Levi Rickert

On Friday, Nov. 28, the Minnesota Wild hosted the Colorado Avalanche at 2:30 p.m. CST for a landmark occasion: the first National Hockey League game ever broadcast entirely in the Ojibwe language. 

Seven-year-old Wambli “Baby Wam” Dolezal of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska joined Native Pride Productions on Thursday as the group brought Indigenous dance and heritage to the 99th Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City — delivering a message of pride, survival and continuity to millions watching nationwide.

Opinion. As Congress weighed releasing the Epstein files last week, the Trump administration quietly announced plans to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education — shifting programs that serve Native students to other agencies without consulting a single tribe. 

Navajo Nation Speaker Crystalyne Curley on Friday introduced legislation seeking the removal of President Buu Nygren and Vice President Richelle Montoya, citing alleged malfeasance, misfeasance, and breaches of fiduciary duty.

SEATTLE — On Tuesday, the Trump administration released its plan to dismantle the U.S. Department of Education. The plan includes provisions to transfer most American Indian and Alaska Native programs to the U.S. Department of the Interior. The agency’s Office of Indian Education will be transferred to the Interior Department, while oversight of the Fulbright-Hays overseas research program and all federal international education and foreign language initiatives will shift to the State Department. The department will also move its campus child care access program and foreign medical school accreditation program to the Department of Health and Human Services. The National Congress of American Indians condemned the executive order to begin dismantling the Department of Education, calling the move reckless, politically motivated and a direct threat to Native students, tribal sovereignty and the federal government’s trust and treaty obligations. “Let us be clear: This is not just an administrative change �

The Smithsonian’s National Portrait Gallery honored Mvskoke poet, performer and writer Joy Harjo on Saturday as one of its 2025 Portrait of a Nation Award recipients, recognizing her transformative contributions to American culture and letters.

Opinion. Ken Burns, the award-winning filmmaker whose work has defined how Americans understand the Civil War, baseball, jazz, and the Vietnam War, is back this week on PBS with a new six-part documentary, The American Revolution.

Tune in Saturday, Nov. 15 at 4 pm ET for a special Native Bidaské as host Levi Rickert, editor of Native News Online, interviews award-winning filmmaker Ken Burns and Jen Loren, an Emmy Award-winning host, filmmaker, and senior director of Cherokee Film.

As the nation observes Native American History Month, Cherokee Film is inviting audiences to revisit the country’s beginnings through a more inclusive lens — one that recognizes the deep role of Indigenous nations in shaping early America.

Breaking News. The U.S. Senate reached a bipartisan deal Sunday to end the longest government shutdown in the nation’s history, a 40-day standoff that shuttered federal agencies, furloughed hundreds of thousands of workers, halted SNAP benefits for millions and highly disrupted air traffic throughout the United States.