Good Morning, NUNAverse, A new addiction treatment center on the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is making a dent in the proliferation of opioid use on the tribe’s reservation.  Since opening in January of this year, the Cherokee Nation Harm Reduction Program —...

Good Morning, NUNAverse, Peterson Zah, a monumental Navajo Nation leader who guided the tribe through a politically tumultuous era and worked tirelessly to correct wrongdoings against Native people, has died. Zah died last week at a hospital in Fort Defiance,...

Good Morning, NUNAverse, New Mexico’s governor is standing firm in her decision to nominate a former tribal leader who once faced sexual assault charges to head the state’s Indian Affairs Department, fueling anger among Native advocates who have been working...

Good Morning, NUNAverse, The US Marshals Service is teaming up with the Yurok Tribe, based in Northern California, for a new push aimed at addressing cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. The tribe was chosen as the first pilot location for the federal...

Good Morning, NUNAverse, Three tribes have asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to exempt tribal citizens living and working within their own reservations from personal state income taxes. The tribes argue that because Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen Alicia Stroble...

Good Morning, NUNAverse, Senators Brian Schatz from Hawai’i and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska were formally elected as Chair and Vice chair, respectively, of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Both retain the committee positions they held in the 117th...

Good Morning, NUNAverse, The Canadian government has agreed to pay more than $2 billion to hundreds of Indigenous communities to settle a lawsuit centered around nearly a century of abuse suffered by Native children at residential schools. The lawsuit,...

Good Morning, NUNAverse, Last week, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Big Fire Law and Policy Group, filed a lawsuit at the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on behalf of the Winnebago Tribe...