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Alaska Native candidate for US House seat emerges as contender
 
Hualapai Tribal Council passes data center moratorium on reservation
 
On this day 300 years ago, 3 Nations sign agreement with British King

Alaska Native candidate for US House seat emerges as contender Hualapai Tribal Council passes data center moratorium on reservation On this day 300 years ago, 3 Nations sign agreement with British King

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Alaska Native candidate for US House seat emerges as contender
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On this day 300 years ago, 3 Nations sign agreement with British King

Monday, September 14, 2026

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Native team beats heat to win World Series in debut

Native team beats heat to win World Series in debut

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Native team beats heat to win World Series in debut

Monday, September 7, 2026

<a href="https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-october-1-2026/" title="Thursday, October 1, 2026" rel="nofollow"><img width="300" height="225" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092946/22042455_4c9a6c793d_k-300x225.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 20px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092946/22042455_4c9a6c793d_k-300x225.jpg 300w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092946/22042455_4c9a6c793d_k-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092946/22042455_4c9a6c793d_k-768x576.jpg 768w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092946/22042455_4c9a6c793d_k-1536x1152.jpg 1536w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092946/22042455_4c9a6c793d_k.jpg 2048w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Photo: Revillagigedo Island in Alaska where the old-growth forest plan is facing objections from KIC. (Anita Gould / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" class="wp-links-icon">Flickr</a>)
Ketchikan Indian Community and two conservation groups are asking a federal court to halt an old-growth timber sale in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.
The Shelter Cove sale offers about 4 million board feet of timber as part of the larger South Revilla project near Ketchikan.
The groups argue logging would harm subsistence resources, wildlife. and remaining old-growth forest.
KIC President Gloria Burns says Indigenous knowledge cannot be treated as an afterthought in decisions about Tribal homelands.
The groups are seeking an injunction while the court considers their broader lawsuit challenging the South Revilla project.
Bids for the timber sale are scheduled to open October 20.
<div id="attachment_38370" style="width: 1930px" class="wp-caption alignleft"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-38370" class="wp-image-38370 size-full" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092931/2-Tesuque_Casino.jpg" alt="" width="1920" height="750" srcset="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092931/2-Tesuque_Casino.jpg 1920w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092931/2-Tesuque_Casino-300x117.jpg 300w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092931/2-Tesuque_Casino-1024x400.jpg 1024w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092931/2-Tesuque_Casino-768x300.jpg 768w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/01092931/2-Tesuque_Casino-1536x600.jpg 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px" />Tesuque Casino in Santa Fe, N.M. (Courtesy Tesuque Casino)</div>
Prediction markets are becoming an issue for Native American tribes who argue they are threatening their gaming revenues and thus their ability to fund vital services.
As KUNM’s <a href="https://www.kunm.org/people/jeanette-dedios" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" class="wp-links-icon">Jeanette DeDios</a> (Jicarilla Apache and Diné) reports, New Mexico tribes and state lawmakers are looking at taxing them.
Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are online platforms where people wager bets on an outcome around future real-world events, like sports or elections, but because of the way they are regulated they do not usually pay taxes to states.
Tribal gaming in New Mexico, however, contributed over $151 million to the state’s general fund in the last fiscal year.
Tribes fear that prediction markets will lead people away from gambling in tribal casinos to online markets, which people can access on their phones while on tribal lands. and tribal officials say that is a violation of the gaming rights they negotiated with the state as sovereign governments.
