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Brian Bull June 10, 2026, Eugene, Oregon Loris Taylor remembers how her family gathered around her grandpa’s transistor radio one day in the 1970s and heard a Flagstaff, Arizona, station include Chinle in its weather update. For the Hopi preteen growing up in the village of Oraibi, the idea that any major market would even mention a Native community blew her mind.

Brigitte Silk trusted Standing Rock Community High School coaches to keep her son safe in an after-school workout program. The open gym program was intended as a constructive and fun way to keep kids out of trouble while they improved their physical fitness. But on Oct.

This story launches our series Shine, which will explore limitations and solutions to press freedom and government transparency in Indian Country. Does the Fourth Estate exist in Indian Country? Some might not know what this means if they’ve never experienced a robust local tribal media system where tribal journalists – and citizens – have access to government records, budgetary information and open meetings. In a democracy, the media exist as an essential pillar of society.

The Federal Highway Administration has awarded more than $2 million in grants to tribes in North Dakota for road improvements. Announced by U.S. Department of Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy on March 19, the funding is part of a $21 million package allocated through the Tribal Transportation Program Safety Fund. The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe will receive $1,280,819 for its Bureau of Indian Affairs 3400 Roadway Realignment Safety Project.

The Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association recently led the fourth annual Great Lakes Indigenous Cannabis and Hemp Summit in Lac du Flambeau, where participants discussed federal and state policies affecting the industry. Attorneys, advocates, tribal and business leaders who gathered in northern Wisconsin also focused on Public Law 280 and Minnesota’s adult-use cannabis law, which passed in 2023. “The Great Lakes region represents both immense opportunity and complex jurisdictional challenges.

Friese said when there’s no body, prosecutors have a “more difficult challenge but not an insurmountable one.” In most homicide cases, a medical examiner can provide a time and cause of death, which can help construct a timeline, but in no-body cases, the prosecution usually relies on circumstantial evidence, DiBiase said.

Almost 150 years after a coalition of Northern Cheyenne, Lakota Sioux and Arapaho warriors defeated Lt. Col. George Armstrong Custer and members of the 7th Cavalry Regiment at the Battle of Little Bighorn, a new battle has erupted over one question: Who gets to tell the story? Since beginning his second term in the White House, President Donald Trump has waged an aggressive campaign against historical fact through an executive order issued March 27, 2025.

Indigenous-owned clothing brand Tópa partnered with Ralph Lauren for the fourth installment of the company’s Artist in Residence program, according to the National Indigenous Times, a news publication based in Australia. The collaboration blends Indigenous design elements with the American fashion house’s signature style. Tópa is owned by Jocy and Trae Little Sky of the Oceti Sakowin.

Exploring the origins of what’s become known as the Thanksgiving holiday is a hotter mess than most attempts at deep-fried turkey.

This story was filed on October 31, 2025, from Eugene, Ore One night as I began researching this article, a distinct sound came from outside my window: a monotone and brief whistle off in the woods. With my mind already primed for otherworldly — and potentially sinister — things, I tensed up in my chair and waited. A few seconds later, the whistle repeated. And again. Once more, but closer. My Westernized brain told me it was likely some type of bird.