Selected Native American News Stories
Last updated: November 12, 2025
Next update should be ready by: November 19, 2025
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Boarding School Healing
Native American boarding schools in the US, by the numbers (ABC News) 11/5/2025
Environmental Protection & Climate Change
Five Native Tribes are coming together to protect a California cultural landscape (Los Angeles Times) 11/12/2025
Standing Rock Sioux Tribe argues against pipeline lawsuit dismissal in latest DAPL filing (North Dakota Monitor) 11/11/2025
Residents of Alaska’s storm-battered Native towns consider moving to higher ground (The Guardian) 11/7/2025
The remains and stories of Native American students are being reclaimed from a Pennsylvania cemetery (NBC 10 Philadelphia) 11/9/2025
Native activists protest more oil and gas drilling in the Greater Chaco landscape (Source New Mexico) 11/5/2025
Federal Recognition of Tribal Status
Lumbee recognition debate rekindled in Senate hearing (Native News Online) 11/5/2025
Mascots, Hate & Native Representation
Respecting history means school mascot replacements (USA Today) 11/7/2025
Religious and Cultural Rights
In Maine prisons, Native American sweat lodges are part of the program (CentralMaine.com) 11/6/2025
Tribal Sovereignty and Jurisdiction
Tribal digital sovereignty: How Native communities are powering their own tech future (Ford Foundation) 11/12/2025
Gorsuch, Thomas want to ‘correct’ 139-year-old Supreme Court ruling (Newsweek) 11/10/2025
Water Rights
Why Colorado River negotiations are so difficult (High Country News) 11/11/2025
Kansas Tribes navigate future water problems without representation on statewide task force (Kansas Reflector) 11/7/2025
