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Utah’s Navajo residents hope redistricting brings needed resources
There is a heated battle in one Utah county over voting district lines and the effect on Native American representation. Last year, a federal judge ruled that the districts had been gerrymandered by lumping the Navajo into a single bloc,…
Millions of U.S. adults live in education deserts, far from colleges and fast internet
Distance and technology hinder the college aspirations of a surprising number of rural Americans.
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Native American imagery is everywhere but understanding lags behind
Native imagery is embedded in the national subconscious, whether we're paying attention or not. A new exhibit at the National Museum of the American Indian is titled simply "Americans" and shows how all aspects of life have been touched by…
In wake of Standing Rock, Native storytelling gets more screen time
The very public fight to stop a pipeline company from crossing sacred land and water may be helping open doors for a surge of content from Native filmmakers telling their own stories.
Trump referred to Warren indirectly as “Pocahontas” at an event Monday afternoon for Navajo code talkers, the veterans who played a key role in the U.S. military’s communications efforts in the Pacific during World War II.
The Republican president has repeatedly mocked the Massachusetts senator for claims she has made about being part Native American.
On this edition for Saturday, Nov. 18, nearly 200 countries, not including the U.S., agree to move forward on climate change. Also, the quest to develop a universal and long-lasting flu vaccine, and a report shows that black residents of…
Nearly 2 out of 3 cases of sexual assault in the U.S. go unreported. A recent poll by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health shows that fears of discrimination and unfair…
My students felt betrayed, angry even, that throughout their elementary and middle school years, teachers had pushed a fake narrative, or had done little, if anything, to correct the record.
