The Lac du Flambeau Ojibwe tribe announced plans Wednesday to build an independent, affordable broadband system with a more than $25 million grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce.

Lac du Flambeau singer and songwriter Kelly Jackson recently released a music video for her song “Don’t Speak” in hopes that the video will spark broader conversation about the prevalence of sexual violence, particularly in indigenous communities.

The Native American Fish and Wildlife Association named Lac du Flambeau President John Johnson its tribal leader of the year at its annual conference last week.

Native American college students are becoming more outspoken about the barriers they encounter in completing their education. That's prompted calls for institutions to pay attention to the environment offered by tribal colleges and universities. A Wisconsin school hopes key milestones this year create awareness.

The U.S. Department of the Interior has ordered name changes for nearly 650 sites on federal lands, in Michigan and across the country, containing a racist term.

The government has renamed more than two dozen lakes and other sites on federal land in Wisconsin to remove a racist term for a Native American woman.

Wild rice is ready to be harvested in northern Wisconsin. Despite a decades-long decline in the crop, harvesters are optimistic about this year’s outlook.

A federal judge will allow an oil and gas pipeline to continue to flow on a northern Wisconsin American Indian reservation while its operators work to reroute the line around the tribal land.

The new teaching lodge was finished by tribal teenagers and adults.

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.