As the United States commemorates the 100th anniversary of the Snyder Act of 1924—legislation that granted citizenship and voting rights to Native Americans—tribal voices are poised to play a pivotal ...
For the past century, since the passage of the Snyder Act, also known as the Indian Citizenship Act, Native Americans have faced both overt oppression and insidious abuse by the United States ...
They went low — very low — and Sharice Davids went to Washington. After a congressional campaign marred by a local Republican official’s racist and mean-spirited Twitter threat to send the Ho-Chunk ...
A century ago, just after White women won the right to vote, Yankton Sioux suffragist Zitkala-Sa wrote a letter to the National Woman’s Party, reminding them that women of color had been excluded from ...
The Columbia and Okanogan Rivers to the east, south and west of the Colville Indian Reservation form natural borders on a map of north-central Washington. On the ground, the reservation’s forested ...
Native American journalists and advocates discussed impacts of COVID-19, voter suppression of Native peoples and underreported stories in Indigenous communities in a Tuesday panel. The event hosted ...
When Democrats clinched a South Dakota seat in the U.S. Senate and Arizona's governorship by razor-thin margins two years ago, a small voting bloc was credited with tipping the balance: Native ...
From Other Nonprofit Media showcases select work from other nonprofit news sites around the nation. Peggy Flanagan, Minnesota’s lieutenant governor, is proud of the pace at which her state has moved ...