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30 October 2025 Chez Oxendine
A prolonged federal shutdown and deep staff cuts are hollowing out essential Indian Country programs and breaking the government’s trust obligations, leaders told the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Wednesday.
30 Oct
San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation closed on $46.25 million in taxable revenue bonds to finance a 100-bed long-term care and skilled nursing facility on the San Carlos Apache Tribe's...
October 28
A publicly traded company announced Tuesday that it has secured $51 million in financing from Lytton Rancheria of California, marking the first tribal investment in the Mojave Groundwater Bank, a...
October 27
The Small Business Administration has suspended tribally owned ATI Government Solutions from obtaining new federal contracts while the agency investigates allegations the company fraudulently used...
October 25
A new report commissioned by the Seneca Nation places the tribe's annual economic impact in Western New York at nearly $2 billion, supporting just over 8,000 jobs across 16 counties.
A Native-led nonprofit in New Mexico nonprofit will distribute more than $1 million in federal grants to tribes and tribal organizations for bison production projects.
 
For years, I’ve heard the same line about tribal broadband: “Don’t be a customer.”
Marni King’s career path began far from the boardroom. A member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, she started in a meatpacking plant before becoming a certified nursing assistant while pursuing a nursing degree. From there, she transitioned to insurance at Humana, where she earned six promotions in nine years.
The U.S. Department of the Treasury confirmed Thursday that the State Small Business Credit Initiative program will continue through March 11, 2028, resolving uncertainty over a potential deadline change that tribal advocates warned could disrupt tribal lending programs.
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 Tule River Indian Tribe has regained 17,030 acres of ancestral land in the Sierra Nevada foothills and Central Valley, expanding its reservation to more than 72,000 acres.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana has acquired GovStrive, a federal human resources consulting firm, expanding the tribe's federal contracting operations beyond infrastructure work into workforce solutions. Terms were not disclosed.
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.