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Alaska Native communities secured a victory in their fight to maintain federal subsistence fishing protections after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Alaska's appeal, leaving in place a lower-court ruling that preserves decades of precedent.
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Native agriculture advocates are mounting a coordinated push to help tribal nations take greater control of their agriculture.
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USDA Rural Development has approved a $25 million loan guarantee for the Blue Mountain Mill, a regenerative flour mill under construction at Coyote Business Park on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon.
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Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.) and Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), along with Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), reintroduced the Native American Seeds Act on Thursday, legislation that would authorize the Department of the Interior to support tribal seed banks and traditional farming practices.
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Tribal Fire, a Native-owned cannabis delivery service in Sandwich, Mass., has partnered with cannabis producer Suncrafted to launch what the companies are calling the first Native American-branded cannabis product on the East Coast.
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The Chitimacha Tribe of Louisiana will open its second Raintree Market grocery store in Jeanerette on Wednesday, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony scheduled for 10 a.m. at the new location.
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A federal hemp ban tucked into a government funding bill threatens to upend tribal cannabis operations across the country, forcing Native businesses to navigate new restrictions within a year.
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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.
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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.
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A $2.3 million federal investment is poised to reshape Kodiak’s mariculture landscape, with the Sun’aq Tribe of Kodiak leading efforts to expand kelp processing capacity and diversify product development at its tribally owned seafood facility.