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Author Louise Erdrich next the cover of her new book, The Sentence.

The white ghosts haunting Native Americans in 'The Sentence'

6:00am November 23, 2021

by Sam Yellowhorse Kesler

Louise Erdrich's novel turns the trope of the haunted Indian burial ground on its head with the story of a Native-run bookstore being visited by the ghost of a white woman obsessed with indigeneity.

Lake Mckenzie sits in the middle of K'gari, formerly known as Fraser Island, in Australia. The Aboriginal people in the region, the Butchulla, had been advocating for the name change for years.

World News

Australia's Fraser Island Reclaims K'gari, Its Original Indigenous Name

3:16pm September 20, 2021

by Deepa Shivaram

The name change comes after years of activism from the Butchulla Aboriginal people, who inhabited the island before colonization. K'gari means "paradise" in the Butchulla language.

Joshua Ray, a social worker with the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians, inside one of the apartments of the building tribal leaders bought in Lakeport, Calif., through Homekey.

National

California Turned Pandemic Rentals Into Permanent Housing For Homeless People

11:27am July 16, 2021

California leased hotel rooms for unhoused residents during the pandemic to move them out of crowded shelters. Then it bought some of those hotels to create long-term homes for them.

Navajo voters casting their ballots after riding 10 miles on horseback through Navajo County, Ariz.

National

In Indian Country, COVID-19 Yet Another Obstacle To Casting A Vote

10:57am November 02, 2020

by Savannah Maher

People who live on America's 326 Indian reservations often have a harder time voting due to bad roads and lack of formal addresses. The pandemic is adding challenges.

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Kim Thompson, the health director of the Shoalwater Bay Tribe, says the clinic isn't ready for novel coronavirus cases yet, but they're trying to get there.

Tribal Programs That Prepare For Public Health Crises Readying For Coronavirus

5:22am March 19, 2020

by Eilis O'Neill

Native health services are preparing for the eventual arrival of the coronavirus on reservations and in Native communities, but the system is already strained.

The Conestoga stand and face their final moments.

Books
Arts

How A Graphic Novel Resurrected A Forgotten Chapter In American History

1:21pm February 26, 2020

by Jess Kung

In Ghost River: The Fall and Rise of the Conestoga, Native artists retell the events of a brutal massacre in pre-Revolutionary Pennsylvania and bring a painful history to life on the page.

Self-defense student Megan Fleury holds her hands up and faces a potential assailant.

National

Kidnapping Threat Is Higher For Native Women, So They're Learning Self-Defense

10:49am January 31, 2020

by Quincy Walters

In some communities, Native American women are kidnapped and killed at a rate 10 times higher than the national average.
Now, some are teaching each other to fight back.

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Eagle Village resident Jolene Neiss says it's important to make each room feel like the resident's home with decorations, knickknacks and family photos.

National

Seattle Shelter Focuses On Native Peoples Experiencing Homelessness

9:33am December 30, 2019

by Casey Martin

Organizers hope potential residents are more comfortable coming to a facility that attends to their specific cultural needs.

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A fallen leaf reflects in a puddle in a park.

For Many Native Americans, Fall Is The Least Wonderful Time Of The Year

12:24pm November 23, 2017

by Savannah Maher

"Fall is the annual middle finger this country gives Native Americans," says one member of the Oglala Lakota nation.

A First Nations rally participant in Toronto, Canada, December 2012.

Opinion: My First-Nations Identity Feels More Like An Absence

1:21pm May 30, 2017

by Benjamin Doxtdator

Indigenous stories are ongoing, not simply legends from the past. I don't want my students to have the distorted idea that First Nations people have vanished or are not "modern."