Turtle Talk

EPA and the Army Corps have supplemented their proposed WOTUS rule with alternatives that could sharply reduce federal protection for Tribal waters in a prepublication document shared at the link above.

The Fort Peck Journal has provided community-centered coverage of the return of three Fort Peck children who were sent to the Carlisle Indian Industrial School together in 1890 and died there. Louis H. Montclair’s coverage documents how the Fort Peck community has prepared to bring the children home through family participation, an awareness walk across the reservation, the Orange Flag Project, community prayers, and ceremony.

The views and opinions expressed on Turtle Talk are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Michigan State University. Current Matthew L.M. Fletcher Wenona Singel Angie Sanchez Matt Campbell Past Kirsten Carlson Trent Crable Sarah Donnelly Zeke Fletcher Kathryn E. Fort Leah Jurss Bryan Newland Matt Newman Nick Reo Neoshia Roemer David Selden Mary Kelley Victoria Sweet Ann Tweedy Peter Vicaire Teresa Walrod Monica Williamson

The views and opinions expressed on Turtle Talk are the authors’ and do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of Michigan State University. Current Matthew L.M. Fletcher Wenona Singel Angie Sanchez Matt Campbell Past Kirsten Carlson Trent Crable Sarah Donnelly Zeke Fletcher Kathryn E. Fort Leah Jurss Bryan Newland Matt Newman Nick Reo Neoshia Roemer David Selden Mary Kelley Victoria Sweet Ann Tweedy Peter Vicaire Teresa Walrod Monica Williamson

The medical campus will include twelve buildings, a hospital, an outpatient clinic, and more than twenty-three specialties. From the Chickasaw Nation press release: Upon completion, the facility will grow to include a nearly 2.5 million-square-foot medical campus with 140 inpatient beds and will employ more than 5,500 staff. It is expected to serve more than 100,000 First Americans in the region. “This campus will do things most hospitals cannot.

GTB’s Benodjenh Child Center in Peshawbestown, MI which provides Head Start, Early Head Start, and child care services to GTB children and families. Image: Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians. More than 9,200 comments were submitted on the Administration for Children and Families’ proposed Head Start rewrite by September 6, 2026. 46 of them discussed Tribal programs, Tribal languages, Indigenous children, or other Tribal concerns.

From a statement posted by the Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe and published on Sept.

Photographer David Grant Noble took a series of photos of Mohawk ironworkers in New York City in 1970. The workers were from Kahnawake Reserve. Below is a slideshow of his pictures.

Thomas Michael Swensen (Tangirnaq Native Village) discusses his new book, Where Next, Columbus?: A Native Punk Mixtape. “Where Next, Columbus? A Native Punk Mixtape” by Thomas Michael Swensen (University of Oklahoma Press 2026)

Northern Cheyenne Trial Court The Northern Cheyenne Tribal Court recently granted partial summary judgment in a case arising from a dispute between Northern Cheyenne Traditional Chiefs invoking asserted traditional authority and members of the Tribe’s elected Council. Judge Frans Andersson held that the September 10, 2025 Chiefs’ Declaration, which purported to remove eight elected Council members, was void and had no legal effect.