News & Publications

This week, the focus is on learning more about some of today’s key issues and challenges indigenous people face. We offer a sampling of available information.

Building a New Era of Nation-to-Nation Engagement:

• White House Fact Sheet, November 15, 2021 

Voting Rights and Advancing Equality at the Ballot Box

• Four Directions Vote
• 2021 Native Voting Rights Act

Land and Resources Issues/Environmental Justice

• Native American Rights Fund
• Indigenous Environmental Network
• Environmental Justice and Indian Country
• Tribal Solar Energy Initiatives
• EPA’s Environmental Protection in Indian Country

Violence Against Indigenous Women

• Missing Indigenous Women
• Indian Law Resource Center article: Safe Women, Strong Nations Domestic Violence

Health Care and Health Equity

• Indigenous Peoples Health in the US 
• Native Americans: A Crisis in Health Equity

History of Forced Assimilation

• US Indian Boarding School history

Economic Development

• Efforts to Protect Tribal Ways of Life and Indigenous Knowledge
• Strengthening Native American Communities and Economies