Messages from the Drum

08/11/2025

Indigenous scholars set out eight steps to stop marginalization in academia and to enable a shared Indigenous agenda in science.

08/09/2025

Miccosukee people say the site in the Everglades where the detention center will be built was a historic campsite for their people and is just a few miles from their tribal citizens

08/05/2025

National Park Service employees had to report any signs or books that could be interpreted as anti-American.

08/03/2025

This decision keeps the current fair map in place and safeguards hard-won representation for Native American voters in North Dakota while the Court considers the full case. Importantly, it also protects the voices of all voters in seven states to challenge discriminatory voting laws through Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act (VRA).

The Spirit Lake Tribe, the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, and several individual voters filed an en banc petition urging the full U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit to reconsider a recent decision that stripped voters of their right...

07/30/2025

"It seemed really important to reckon with my own family’s history as settlers, Through this network, I’ve been able to know how to ask the right questions a little better and turn white guilt into reconnection to my family’s white roots.”

The Decolonial Repair Network gathered to consider ways to support land-back efforts in Midwest

07/29/2025

"I’ve been warned my entire life, ‘The FBI’s watching us,’” said Farrell-Smith, a member of the Klamath Tribes in Oregon.

Law enforcement agencies, including the FBI, have collaborated with private security to surveil largely peaceful protesters opposed to the Thacker Pass mine, according to a ProPublica review of thousands of pages of law enforcement communications.

07/29/2025

The fight goes on...

A detention center was built in the Florida Everglades—just 900 feet from sacred Miccosukee ceremonial grounds. There was no environmental review. No tribal ...

07/29/2025

The holy places are rumbling at what is happening in the world.

Apache Stronghold founder (San Carlos Apache) Wendsler Nosie Sr.

In Arizona, copper mining threatens a Western Apache sacred site. Securing domestic energy could cost Native American communities.

07/26/2025

Native Americans in Florida’s Everglades are being displaced again — this time not by colonizers with muskets and treaties, but by Florida’s governor and the razor-wired detention camp now known as “Alligator Alcatraz.”

Native Americans in Florida’s Everglades are being displaced again — this time not by colonizers with muskets and treaties.

07/26/2025

The state Public Utilities Commission said it would investigate and possibly punish a rural electric cooperative after it opposed the Upper Sioux Community’s solar project.

07/25/2025

Minnesota's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office is launching a tip program to help advance their investigations. Tips can remain anonymous, and the amount given is determined by local law enforcement.

Minnesota's Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives Office is launching a tip program to help advance their investigations.