Native American News

A dozen racers gathered for a color run in Lac du Flambeau Friday to raise awareness for Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives. It was the first community event hosted by the Great Lakes Inter-Tribal Council’s newly established MMIR committee.

Traditional Indigenous foods — like wild rice, bison, fresh vegetables and fruit in the Midwest — are often unavailable or too expensive for Native families in urban areas like Chicago, and the recent inflation spike has propelled these foods even further out of reach

The state can't impose property taxes on tribal lands that have changed hands without congressional approval, a federal appeals court ruled Monday.

The initiative connects elders like Bill Roundwind with tribal youth in need of mentorship.

Wild rice is in decline, so some members of the Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe are turning toward another traditional crop for sustenance – flint corn. They’ve established a community garden to grow and share corn.

Native American women are victims of violent crimes at 3.5 times the rate of the national average.A National hotline dedicated just for Native women and men suffering from domestic and sexual violence saw an 80% increase in contacts in 2021 compared to 2020.

WXPR joins a tribal spearfishing party as they exercise their treaty rights on a Northwoods lake.

The practice of spearing has evolved over time, but it has not disappeared. Tribal leaders want to make sure it never does.

Tribal and environmental advocates are calling on the Army Corps of Engineers to reject permits to expand the Line 5 pipeline, a year after the timeline Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer ordered it shut down.

A proposed reroute of Enbridge, Inc.'s Line 5 gas pipeline in northern Wisconsin was designed to circumnavigate tribal territory. But critics believe the reroute still poses risks to traditional Ojibwe agriculture.