Indigenous Rights & Tribal Sovereignty

UB education researcher Sameer Honward is using podcasts to align with  Native Americans' traditional way of gathering knowledge through oral traditions.

Rather than struggle for new liberties, Native Americans fought to preserve rights that they already possessed.

The final report, Obstacles at Every Turn: Barriers to Political Participation Faced by Native American Voters, was released June 4, 2020, and provides detailed evidence that Native people face obstacles at every turn in the electoral process: from registering to vote, to casting votes, to having votes counted.

The primary objective of this study was to work with tribal communities to define and develop their own healthcare services and strategies for positiv…

Adopted September 6, 2019 Introduction/Executive Summary Skirts not required, but always admired 3 The term “Indigenous feminism” originated in demands from Indigenous women, femmes, and LGBTQ2+ relatives to address the … Continue reading Indigenous Feminism Does Not Discriminate

This article will review the history of Indian voting rights in Arizona. I begin by reviewing the history of Native American voting rights and the history of voting discrimination against Native Americans in Arizona

On July 15th, 1948, Native American suffrage was finally passed with the Arizona Supreme Court overturning the case of Porter v. Hall, a case where Arizona Native Americans unsuccessfully sued for the right to vote. This gave the Indigenous population of Arizona the right to vote. This historic day came into fruition after decades of […]

Objective To examine reported racial discrimination and harassment against Native Americans, which broadly contribute to poor health outcomes. Data Source and Study Design Data come from a nationa...

At the White House Tribal Nations Conference December 15, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that the United States would "lend its support" to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. "The aspirations it affirms," he said, "including the respect for the institutions and rich cultures of Native peoples, are one we must always seek to fulfill. . . I want to be clear: what matters far more than words, what matters far more than any resolution or declaration, are actions to match those words.  And that’s what this conference is about. . .

The $2.4 million in funding will further the Indigenous Teacher Education Program's mission to bring more Native American teachers to schools that serve Native American students.

For Indigenous Peoples Day, a scholar of Native American studies explains why understanding the tragic history of Indian boarding schools is important for healing to take place.

“Education was something that was done to us, not something that was provided for us.”

FLAGSTAFF, Ariz. (AP) — Native American voting rights advocates are cautioning against states moving to mail-in ballots without opportunities for tribal members to vote safely in person. In a wide-ranging report released Thursday, the Native American Rights Fund outlined the challenges that could arise: online registration hampered by spotty or no internet service, ballots delivered to rarely-checked Post Office boxes and turnout curbed by a general reluctance to vote by mail.

The first task in confronting this history of abuse, before reconciliation can be possible, must be truth-telling, a process Denise Lajimodiere, researcher and founder of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, said has barely begun in the United States.

Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez said that Arizona’s new voting restrictions are an “assault” on the tribe’s voting rights.

The following report, composed by the Lakota People’s Law Project, will delve deeper into what it means to seek justice for Native peoples, including but also moving beyond anecdotal evidence of police violence by presenting empirical data that demonstrates how the justice system disproportionately and cruelly punishes American Indians.

“Proportionally, Native Americans are the most likely racial group to be killed by the police,” says a report by the Lakota People's Law Project. Native American men are also imprisoned at four times the rate of white men, and Native American women at six times the rate of white women.

This month's Supreme Court ruling concerning tribal lands underscores the long, slow path for progress for Native Americans.

Tamisha Jensen requested a mail ballot in mid-September. Mail ballots don’t ship in Arizona until Oct. 7, but she’s worried her first absentee ballot won’t get to her. Jensen, a jeweler who lives in the Navajo Nation, doesn’t have a regular mailing address – she writes “a mile west of Cameron Chapter House” – and the

The Cherokee Nation Supreme Court ruled the nation must remove "by blood" from its tribal constitution in response to a U.S. government decision to include descendants of those enslaved by the tribe.

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The suit charges that diluting Indigenous power violates their voting rights and will handicap tribe members who run for office

One in every 475 Native Americans has died since the pandemic began: ‘Families have been decimated’

by Nick Estes Last June the Westmoreland County Historical Society reenacted the 1785 hanging of Mamachtaga, a Lenape man. In a viral video (now removed), jeering white onlookers shouted at … Continue reading Indian Killers: Crime, Punishment, and Empire

Support from Navajo voters may have been what pushed the Grand Canyon State to support its first Democratic presidential candidate since Bill Clinton in 1996.

In Arizona and Wisconsin, Native turnout — which often leans liberal — made the difference in Biden’s slim but winning margin.

How did the pandemic affect the 576 tribal nations across the US? Due to a lack of government transparency, we may never know.

Amber Ortega was facing charges for refusing to leave an area where workers were building the border wall. Her acquittal was hailed as an unexpected win for Native American religious freedoms.

The FCC said the change is meant to encourage help tribal libraries get discounted broadband through the E-Rate program.

Arizona's racist history of voter suppression dates back to the state’s territorial period, and features tactics reminiscent of the Deep South