Amy Hoggart (@amyhoggart) I asked journalist @Rebecca Nagle whether she has hope for the future… Read our edited interview or catch up on the whole conversation! https://amyhoggart.substack.com/p/rebecca-nagle-journalist

I got to talk with comedian and writer Amy Hoggart about where the left goes from here and how Indigenous issues don’t always map onto party politics. Check it out! substack.com/@amyhoggart/...

Israel has killed over 38,000 women and girls in Gaza, according to the U.N. Another reminder the war on Gaza is about collective punishment not self defense.

Cherokee chief won’t be allowed to speak on Oklahoma House floor again, chamber leader says • Oklahoma Voice The head of the Cherokee Nation will not be invited back to speak on the House floor after he took a “political position” defending Medicaid expansion, the House speaker said Thursday.

After speaking up for Medicaid expansion, the Chief of my tribe Cherokee Nation will not be allowed to speak again on the Oklahoma House floor. oklahomavoice.com/2026/04/16/c...

Israeli Strike Kills Infant Girl During Her Father’s Funeral in Lebanon In Lebanon, an Israeli strike killed an infant girl during her father’s funeral on Sunday. The baby’s sister, 7-year-old Aline Saeed, had attended the funeral wrapped in bloodied bandages from an…

One family should not bear this much pain. A baby girl was killed in an Israeli airstrike while attending her father’s funeral in Lebanon. www.democracynow.org/2026/4/13/he...

Readjusting traditional plant knowledge - ICT How the Suquamish Tribe is finding ways to harvest, educate and prepare for ongoing plant cycle alternations due to climate change.

The Suquamish Tribe, in the pacific northwest, is adapting their traditional gathering practices to climate change. Cultural experts and their students are working through adapting traditional knowledge to changing times. ictnews.org/news/readjus...

Historical, cultural and environmental tensions mount ahead of uranium exploration hearing - ICT Project is proposed near southwestern South Dakota’s Craven Canyon, which contains ancient Native American rock art

Oglala Lakota organizers r opposing a plan to drill 4 uranium in a canyon of the Black Hills. At a hearing in Jan, a mmber of the board overseeing the permitting process had an outburst & told an Oglala Lakota organizer “your goal in life is to be a jerk.” ictnews.org/news/histori...

Opponents sue over Forest Service’s approval of drilling near Lakota sacred site in Black Hills - ICT The lawsuit says the Forest Service improperly used a process known as a “categorical exclusion” to bypass environmental and cultural reviews.

Over the fight to protect Pe’Sla, NDN Collective and others are suing the Forest Service. Pe’Sla is a sacred site for the Lakota nestled in the Black Hill and still used for ceremonies. The Forest Service wants to allow drilling for a graphite mine. ictnews.org/news/opponen...

14 agents are now in Phoenix, part of latest FBI 'surge' tackling cold cases on tribal lands Under Operation Not Forgotten, more personnel will be filtering through nearly a dozen FBI field offices with close ties to Indian Country. When asked, the FBI National Press Office would not specify…

There is a backlog of cold, unsolved cases of missing and murdered Indigenous people. The FBI announced it is sending more agents to field offices near tribal lands to address the problem. www.wyomingpublicmedia.org/tribal-news/...

'Hearing our language is like medicine to us': new book features Tlingit Raven stories in original language - KCAW A nonprofit tribal organization has published a new book that presents Tlingit Raven stories for the first time in the original language with English translations.

There’s a new book of Tlingit stories published in Tlingit! Things like books & movies in Indigenous languages r so necessary to keep our languages alive. The book uses transcribed recordings & performances from Tlingit storytellers born btwn 1870 & 1915. www.kcaw.org/2026/04/08/h...

Choctaw Nation unveils historical marker in Fort Worth honoring tribe's World War I code talkers The Choctaw Nation and Texas Historical Commission unveiled a historical marker in Fort Worth last week to honor the tribe’s World War I code talkers.

Code talkers from Choctaw Nation helped the United States win World War I. Last week, the tribe unveiled a new historical marker in their honor. www.kosu.org/choctaw-code...

U.S. Supreme Court won’t hear 'Stroble' Oklahoma income tax case The U.S. Supreme Court declined to review Stroble v. Oklahoma Monday. The decision likely means tribal citizens will need to continue paying state income tax.

Last week, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear tribal citizens’ appeal, leaving Oklahoma’s taxation scheme in place. www.kosu.org/scotus-decli...

Normally, Tribal citizens who live on tribal lands don’t pay state income taxes. Not so in Oklahoma. Since reservations were affirmed in the eastern half of OK, the state has ignored this tax law.

This new Arizona child welfare law mandates DCS to try entering tribal cooperative agreements The statute, sponsored by Republican state Sen. Carine Werner, requires DCS to identify a liaison for each tribe, who is then responsible for providing technical assistance and coordinating communicat...

A new law in Arizona will require the Dept of Child Safety to enter into cooperative agreements with all of the federally recognized tribes in the state. Tribal liaisons will coordinate, provide technical assistance, and streamline communication. www.kjzz.org/indigenous-a...

This is a great model for better ICWA compliance. ICWA (the Indian Child Welfare Act) is supposed to protect Native families from prejudice and abusive social work practices, but states don’t always follow it.

