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12 October 2025 Brian Edwards
MINNEAPOLIS — The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis formally launched its Survey of Native Nations to all federally recognized tribes Thursday, expanding a data collection effort that tribal leaders say addresses critical gaps in economic information about Indian Country.
12 Oct
MINNEAPOLIS — Tribal leaders need better tools to address persistent data gaps that undermine their governance and economic development efforts, according to Rob Maxim, a fellow at the Brookings...
October 08
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear RunItOneTime LLC v. United States, ending a challenge to the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act and preserving the state of Washington’s tribal gaming...
October 12
Colleen Steel has seen firsthand how federal mortgage dollars can transform Native communities when they’re delivered by lenders who know the borrowers and live among them.
October 12
The Trump administration has terminated the entire staff of the Treasury Department's Community Development Financial Institutions Fund, eliminating a federal office that provides critical capital...
A coalition of labor unions, nonprofits, solar companies, and homeowners filed suit Monday against the Environmental Protection Agency. The group alleges the agency unlawfully terminated $7 billion...
 
MINNEAPOLIS — The Center for Indian Country Development has launched a data visualization tool that tracks socioeconomic changes in Native communities over more than three decades, offering tribal leaders and policymakers new ways to analyze economic trends across Indian Country.
One Navajo entrepreneur with helicopters wants to build fuel stations across the reservation. Another, a metal fabricator in Phoenix, struggles to secure even basic credit. These contrasting examples illustrate what Heather Fleming calls a persistent challenge: Native businesses that have outgrown microloans but remain too small for traditional bank financing.
Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) warned Tuesday that the Trump administration’s decision to fire all employees at the Treasury Department’s Community Development Financial Institutions Fund could undermine decades of bipartisan investment in underserved communities — including Native nations that rely on the agency’s Native American CDFI Assistance Program.
A federal reversal on tribal jurisdiction over Alaska Native allotments has cast uncertainty over two high-profile tribal gaming projects, including a planned gambling hall on Douglas Island and an operating facility near Anchorage.
Owamni, the James Beard Award-winning restaurant operated by the nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS), will move to the Guthrie Theater’s main floor restaurant space in spring 2026.
At a recent First Nations conference he attended in Canada, Dr. Richard Luarkie noticed something was missing—almost no one mentioned sovereignty.
The Chugach Regional Resources Commission closed a landback loan from NDN Fund on Sept. 25 to acquire the Seward, Alaska property that houses its operations — an innovative deal that turns a federal leasing program into a path to tribal land ownership.
Cherokee Federal said it will acquire the Salesforce practice of HigherEchelon, known as HESFP, effective Nov. 1, the company announced Oct. 7.
The Cherokee Nation has become one of the first tribes to establish comprehensive artificial intelligence guidelines, signing a policy that allows AI use while protecting Cherokee language and culture.
The College of the Muscogee Nation and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas signed an agreement that will allow tribal college students to transfer into UNLV's hospitality program with a focus on tribal gaming and hospitality management.
Huna Totem Corporation expects to eliminate 15,000 pounds of plastic waste this year through a partnership with an Alaska Native-owned water company that packages glacial water in reusable aluminum bottles.
Investors face mounting financial and reputational risks when they fail to properly engage with Indigenous communities on energy transition projects — particularly mining and renewable projects that overlap Indigenous territories, according to a new report released Monday.