Levi Rickert

Former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) and other New Mexico political leaders are pushing back against President Donald Trump's suggestion that the state be renamed “New America.”

Native Vote 2026 The New Mexico Democratic gubernatorial nominee, former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), pushed back on President Donald Trump’s social media post on Sunday suggesting ...

Native women dressed in jingle dresses and men in their regalia from the Three Fires Confederacy were among about 1,000 Native Americans and 33,000 non-Natives who walked the Mackinac Bridge on Labor Day.

Closing National Archives facilities without tribal consultation threatens access to records documenting treaties, trust lands and Indian boarding schools.

Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer has ordered a new review of permits for Enbridge's proposed Line 5 tunnel beneath the Straits of Mackinac following a Michigan Supreme Court ruling, while calling on the company to pursue alternatives to both the existing pipelines and proposed tunnel.

Natives didn't have the right to vote in federal elections until the Indian Citizenship Act was passed in 1924 but it still took decades before states ended the ban on Natives voting across the country. Arizona, New Mexico, Washington, Idaho, Montana, and Maine all had restrictions or outright bans in effect for decades. It wasn't until 1957 that Utah was the last state to end the ban on Natives voting.

Levi Rickert reflects on the Native response to 9/11, the service of Native veterans and the human and financial costs of the wars that followed.

Editor's Note: Five years ago, in remembrance of the 20th anniversary of 9/11, Native News Online reached out to several prominent Native Americans to have them reflect on where they were and what they were doing when they heard the news that the United States was under attack. Here are their responses.

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Thousands gathered along the shores of the Grand River at Riverside Park in Grand Rapids, Mich. under sunny skies with the temperature in the mid-70s to celebrate on Saturday at the Grand Valley American Indian Lodge Powwow 65th Annual Traditional Powwow.

Mary Peltola made Alaska's fisheries a central focus of a Senate debate in Kodiak, outlining proposals to address factory trawling, strengthen fishery management and increase Alaska Native representation. The former congresswoman highlighted her lifelong connection to Alaska's fishing communities and her record of securing federal support for the state's fisheries.