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Alaska extends disaster declaration for west coast storms

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X U.S. Army National Guard CH-47 Chinook aviators, assigned to the 207th Aviation Troop Command, ...
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University of Alaska Anchorage taps veteran Alaska medical professional as new College of Health dean

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X The Health Sciences Building at the Universty of Alaska Anchorage is seen on Oct. 31, 2025. The ...
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Domestic violence in Native communities is focus of new survey

Abigail Echo-Hawk, director of the Urban Indian Health Institute, recalled a Native mother in her 30s who started having memory loss and other dementia-like symptoms. The woman had suffered multiple ...
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Lumbee call for federal recognition during Senate hearing despite opposition

Leaders from the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday, Nov. 5, to argue for federal recognition for the state-recognized tribe. The ...
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Tribes that restored buffalo are killing some to feed people because of the shutdown

WOLF POINT, Mont. — On the open plains of the Fort Peck Reservation, Robert Magnan leaned out the window of his truck, set a rifle against the door frame and then “pop!” — a bison tumbled dead in its ...
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Senate advancing bill to end shutdown as small group of Democrats strike deal

WASHINGTON — The Senate was voting Sunday night on whether to move forward on compromise legislation that would end the 40-day government shutdown after a group of moderate Democrats agreed to proceed ...
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Cut off from their jobs at home, Alaska typhoon evacuees have alternative income options

Regina Qussauyaq Therchik, manager of workforce and shareholder development at Calista Corporation, shows information on a laptop on Oct. 29, 2025, to Stephanie and Carl Anaver of Kipnuk. Therchik was ...
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Longest government shutdown in history strains already thin reserve funds for many tribes

Tribal nations, Native people mobilize to fulfill broken treaty obligations as SNAP and heating assistance program funds take ...
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Tribes look toward loans as reserve funding runs dry, Senate hearing reveals

Only five days remain before the current 2025 shutdown becomes the longest in history, and tribes, especially those in Alaska, are feeling the burden of ignored trust and treaty obligations, leaders ...
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Communities across Indian Country brace for potential SNAP loss

RAPID CITY, South Dakota – For many tribes, access to food is a treaty right, meaning the potential loss of funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program on Nov. 1 is yet another violation ...
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‘Going to get tougher’: Tribes grapple with ongoing government shutdown

The United States is 21 days into the third-longest federal government shutdown in history and Indian Country is bracing for an unstable future ahead as reserve funding for many tribes could begin to ...