Tribes also use those revenues for things like early education programs, housing, and healthcare.
During a meeting of the Indian Affairs Interim Committee last week, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Eugenia Charles-Newton describes how prediction markets are also targeting minors to bet.
Right now, with prediction markets, we know that a 10-year-old standing next to the sheep camp, they can go onto a website and they can wager a bet.
Prediction market websites are classified as federal financial exchanges rather than traditional gambling platforms, which allows them to market to people 18 and older. With weak age verification on social media, minors have been reported making wagers.
Prediction markets currently exist in a legal gray area and gaming officials want the state to tax them, but lawmakers raised concerns. Those include whether taxes would affect current gaming compacts, how online activity would be tracked on tribal lands, and who would collect revenue.
The Mescalero Apache, along with Isleta, Pojoaque, and Sandia pueblos are suing Kalshi. The New Mexico Attorney General also filed suit in June.
They are among a number of lawsuits across the country against the platforms. In response, the federal government is suing New Mexico to block the state from enforcing its gambling laws against prediction markets.
<div id="attachment_29608" style="width: 1034px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-29608" class="wp-image-29608 size-full" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/29094400/110320nevadavoting-p-1024x768-1.jpg" alt="" width="1024" height="768" srcset="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/29094400/110320nevadavoting-p-1024x768-1.jpg 1024w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/29094400/110320nevadavoting-p-1024x768-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/29094400/110320nevadavoting-p-1024x768-1-768x576.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px" />(Courtesy Native Voters Alliance Nevada)</div>
Voting disparities have deep roots for people of color and new research shows New Mexico’s Native voters are likely to face numerous roadblocks at the November ballot box.
<a href="https://www.publicnewsservice.org/staff/657216e4-f806-4979-a339-238d6d9a0acf" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" class="wp-links-icon">Roz Brown</a> has more.
Native voters in New Mexico face many barriers to voting, including disproportionately high rejections for voter registration and mail-in ballots.
The new Native American Rights Fund and Blockwell Consulting report, “Obstacles Persist”, analyzes data collected by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from the 2020, 2022, and 2024 general elections.
The report found rejected voter registration applications increased by an average of 200% in counties where Native Americans make up at least a quarter of the population.
Senior staff attorney Allison Neswood says the report confirms what Native communities have long known to be true.
“Their registration is getting denied, their ballots [are] getting rejected, and all of this really adds up to the systemic disenfranchisement of our people in our own homelands.”
The report also outlines how disruptions at the U.S. Postal Service had a significant impact on Native voters. Even as overall mail-in voting numbers declined between 2020 and 2024, the rejection rate of ballots in areas with larger Native populations increased by 134%.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order, calling on the Postal Service to oversee mail-in ballots, a move plaintiffs successfully argued would have severely restricted voting by mail.
The report’s recommendations include expanding automatic and same-day registration to areas with larger Native populations, and paying poll workers comparable wages.
Neswood says more investment is needed for voting infrastructure in Indian Country.
“Making sure that our Native communities have polling locations in a reasonable distance from where they live, making sure they have registration opportunities, making sure that they can participate in mail voting.”
The study focused on counties with high Native populations, including Cibola, McKinley, and San Juan counties in New Mexico along with Apache and Navajo counties in Arizona.
Research by the Brennan Center in 2024 found voters of color are more likely to turn out when they live in jurisdictions where their ethnic group is the majority.
 
