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Shaky Ground: How the United States Uses the Law to Steal Indigenous Land

A review of Peter d’Errico’s Federal Anti-Indian Law: The Legal Entrapment of Indigenous Peoples, an indictment of a legal system with the unflinching goal of stealing as much land as possible.

Stephanie Woodard

FeatureInvestigationGoodman Institute

Mining Companies Strike Gold by Destroying Public Lands

Indigenous tribes sound the alarm about a mining boom

Stephanie Woodard

DispatchRural America

Native Voters Could Swing the 2020 Election—If They’re Able to Vote

Menominee tribal citizens are working to make Native votes count in Wisconsin

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Bringing Back the Buffalo Was Always Important to the Rosebud Sioux. The Pandemic Made It Urgent

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Sioux Tribes Are Protecting Their People from Pandemic. The Governor Is Trying to Stop Them

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

‘To Preserve the Future of Our Past’: Tribes Work for World Heritage Designation of Ohio Earthworks

Stephanie Woodard

Dispatch

At First-Ever Native American Presidential Forum, Candidates Answer to Centuries of Injustice

With Indian country’s electoral power growing, presidential hopefuls pledged to honor treaties and enact structural change.

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Removing the Stain of Wounded Knee:  Members of Congress Move to Rescind Medals of Honor

Stephanie Woodard

Feature

Native Americans Take Power

The new wave of indigenous elected officials.

Stephanie Woodard

Feature

Native Americans Scored Big Election Wins in Washington State and Beyond

On Tuesday, Puyallup tribe members celebrated a landmark police accountability initiative, as well as Native victories nationwide.

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Digital Smoke Signals in the 2018 Midterms

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

20,000 Native Voters for North Dakota?

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Court Backs Navajo Candidate, Blasts Utah County

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Navajo Candidate Kicked Off Utah Ballot Files Suit

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Plant a Tree: A Native Community Takes a Step to Reverse Climate Change

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Warnings from First Americans: Insidious Changes Are Underway that Will Affect Us All

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Civil-Rights Complaint Details Horrific—Even Deadly—Discrimination Against Native Kids

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Reprieve for an Ancient Site: A Mining Company and a Tribe Find a Way to Work Together

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Building on Standing Rock, Native Americans Lead the Way at the People’s Climate March in D.C.

Stephanie Woodard

Feature

Voices from the Movement for Native Lives

Advocates talk about the country's "silent, comfortable genocide."

Stephanie Woodard

InvestigationGoodman Institute

Native Americans Are Being Killed by Police at a Higher Rate Than Any Other Group

These deaths are rarely covered in the media, but now, Native groups are organizing for justice in a growing Native Lives Matter movement.

Stephanie Woodard

Feature

How the U.S. Government Is Helping Corporations Plunder Native Land

The Bureau of Indian Affairs is charged with protecting Native interests. Instead, it's letting corporations grab their land for pennies.

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Return to Sender: Navajo Voters Reject Mail-in Voting

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Native American Graphic Novel Selected As Among Year’s Best

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Eve of Destruction: Bureau of Land Management Sacrifices Native Site to Mining Group

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

Going Postal: How All-Mail Voting Thwarts Navajo Voters

Stephanie Woodard

Rural America

In Rare Move, the Justice Department Drafts a Bill of Its Own—To Ensure Native Voting Rights

Stephanie Woodard

InvestigationGoodman Institute

The Missing Native Vote

Nearly 50 years after the Voting Rights Act, American Indians still don't have equal access to the ballot box.

Stephanie Woodard