealers. But they can't without getting permission from Congress.

February 20, 2024
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By:
  • Martin Kaste
Playwright Larissa FastHorse is a 2020 MacArthur Fellow and co-founder of <a href="https://www.indigenousdirection.com/" data-key="117875">Indigenous Direction</a>, a consulting firm for Indigenous arts and audiences.

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  • Theater

Native American playwright Larissa FastHorse takes on the 'wild mess' of Thanksgiving

Larissa FastHorse is updating the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade to make it "less harmful" to Indigenous people. She's also consulting on a new Peter Pan and has a satire called The Thanksgiving Play.

November 21, 2023
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By:
  • Tonya Mosley
Pins are pictured at a display counter during a cultural meeting at the Comanche Nation fairgrounds in Lawton, Okla., on Sept. 30.

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  • Elections

Sometimes overlooked by campaigns, Native voters could decide major elections in 2024

A voting bloc that hasn't gotten as much national attention, Native voters are an influential constituency in several swing states, making them a group to watch in 2024.

November 21, 2023
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  • Ximena Bustillo
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Georgia in Play: Andre 3000 is back; Securing your vote; Celebrating Native American Heritage Month

This week on Georgia in Play, the South still got something to say. André 3000's latest album doesn't feature any bars, but it does feature his viral flute music. Plus, a voting lawsuit questions the security of Georgia's elections, two high schoolers from Georgia will advise PBS Newshour, and Georgia recognizes Native American Heritage Month.

November 17, 2023
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By:
  • Leah Fleming and
  • Chase McGee
The 2023 Ocmulgee to Okmulgee Tour traveled on a chartered jet from Middle Georgia Regional Airport to Tulsa, Oklahoma. (Liz Fabian)

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  • News

Oklahoma visit strengthens ties with Muscogee (Creek) Nation

A Macon-Bibb delegation visits Okmulgee and Tulsa, Okla., to foster relationships and cultural understanding ahead of potential National Park designation.

October 11, 2023
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  • Liz Fabian
A performer from the Native American Hoop Dance of Ballet Arizona dances at an Indigenous Peoples Day festival Monday, Oct. 9, 2023, in Phoenix.

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  • National

Sunrise gatherings and dances mark celebration of culture on Indigenous Peoples Day

The ceremonies Monday came two years after President Joe Biden officially commemorated the day honoring "America's first inhabitants and the Tribal Nations that continue to thrive today."

October 09, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
Earlier this year, the Vatican responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the "Doctrine of Discovery," which has its origins in 15th-century papal bulls, or decrees.

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  • Religion

Churches confess and repent for sins against Native and Indigenous people

Many Christian denominations in recent years have repudiated a doctrine that was used to justify the subjugation of Native and Indigenous people. That's now playing out in local congregations.

October 06, 2023
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  • Jason DeRose
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