Native News Online delivers important daily news that affects the lives of Native Americans nationwide. | |
Format | online |
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Owner(s) | Indian Country Media, LLC |
Publisher | Levi Rickert (Prairie Band Potawatomi) [1] |
Editor | Elyse Wild [2] |
Founded | 2011 |
Language | English |
City | Grand Rapids, Michigan [1] |
Country | United States |
Sister newspapers | Tribal Business News |
Native News Online [3] is an Indigenous-American focused news publication owned by Indian Country Media Network.
Native News Online was founded in 2011 by current publisher and editor Levi Rickert, a tribal citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, who has covered multiple stories in Indian country as a journalist over many years. [4] [5] The Democracy Fund has described Rickert as "push[ing] ahead to fill his Native News Online website with fresh content seven days a week. [6]
The daily news outlet reports on events and new that has an impact on Indigenous American communities including American Indians, Native Hawaiians, Alaska Native peoples, among others. [7]
Native News Online has been used as an expert source on subjects relevant to the Indigenous people of North America including inter-tribal concerns. [8] [9] [10] Native News Online has been examined in academic case studies of Indigenous journalism as "one of the most-read daily American Indian news publications." [11]
Native News Online is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan. [1]
Senior editor, Elyse Wild won the 2024 Excellence in Recovery Journalism Award for her coverage of Indigenous health equity issues including harm reduction and recovery. Her journalism also focuses on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. [2] [12]
In 2022 URL Media, which represents high-performing BIPOC news outlets selected Native News Online to be the premier publication to join the network. [13] Native News Online was recognized by the Oklahoma Media Center for their work reporting on the largest Supreme Court ruling regarding tribal sovereignty. [14] Bluestem Prairie: News from Greater Minnesota and South Dakota reported on Native News Online's coverage of Indigenous Peoples Day. [15]
Native Americans are the Indigenous peoples of the United States, particularly of the lower 48 states and Alaska. They may also include any Americans whose origins lie in any of the indigenous peoples of North or South America. The United States Census Bureau publishes data about "American Indians and Alaska Natives", whom it defines as anyone "having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America ... and who maintains tribal affiliation or community attachment". The census does not, however, enumerate "Native Americans" as such, noting that the latter term can encompass a broader set of groups, e.g. Native Hawaiians, which it tabulates separately.
The Sauk or Sac are Native Americans and Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands. Their historical territory was near Green Bay, Wisconsin. Today they have three tribes based in Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, and Oklahoma. Their federally recognized tribes are:
An American Indian reservation is an area of land held and governed by a U.S. federal government-recognized Native American tribal nation, whose government is autonomous, subject to regulations passed by the United States Congress and administered by the United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, and not to the U.S. state government in which it is located. Some of the country's 574 federally recognized tribes govern more than one of the 326 Indian reservations in the United States, while some share reservations, and others have no reservation at all. Historical piecemeal land allocations under the Dawes Act facilitated sales to non–Native Americans, resulting in some reservations becoming severely fragmented, with pieces of tribal and privately held land being treated as separate enclaves. This intersection of private and public real estate creates significant administrative, political, and legal difficulties.
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Ada Elizabeth Deer was an American scholar and civil servant who was a member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and a Native American advocate. As an activist she opposed the federal termination of tribes from the 1950s. During the Clinton administration, Deer served as Assistant Secretary of the Interior for Indian Affairs. Due to all of her advocacy and organization on behalf of Native people, she was recognized as a social work pioneer by the National Associate of Social Workers in 2010.
The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) is an American Indian and Alaska Native rights organization. It was founded in 1944 to represent the tribes and resist U.S. federal government pressure for termination of tribal rights and assimilation of their people. These were in contradiction of their treaty rights and status as sovereign entities. The organization continues to be an association of federally recognized and state-recognized Indian tribes.
Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation is a federally recognized tribe of Neshnabé, headquartered near Mayetta, Kansas.
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Summer Wesley, who also goes by Chahta Summer, is an attorney, writer, and activist from Oklahoma. She is a member of the Choctaw Nation.
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Tribal Business News is a digital publication focusing on Native American business and economic development. Founded in 2020, it is a sister publication to Native News Online.
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Jessica Ann Rickert became the first female American Indian dentist in America upon graduating with a DDS from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 1975. She was one of only six women in a class of 140 students. She is a member of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, and a direct descendant of the Indian chief Wahbememe (Whitepigeon).
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