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Pasqua (left) and echo (right) lakes with echo valley provincial park and standing buffalo 78 indian reserve in the middle.

Tribal leaders have outlined a plan for a customs-free trade corridor along historic pathways that would cross the U.S.–Canada border.

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How Native American tribes are bringing their communities measles vaccines and access to health care

by Arielle Zionts

July 30, 2025

Native American tribes are responding to concerns about low measles vaccination rates and patients’ difficulty accessing health care as the disease spreads across the country.

Miccosukee tribe joins fight against the center. Stephen miller and kristi noem toured the center on july 5 with trump

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Miccosukee Tribe Joins Fight Against ‘Alligator Alcatraz’

by Miacel Spotted Elk

July 16, 2025

The Miccosukee, who make their home in the Everglades, said authorities didn't do an environmental review.

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Trump Could Use Sacred Native Land for a Monument to… Christopher Columbus

by Matthew Sledge, The Intercept

June 7, 2025

Trump’s plan for a national statue garden could get built on sacred Native land currently held by a wealthy South Dakota mining family.

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Tribes Question Kennedy’s Promise To Protect Them From Health Cuts

by Jazmin Orozo Rodriguez

June 7, 2025

RFK, Jr. Pledged to protect health services for Native Americans from cuts. Tribes question if he meant it.

Thpos protect tribal lands like this one, with wild horses roaming the area

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How the Trump Administration is Putting Hundreds of Sacred Sites at Risk

by Maria Parazo Rose

May 30, 2025

Indigenous nations are facing impossible deadlines and vanishing budgets amid sweeping federal rollbacks.

Protest at city hall over police killing

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‘He didn’t deserve what happened:’ dommunity, family of Madras man killed by police speak out

by Nika Bartoo-Smith

April 28, 2025

“He didn't deserve what happened," Gilbert said, emotion heavy in her voice. "His name is Allan Dale Warner Jr. and his life mattered."

Olive oshiro with “i belong” written on her right hand, a message during the nooksack indian tribe's disenrollment of her and 305 of other citizens. The late oshiro was also a first nations shxwhá:y village citizen.

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Gaps in Native property rights exposed by eviction

by Luna Reyna

April 27, 2025

Olive Oshiro, a disenrolled Nooksack citizen, died before the four-year legal battle with Nooksack Indian Tribe to keep her home of two decades was over. Nooksack ordered her family’s eviction by April 1, but she may have owned her home as far back as 2020 if there had been proper oversight by the…