Award-winning film ‘Ceremony’ tells ‘important story for the world to hear’ - ICT Documentary wins audience award at SXSW film festival

Ceremony, a documentary by Indigenous filmmaker Banchi Hanuse, won an audience award at the SXSW film festival last week! ictnews.org/arts-enterta...

On The Agenda For New Mexico’s Next Governor Is A Truth And Reconciliation Framework Into Native Women Forcibly Sterilized By The U.S. Government Democratic party candidates to be New Mexico’s next governor have committed to support any remedies, including potential legal action, from an investigation into the forced sterilization of Native…

In the 1970s, 1 in 4 Native women of childbearing age were sterilized w/o their consent. Little has been done about it. Both dem candidates for New Mexico’s next governor have declared their intent to investigate & potentially take legal action.

Proposed federal rule could weaken tribal input on hydropower permits, Navajo groups say Navajo groups are opposing a federal rulemaking effort that could limit tribal influence over hydropower permitting, raising concerns about renewed development pressure on Black Mesa.

Navajo Nation is warning that a proposed federal rule could make it harder for tribes to challenge hydropower projects. In Navajo Nation, this could renew threats to Black Mesa, a place long eyed by energy developers. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/ene...

U.S. sues contractors over alleged $2.1M fraud in Rosebud Sioux broadband project Federal prosecutors have filed a civil fraud complaint against Arizona-based telecommunications contractors accused of inflating costs and billing for nonexistent equipment on a federally funded…

While tribes face barriers 2 internet access nationwide, a fed contractor appears 2 have scammed the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Federal prosecutors r suing the Arizona-based contractor for allegedly inflating costs and billing the tribe for nonexistent services. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/pol...

Trump 2027 budget boosts defense spending to $1.5T, proposes cuts across tribal housing, lending and other key programs Trump’s FY27 budget increases defense spending while proposing cuts to tribal housing, Native lending and key programs, even as IHS funding rises. Congress is expected to reshape the proposal.

Tribes are fighting federal funding cuts again. Trump’s budget for 2027 proposes deeps cuts for tribal housing, health programs, and economic development, while increasing money for war. tribalbusinessnews.com/sections/pol...

Sea ice along Alaska’s northern shore continues to decline, new study shows UAF researchers say that the ice, crucial for coastal communities and industry in the Arctic, has been shrinking over the last three decades.

Indigenous Arctic communities are some of the most vulnerable to climate change. Alaska is losing Arctic sea ice on its shore, but Alaska Native communities need the sea ice for hunting and fishing. www.knba.org/news/2026-04...

Agreement: Dam operator will invest in salmon recovery - Northwest Treaty Tribes For the continued operation of three hydroelectric dams on the Skagit River, a settlement agreement between the public power company…

Seattle City Light, which operates dams in the pacific northwest, reached an agreement with tribes last month to invest in salmon recovery and acknowledge Indigenous history. nwtreatytribes.org/agreement-da...

Bill seeks commission to expose history of boarding schools Legislation was recently reintroduced by two Native American members of Congress to create a formal commission to investigate one of the most mortifying chapters of federal Native policy – the

Unlike Canada, the U.S. has not had a truth and reconciliation commission around boarding schools–assimilation schools that systematically abused and neglected Native kids. Proposed Congressional legislation could change that. www.cherokeephoenix.org/news/bill-se...

First the Cherokee, Now the Palestinians Revisiting the history of U.S. attitudes toward the Cherokee Nation shows how consistent the rhetoric of oppressors is across time and place. The rationalizations for ethnic cleansing do not change.

30 yrs aftr Norman Finkelstein wrote this article, “First the Cherokee, now the Palestinian,” nothing has changed. Current Affairs re-released the essay, which shows the similarities between tactics used against my Cherokee ancestors & Palestinians today.

What the U.S. needs to do better isn’t making colonized peoples citizens, but upholding our tribal sovereignty and self determination.

So when people say everyone should be a U.S. citizen–don’t be fooled. For colonized peoples, U.S. citizenship is complicated. Often citizenship is tied to forced assimilation, land grabs, and diminished sovereignty.

They want to make the tropical island into the next Hawaii or U.S. Virgin Islands. And they are using the birthright citizenship case to say Samoans should be U.S. citizens. And nice liberals who don’t understand the complexities of colonization (looking at you, ACLU) are joining their side.

Today, people who are not Samoan can’t buy land on the islands. But if Samoans were U.S. citizens that law would probably be struck down under the equal protection clause. White residents and developers want to buy land in American Samoa.

the U.S. President, not elected by Cherokees). The results were disastrous. Most Cherokees quickly lost their land to swindle, theft, & even violence. The connection between land and citizenship is still alive today in American Samoa. American Samoans are not U.S. citizens—and many don’t want to be.

During the allotment era, the U.S. divided up communally owned tribal land and assigned parcels to individual tribal citizens. The process also conferred U.S. citizenship on Cherokees and greatly diminished our tribal sovereignty (for the next 70 yrs, leadership of Cherokee Nation was appointed by

Cherokee Nation said no, but other tribes who tried this path soon found their privately owned land overrun by white settlers and a racist white court system that refused to help.
Cherokees did not become U.S. citizens until the early 1900s. At that time, U.S. citizenship was also tied to land.