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Photo: Revillagigedo Island in Alaska where the old-growth forest plan is facing objections from KIC. (Anita Gould / Flickr) Ketchikan Indian Community and two conservation groups are asking a federal court to halt an old-growth timber sale in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. The Shelter Cove sale offers about 4 million board feet of timber as part of the larger South Revilla project near Ketchikan. The groups argue logging would harm subsistence resources, wildlife. and remaining old-growth forest. KIC President Gloria Burns says Indigenous knowledge cannot be treated as an afterthought in decisions about Tribal homelands. The groups are seeking an injunction while the court considers their broader lawsuit challenging the South Revilla project. Bids for the timber sale are scheduled to open October 20. Tesuque Casino in Santa Fe, N.M. (Courtesy Tesuque Casino) Prediction markets are becoming an issue for Native American tribes who argue they are threatening their gaming revenues and thus their ability to fund vital services. As KUNM’s Jeanette DeDios (Jicarilla Apache and Diné) reports, New Mexico tribes and state lawmakers are looking at taxing them. Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are online platforms where people wager bets on an outcome around future real-world events, like sports or elections, but because of the way they are regulated they do not usually pay taxes to states. Tribal gaming in New Mexico, however, contributed over $151 million to the state’s general fund in the last fiscal year. Tribes fear that prediction markets will lead people away from gambling in tribal casinos to online markets, which people can access on their phones while on tribal lands. and tribal officials say that is a violation of the gaming rights they negotiated with the state as sovereign governments. Tribes also use those revenues for things like early education programs, housing, and healthcare. During a meeting of the Indian Affairs Interim Committee last week, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Eugenia Charles-Newton describes how prediction markets are also targeting minors to bet. Right now, with prediction markets, we know that a 10-year-old standing next to the sheep camp, they can go onto a website and they can wager a bet. Prediction market websites are classified as federal financial exchanges rather than traditional gambling platforms, which allows them to market to people 18 and older. With weak age verification on social media, minors have been reported making wagers. Prediction markets currently exist in a legal gray area and gaming officials want the state to tax them, but lawmakers raised concerns. Those include whether taxes would affect current gaming compacts, how online activity would be tracked on tribal lands, and who would collect revenue. The Mescalero Apache, along with Isleta, Pojoaque, and Sandia pueblos are suing Kalshi. The New Mexico Attorney General also filed suit in June. They are among a number of lawsuits across the country against the platforms. In response, the federal government is suing New Mexico to block the state from enforcing its gambling laws against prediction markets. (Courtesy Native Voters Alliance Nevada) Voting disparities have deep roots for people of color and new research shows New Mexico’s Native voters are likely to face numerous roadblocks at the November ballot box. Roz Brown has more. Native voters in New Mexico face many barriers to voting, including disproportionately high rejections for voter registration and mail-in ballots. The new Native American Rights Fund and Blockwell Consulting report, “Obstacles Persist”, analyzes data collected by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from the 2020, 2022, and 2024 general elections. The report found rejected voter registration applications increased by an average of 200% in counties where Native Americans make up at least a quarter of the population. Senior staff attorney Allison Neswood says the report confirms what Native communities have long known to be true. “Their registration is getting denied, their ballots [are] getting rejected, and all of this really adds up to the systemic disenfranchisement of our people in our own homelands.” The report also outlines how disruptions at the U.S. Postal Service had a significant impact on Native voters. Even as overall mail-in voting numbers declined between 2020 and 2024, the rejection rate of ballots in areas with larger Native populations increased by 134%. Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order, calling on the Postal Service to oversee mail-in ballots, a move plaintiffs successfully argued would have severely restricted voting by mail. The report’s recommendations include expanding automatic and same-day registration to areas with larger Native populations, and paying poll workers comparable wages. Neswood says more investment is needed for voting infrastructure in Indian Country. “Making sure that our Native communities have polling locations in a reasonable distance from where they live, making sure they have registration opportunities, making sure that they can participate in mail voting.” The study focused on counties with high Native populations, including Cibola, McKinley, and San Juan counties in New Mexico along with Apache and Navajo counties in Arizona. Research by the Brennan Center in 2024 found voters of color are more likely to turn out when they live in jurisdictions where their ethnic group is the majority. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. 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<a href="https://www.nativenews.net/thursday-october-1-2026/" title="Thursday, October 1, 2026" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Photo: Revillagigedo Island in Alaska where the old-growth forest plan is facing objections from KIC. (Anita Gould / <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.0/deed.en" rel="noopener noreferrer">Flickr</a>)
Ketchikan Indian Community and two conservation groups are asking a federal court to halt an old-growth timber sale in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.
The Shelter Cove sale offers about 4 million board feet of timber as part of the larger South Revilla project near Ketchikan.
The groups argue logging would harm subsistence resources, wildlife. and remaining old-growth forest.
KIC&nbsp;President Gloria Burns says Indigenous knowledge cannot be treated as an afterthought in decisions about Tribal homelands.
