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| Aug 7, 2026 | Mark Cruz to lead Indian Health Service amid staffing and infrastructure challenges | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By SAVANNAH PETERS
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — The U.S. Senate voted Friday to confirm Mark Cruz, a citizen of the Klamath Tribes, to lead the federal agency that provides healthcare for some 2.8 mill... |
| Jun 30, 2026 | Trump administration seeks to stomp out all fires quickly, reviving policy that has been discredited | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By MARTHA BELLISLE and MATTHEW BROWN
The deaths of three U.S. government firefighters in a Colorado wildfire are casting a spotlight on the Trump administration’s creation of a new federal fire ser... |
| Jun 23, 2026 | As Native American boarding schools project ends, survivors describe feeling honored and restored | Getting your Trinity Audio player ready...
By NANCY MARIE SPEARS/The Imprint
Hundreds of Indigenous people have testified. They’ve sobbed, cursed and laughed in spite of it all. Many told stories about their time in boarding schools that th... |
| Jun 8, 2026 | Bureau of Indian Affairs Creates Probate... | The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) is behind on 55,000 probate cases nationwide and has assigned a worker to the Comanche Nation to file for Comanche cases.
Sunny Walker is the new Probate and Estate Coordinator for the Comanche Nation thro... |
| May 6, 2026 | Interior Department Launches New Task Force to Combat Violent Crime in Indian Country | The Department of the Interior is launching a new Indian Country Violent Crime Task Force to strengthen law enforcement coordination, protect families in tribal communities, and crack down on violent crime and drug activity.
The Secretary’s... |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Department of the Interior Completes Three-Day Probate Outreach Event at Gila River Indian Reservation | The Department of the Interior completed a three-day probate outreach event this past week on the Gila River Indian Reservation in Arizona, where staff met with community members in two locations to offer direct support and trust services. ... |
| Oct 1, 2025 | Government shutdown risks: DOGE real estate impact shows one way federal cuts can ripple across economy | To learn more about the CNBC CFO Council, visit cnbccouncils.com/cfo
The DOGE’s website touts 384 lease terminations resulting in an estimated $140 million in savings.
Those numbers don’t tell the full economic story: lease cancellations of... |
| May 5, 2025 | Indigenous people raise awareness about their missing and murdered | She will warn them that her father was killed and another relative was a victim of sex trafficking.
“That’s why I ride for it,” Milligan said. “I don’t want it to happen to anyone else.”
Christina Castro, of Taos Pueblo in New Mexico, has a... |
| Apr 27, 2025 | As Real ID deadline for U.S. air travel approaches, there are ‘workarounds,’ experts say | May 7 is the deadline for U.S. air travelers to have a Real ID — an upgraded driver’s license or state identification card issued by a state agency.
Travelers who don’t have a Real ID can use a valid U.S. passport, passport card, permanent ... |
| Mar 9, 2025 | The Quiet Storm: Federal Cuts and Their Impact on Tribal Communities | In the heart of America, a storm brews. It’s not a tempest of wind and rain, but a quiet upheaval threatening the very fabric of tribal communities. Federal funding cuts are not just numbers on a budget sheet; they are lifelines severed, ec... |
| Mar 6, 2025 | National Politics | For tribal communities, federal cuts decimate core programs | “This is going to destroy whole regional economies in rural areas around the country,” said Matthew Fletcher, an Indian law professor at the University of Michigan and a member of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians.
The ... |
| Feb 20, 2025 | Trump’s cuts to federal wildfire crews could have ‘scary’ consequences | “It’s just going to be a disaster for the wildfire response this season,” he said.
