National Native News
Daily, five-minute newscast featuring the latest headlines and breaking news from Native and Indigenous communities anchored by Antonia Gonzales (Navajo) with reporters and storytellers from around the globe.
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The U.S. is celebrating 250 years since the Declaration of Independence, but some Native Americans in the Mount Rushmore state are turning their focus to a different anniversary, as South Dakota Searchlight’s Meghan O’Brien reports.
Ben Jones is South Dakota’s state historian. He also chairs the state’s America 250 commission. He wants it to be an inclusive celebration.
“There was just a strong de...
It is billed as “the world’s longest and toughest snowmachine race”.
Next year, the Iron Dog Race plans to add three checkpoints to its over 2,000-mile course.
As KOTZ’s Desiree Hagen reports, a new race route, announced earlier this month, has been several years in the making and crosses through two national wildlife refuges.
The new route adds the communities of Huslia, Shungnak, and Ambler.
Rick Paquette ...
Photo: A panoramic view of Monument Valley. (Gabriel Pietrorazio)
The nation’s 575 federally recognized tribes are now eligible for conservation grants from the National Park Service. And as KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio reports, a new digital tool is designed to help them navigate the bureaucracy.
The Land and Water Conservation Fund has been around since 1964.
“It receives about $900 million each year from offshore...
Roseburg Schools and the Cow Creek Band of Umpqua Tribe of Indians have announced a partnership to help preserve the tribe’s ancestral language, as KLCC’s Brian Bull reports.
Starting this fall, both Native and non-Native high school students can take the Takelma language for official language credit.
The last known speaker died more than a century ago, but linguists and audio recordings from the Smithsonian Institution...
For many Native people, the version of California history taught in school does not tell the whole story.
For Brad Munoa, a citizen of the Pechanga Band of Indians, the inspiration for “People of the West”, a new ten-part docuseries came after learning about a California history presentation at his son’s school.
Munoa says Native American history received only a brief mention, while much of the focus was placed on...
Photo: The international boundary between Mexico and the Tohono O’odham Nation in June 2026. (Gabriel Pietrorazio)
An Arizona tribe along the Southern border has filed a lawsuit in federal court against the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).
KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio has details.
The Tohono O’odham Nation has submitted an injunction to halt the Trump administration from looking to build a wall along its 62-mi...
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument has been the target of U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT).
He has been looking to undo a Biden-era resource management plan, meant to focus on conservation and consultation with tribes.
That effort has failed for now.
KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio has more.
Using the Congressional Review Act, lawmakers on Capitol Hill could’ve killed the plan with a simple majority vote from the Senate fl...
Residents of Anaktuvuk Pass, Alaska can now use four wheelers to subsistence hunt in the Gates of the Arctic National Park and Preserve.
The change was announced by the U.S. Interior Secretary during a visit last month.
As the Alaska Desk’s Alena Naiden from our flagship station KNBA reports, residents of the North Slope village have been fighting for this decision for decades.
Marc John Morry has been hunting caribou around ...
Navajo Nation Controller Sean McCabe testifies under oath during the third day of the Budget and Finance Committee’s investigatory public hearing on June 10, 2026. (Courtesy Navajo Nation Council)
Despite the Navajo Nation Department of Justice (NNDOJ) advising government staff not to testify about a failed, multi-million-dollar housing project, one employee broke ranks.
KJZZ’s Gabriel Pietrorazio has details.
So far, N...
Photo: Pullers on Petersburg’s killer whale canoe paddle in the water at Auke Recreation Area near Juneau on June 2, 2026. (Olivia Rose / KFSK)
Petersburg (Séet Ká Kwáan), Alaska’s first traditional canoe (kéet yaakw) in a century recently completed its maiden voyage.
A small group of pullers paddled more than 100 miles through Southeast Alaska, following the tradition known as Journey before arriving in Juneau, Alaska ...
Photo: Bear Butte State Park in Meade County, S.D. (Courtesy S.D. Department of Tourism)
All nine tribes located in South Dakota are unifying in their call to return the public, federal lands in the Black Hills to tribal entities.
Each tribe passed a resolution calling on Congress to act.
SDPB’s C.J. Keene reports.
Treaty rights mandate the Black Hills belong to tribes, although that trea...
Photo courtesy Navajo Nation Council
Over the last year, the Navajo Nation Council has been investigating what happened to the $24 million in COVID relief allocated for ZenniHome, a failed housing initiative.
A week-long public hearing on the matter got off to a slow start Monday when subpoenaed witnesses failed to show up on the advice of the tribe’s justice department.
KJZZ’s Gabr...
Photo: Nahaaygm Łagyigyedm (Spirit of Our Ancestors) sits ashore One Tree Island outside of Metlakatla, Alaska. (Hunter Morrison / KRBD)
Wildlife across southern Southeast Alaska is emerging from wintertime hibernation, but in Metlakatla on Annette Island, animals are not the only things waking up.
Canoes are hitting the water again, marking this year’s start of a Tsimshian tradition that is tied to the village’s histor...
The University of Washington’s WWAMI medical school program just received a new $25 million endowment for scholarships and rural education support, as Alaska Public Media’s Rachel Cassandra reports.
The program gets its name from the five states it serves – Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana, and Idaho – and educates emerging physicians in those rural states.
Dr. Nick ...
Photo: More than an hour after the levee was breached, channels in the Siuslaw Estuary begin to fill up with a mix of fresh and salt water on May 29, 2026. (Brian Bull / KLCC)
A major conservation project near the Oregon town of Florence has achieved its goal: connecting a large swath of restored farmland to the ocean.
The Siuslaw Estuary is a 217-acre expanse that is expected to accommodate th...
Photo: Siletz tribal members Todd Logan, Joshua Rilatos, and Dylan Gorman work next to anatomic pathologist Kurt Williams of the Oregon State University necropsy team on November 18, 2025, The tribe removed the whale’s blubber, bones, and baleen for cultural use, while the OSU crew took away tissue samples for diagnostic testing. (Jens Odegaard / Oregon State University)
A group of Siletz...
New Mexico and the U.S. are one step closer to having the first female Native American governor as former Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) beat out her Democratic opponent Sam Bregman with 72% of the vote Tuesday night in the primary election.
KUNM’s Jeanette DeDios (Jicarilla Apache and Diné) was among the attendees at her watch party.
Old Town plaza was filled with New Mex...
Photo: The South Dakota Board of Minerals and Environment conducts a hearing about a uranium exploration permit application on May 19, 2026, at the Mueller Civic Center in Hot Springs, South Dakota. (Meghan O’Brien/South Dakota Searchlight)
A new South Dakota law requires language translation services for some government proceedings.
The law does not take effect until July, but it already...
Photo: Marilyn Balluta drums for the Nuvendaltun Ch’naqa K’eljeshna – Children of Nondalton Dancers. (Jeff Chen / Courtesy The MMIWG2s Alaska Working Group)
The issue of missing and murdered Indigenous people (MMIP) continues to impact families and communities across Alaska.
This week, advocates, tribal leaders, law enforcement, and policymakers gathered in Anchorage for the s...
Photo: U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola addresses a crowd during a meet and greet in Petersburg on May 26, 2026. Peltola is running for U.S. Senate. (Taylor Heckart/KFSK)
Former U.S. Rep. Mary Peltola (D-AK) visited Petersburg, Alaska Tuesday in her campaign to unseat incumbent U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK).
Peltola addressed a group of more than fifty people at Petersburg’s Alaska Native Brotherho...
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