2024年12月8日 · In winning the popular vote and crushing the electoral college, Donald Trump won Indian Country.. Across hundreds of reservations and millions of Indigenous people, Native Americans delivered a rebuke to Democrats that reflects a deep discontent with their policies and frustration with the arbitrary limits they placed on self-governance for tribal nations.

2024年11月3日 · Native Vote 2024. While former President Donald Trump has disavowed the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, his fingerprints seem to be all over it. An analysis of the 922-page agenda for the next presidential administration finds that of its 307 authors and contributors, more than half of them had served in the Trump administration or on his campaign or …

Tribes are still pushing back on the Trump administration’s push to reduce federal funding on initiatives for Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility , with tribes taking a strong poistion that they are separate from DEIA initiatives, and their federal assistance is instead rooted in government-to-government relationships enshrined in treaties and trust responsibilities.

A coalition of tribal leader councils and Native organizations sent a letter Sunday to President Donald Trump, congressional leaders and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum warning against misclassifying tribal programs as diversity or environmental justice initiatives that could face cuts under recent executive orders.

2024年12月24日 · The Water Resources Development Act of 2024 passed through Congress this month and is expected to be signed into law by President Biden any day now. It is a big win for Pacific Northwest tribes.

2024年12月30日 · On Christmas Eve, Navajo Nation President Buu Nygren signed long-awaited legislation to have the Navajo language used, taught and supported by appropriations. With his signature, Diné bizaad, is now the official language of the Navajo Nation.

“It was a huge step forward because it recognized tribal sovereignty and allowed tribes to administer federal programs on their own terms,” John Echo Hawk (Pawnee), founder and executive director of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), said during a recent Native Bidaske commemorating the 50th Anniversary.

2025年1月6日 · President Joe Biden made history on the Gila River Indian Reservation last October with the first-ever formal apology from the U.S. government for the federal Indian boarding school system, where tens of thousands of Native children were forcibly sent to schools designed to erase their cultures and languages.

2024年11月15日 · Native Vote 2024. Native News Online released the results of a survey detailing Native American voting patterns in the 2024 presidential election.. The poll, conducted Nov. 7-13, showed Donald Trump received 51% of Native American votes in the presidential election, while Kamala Harris garnered 45% of the votes, according to the survey of 865 American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians.

2025年1月4日 · Guest Opinion. Fifty years ago, President Ford signed the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 into law. This seminal law – the product of tireless Native activism that rallied against a centuries-long status quo – changed how tribal governments serve their people.