Scott was slated to move to a new Forest Service fire station this spring. But following the federal hiring freeze, he was told by his captain that it’s uncl... |
| Jan 30, 2025 | National Politics | Senate confirms Doug Burgum as interior secretary after Trump tasked him to boost drilling | His directive from Trump is to make it even easier for energy companies to tap fossil fuel resources, including from public lands. That raised alarms among environmentalists and some Democrats as greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels b... |
| Jan 8, 2025 | Biden-Harris Administration Announces $121 Million to Help Tribes Build Climate Resilience | Date: Wednesday, January 8, 2025
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WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced a $121 million investment from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda to help Tribal communities prepare... |
| 2025 | Business | In southwestern Colorado, the Ute Mountain Ute Tribe’s corn — and other products — are a source of pride: “That is ours” | “In many parts of the country, Tribes are becoming regional economic and political power houses,” the Office of Indian Energy and Economic Development wrote in its tribal business structure handbook. “They are the largest employer in many c... |
| Nov 18, 2024 | Acting Deputy Secretary Daniel-Davis Highlights Commitment to Incorporating Indigenous Knowledge, Enhancing Tribal Climate Resilience at COP29 | Date: Monday, November 18, 2024
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BAKU, Azerbaijan — Acting Deputy Secretary Laura Daniel-Davis today kicked off a week-long series of events, meetings and activities at the 29th Conference of the Parties (... |
| Oct 27, 2024 | Inslee statement on President Biden’s apology for Indian boarding school system | WASHINGTON, October 26 - President Biden issued a formal apology yesterday for the United States’ boarding school system that separated Native American children from their families and placed them in schools where they were forced to assimi... |
| Oct 26, 2024 | Inslee statement on President Biden’s apology for Indian boarding school system | President Biden issued a formal apology yesterday for the United States’ boarding school system that separated Native American children from their families and placed them in schools where they were forced to assimilate. Recent reports from... |
| Oct 16, 2024 | Biden-Harris Administration Strengthens Alaska Tribal Representation on Federal Subsistence Board | WASHINGTON, Oct. 16, 2024 — The Departments of the Interior and Agriculture today announced a final rule to strengthen Alaska Tribal representation on the Federal Subsistence Board (FSB), which manages subsistence use on federal lands and w... |
| Sep 28, 2024 | Readout of Departments of Justice and Interior Roundtable on Media Coverage of Missing or Murdered Indigenous Peoples and Human Trafficking | Senior officials from the Justice Department and Department of the Interior yesterday convened a roundtable discussion with Tribal leaders, advocates, members of the media, and federal officials to discuss how media coverage can be channele... |
| Sep 19, 2024 | IHS Awards Nearly $1.2 Million Addressing Alzheimer’s Disease during World Alzheimer’s Month | The Indian Health Service is announcing the award of an additional $1.19 million through six cooperative agreements to enhance tribal and urban Indian health system local capacity to provide dementia care and services. The total commitment ... |
| Sep 1, 2024 | Полиция Техаса потратит $5,3 млн на инструмент с технологией геозонирования | Департамент общественной безопасности Техаса (DPS) подписал контракт стоимостью в $5,3 млн на использование инструментов Tangles и WebLoc израильской компании Cobwebs Technologies, принадлежащей PenLink. Контракт будет действовать пять лет.... |
| Aug 22, 2024 | Assistant Secretary Newland Highlights Salmon Restoration, Tribal Electrification During Washington and Alaska Visits | Date: Thursday, August 22, 2024
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KODIAK, Alaska — Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland wrapped a multi-day visit to Washington and Alaska where he highlighted the Biden-Harris administratio... |
| Jul 9, 2024 | Biden-Harris Administration Invests $120 Million to Help Tribes Build Climate Resilience, as part of President’s Investing in America agenda | Date: Tuesday, July 9, 2024
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SHELBYVILLE, Mich.— Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today announced the availability of $120 million in new funding supported by President Biden’s Investing in America ag... |
| Jun 20, 2024 | NASA Releases Updated Climate Change Adaptation, Resilience Plan | WASHINGTON, June 20, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- NASA joined more than 20 federal agencies in releasing its updated Climate Adaptation Plan Thursday, helping expand the Biden-Harris Administration's efforts to make federal operations increasingly ... |
| Mar 15, 2024 | Interior Department Makes $55 Million Available from President Biden’s Investing in America Agenda to Clean Up Orphaned Oil and Gas Wells on Tribal Lands | Date: Friday, March 15, 2024
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WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced final guidance for Tribal communities on how to apply for $55 million in grant funding and direct assistance availa... |
| Feb 15, 2024 | Agriculture and Interior Departments Propose Changes to Strengthen Alaska Tribal Representation on Federal Subsistence Board | WASHINGTON, Feb. 15, 2024 — The Departments of Agriculture and the Interior today announced a proposal to strengthen Alaska Tribal representation on the Federal Subsistence Board (FSB), which manages subsistence use on federal lands and wat... |
| Nov 30, 2023 | Bringing Awareness to Violence in Tribal Communities | Research has found that Native Americans experience a per capita rate of violence twice that of the U.S. resident population, and that female Native Americans are murdered at ten times the national average. In addition, murder is the third ... |
| Nov 27, 2023 | Education | New CU Boulder administrator works to draw more Native students to university | Benny Shendo Jr. didn’t know he was supposed to fail.
The odds were stacked against him — the result of generations of systemic barriers facing Native Americans after the U.S. government stole or forced the sale of their lands, banned their... |
| Apr 26, 2023 | HHS Announces $2.5 Million for Produce Prescription Programs in Indian Country | The program, part of the Biden-Harris Administration’s Nutrition Strategy, will help reduce food insecurity and improve health care outcomes among American Indian and Alaska Native people.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, t... |
| Mar 1, 2023 | How Alaska became one of fentanyl's deadliest frontiers | An influx of fentanyl into Alaska in the last two years has vexed law enforcement, overwhelmed health systems and deeply affected struggling Native communities.
In 2020 and 2021, the synthetic opioid was a major contributor in a spike in ov... |
| Nov 8, 2022 | The Supreme Court needs to uphold protection for Native American children | As an American Indian pediatrician working in my own tribal community, I know how important it is to ensure that children have connections to their culture and community to support their well-being. That is why I think it is essential that ... |
| Oct 13, 2022 | Health
Health | Climate change magnifies health impacts of wildfire smoke in care deserts | DRESSLERVILLE, Nev. — Smoke began billowing into the skies of northwestern Nevada in September, clouding the mountains, dimming the sun — and quashing residents’ hopes that they would be spared from wildfires and the awful air quality the b... |
| Sep 28, 2022 | Feds, Seminoles Advance ‘Fiction’ That Compact Never ‘Authorized’ Online Sports Betting In Florida | (Photo by PAUL ELLIS / AFP) (Photo by PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images)AFP via Getty Images |
| Jun 3, 2022 | Funding Available to Support Native Language Revitalization | By: Julian Guerrero, Director, Office of Indian Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education
Haa Maruaweka (“Hello everyone,” in Comanche language)
Advancing its commitment to maintaining, protecting, and revitalizing Native Ameri... |
| May 31, 2022 | IHS Allocates $700 Million From President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to Improve Tribal Water and Sanitation Systems | Today, the Indian Health Service is announcing allocation decisions for $700 million appropriated to the IHS in President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which appropriates $700 million in each fiscal year from FY 2022 through FY 202... |
| May 11, 2022 | Statement from Gov. Jay Inslee in response to federal report regarding Native boarding schools | Story
The U.S. Department of the Interior released a national investigative report today that identified more than 400 federally-run schools for Native American children, including 15 in Washington state. The report is the first step for th... |
| May 11, 2022 | Statement from Gov. Jay Inslee in response to federal report regarding Native boarding schools | WASHINGTON, May 11 - Story
The U.S. Department of the Interior released a national investigative report today that identified more than 400 federally-run schools for Native American children, including 15 in Washington state. The report is ... |
| May 9, 2022 | Indian Health Service funding provides resources to address Alzheimer’s disease | The Indian Health Service is announcing $5 million to target resources directly to tribes, tribal organizations, urban Indian organizations, and IHS direct service facilities to address Alzheimer’s disease within tribal communities. This ma... |
| Apr 25, 2022 | Indian Health Services Announces Five Million Dollars in Funding for Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. | The Indian Health Service is announcing five million dollars in funding for “Ending the HIV Epidemic in the U.S. ” to support work toward the elimination of HIV and hepatitis C in Indian Country.
“At HHS, we continue to confront the HIV epi... |
| Nov 26, 2021 | A Native American photographer is taking powerful portraits of members of every tribe across the US | takes intimate portraits of Native people across America. Matika Wilbur
Matika Wilbur is photographing members of every federally recognized Native American tribe.
She asks people about themselves and their identies and records their answer... |
| Nov 24, 2021 | Creating Scholarship Opportunities For Descendants Of American Indian Boarding Schools | Children from the Chiricahua Apache tribe during their time at the Carlisle school. Photo Credit: National Archives (public domain) |
| May 18, 2021 | Florida Lawmakers Given Misleading FAQs On Sports Betting Compact And Allowability Of Mobile Wagering | Florida lawmakers will be tasked with a very important decision this week. They are re-convening in Tallahassee for a one-week special session that will address the future of gambling in Florida. Of the 15 gaming bills that are under consid... |
| Jun 5, 2019 | Albuquerque to get closer to 100% with solar farm on Apache land | At last count, 126 municipalities had either committed to purchasing 100% of their electricity from renewable energy sources, or, in the case of six, had already achieved that goal. Many of these cites are small, with the larger ones typica... |
| Jan 17, 2019 | These are all the federal HTTPS websites that’ll expire soon because of the US government shutdown | We like to think of ourselves as nerds here at TechCrunch, which is why we’re bringing you this.
During the government shutdown, security experts noticed several federal websites were throwing back browser errors because the TLS certificate... |
| Overturning abortion rights could amplify the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people, many of whom are victims of domestic violence or sex trafficking | Family members of missing and murdered indigenous women in Montana gather in front of the state Capitol in Helena, Mont., Wednesday, May 5, 2021. Iris Samuels/Associated Press
Abortion rights may be overturned, according to a leaked Supreme... |
| Thomas Jefferson once secretly wrote to Congress that the US would try to drive Native Americans into debt in order to take their land | Thomas Jefferson / Children from a Native American boarding school Getty Images / US Department of Interior
Thomas Jefferson once wrote to Congress that the US would try to drive Native Americans into debt to take their land.
He suggested e... |
| Biden administration grants $75 million to relocate three Native tribes away from rising oceans | The Department of the Interior under the Biden administration is providing three Native American tribes $75 million to relocate from coastal areas at risk of destruction, a decision that comes after tribes across the country competed for th... |