The groups are seeking an injunction while the court considers their broader lawsuit challenging the South Revilla project.
Bids for the timber sale are scheduled to open October 20.
Tesuque Casino in Santa Fe, N.M. (Courtesy Tesuque Casino)
Prediction markets are becoming an issue for Native American tribes who argue they are threatening their gaming revenues and thus their ability to fund vital services.
As KUNM’s <a href="https://www.kunm.org/people/jeanette-dedios" rel="noopener noreferrer">Jeanette DeDios</a> (Jicarilla Apache and Diné) reports, New Mexico tribes and state lawmakers are looking at taxing them.
Prediction markets like Kalshi and Polymarket are online platforms where people wager bets on an outcome around future real-world events, like sports or elections, but because of the way they are regulated they do not usually pay taxes to states.
Tribal gaming in New Mexico, however, contributed over $151 million to the state’s general fund in the last fiscal year.
Tribes fear that prediction markets will lead people away from gambling in tribal casinos to online markets, which people can access on their phones while on tribal lands. and tribal officials say that is a violation of the gaming rights they negotiated with the state as sovereign governments.
Tribes also use those revenues for things like early education programs, housing, and healthcare.
During a meeting of the Indian Affairs Interim Committee last week, Navajo Nation Council Delegate Eugenia Charles-Newton describes how prediction markets are also targeting minors to bet.
Right now, with prediction markets, we know that a 10-year-old standing next to the sheep camp, they can go onto a website and they can wager a bet.
Prediction market websites are classified as federal financial exchanges rather than traditional gambling platforms, which allows them to market to people 18 and older. With weak age verification on social media, minors have been reported making wagers.
Prediction markets currently exist in a legal gray area and gaming officials want the state to tax them, but lawmakers raised concerns. Those include whether taxes would affect current gaming compacts, how online activity would be tracked on tribal lands, and who would collect revenue.
The Mescalero Apache, along with Isleta, Pojoaque, and Sandia pueblos are suing Kalshi. The New Mexico Attorney General also filed suit in June.
They are among a number of lawsuits across the country against the platforms. In response, the federal government is suing New Mexico to block the state from enforcing its gambling laws against prediction markets.
(Courtesy Native Voters Alliance Nevada)
Voting disparities have deep roots for people of color and new research shows New Mexico’s Native voters are likely to face numerous roadblocks at the November ballot box.
<a href="https://www.publicnewsservice.org/staff/657216e4-f806-4979-a339-238d6d9a0acf" rel="noopener noreferrer">Roz Brown</a> has more.
Native voters in New Mexico face many barriers to voting, including disproportionately high rejections for voter registration and mail-in ballots.
The new Native American Rights Fund and Blockwell Consulting report, “Obstacles Persist”, analyzes data collected by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from the 2020, 2022, and 2024 general elections.
The report found rejected voter registration applications increased by an average of 200% in counties where Native Americans make up at least a quarter of the population.
Senior staff attorney Allison Neswood says the report confirms what Native communities have long known to be true.
“Their registration is getting denied, their ballots [are] getting rejected, and all of this really adds up to the systemic disenfranchisement of our people in our own homelands.”
The report also outlines how disruptions at the U.S. Postal Service had a significant impact on Native voters. Even as overall mail-in voting numbers declined between 2020 and 2024, the rejection rate of ballots in areas with larger Native populations increased by 134%.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order, calling on the Postal Service to oversee mail-in ballots, a move plaintiffs successfully argued would have severely restricted voting by mail.
The report’s recommendations include expanding automatic and same-day registration to areas with larger Native populations, and paying poll workers comparable wages.
Neswood says more investment is needed for voting infrastructure in Indian Country.
“Making sure that our Native communities have polling locations in a reasonable distance from where they live, making sure they have registration opportunities, making sure that they can participate in mail voting.”
The study focused on counties with high Native populations, including Cibola, McKinley, and San Juan counties in New Mexico along with Apache and Navajo counties in Arizona.
Research by the Brennan Center in 2024 found voters of color are more likely to turn out when they live in jurisdictions where their ethnic group is the majority.
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Thursday, October 1, 2026

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Canadian political leaders are condemning a white nationalist demonstration on Indigenous land in British Columbia as “despicable”.
As <a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/dan-karpenchuk-4591733b" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" class="wp-links-icon">Dan Karpenchuk</a> reports, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are now investigating the incident.
<div id="attachment_38366" style="width: 184px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-38366" class="size-medium wp-image-38366" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30093701/got-bones-sign-174x300.jpg" alt="" width="174" height="300" srcset="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30093701/got-bones-sign-174x300.jpg 174w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30093701/got-bones-sign.jpg 508w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 174px) 100vw, 174px" />(Courtesy Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc)</div>
The group displayed a sign near a former Residential school that appeared to question the existence of children’s remains.
Their demonstration took place on land belonging to the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve near Kamloops.
Police were called and members of the group, wearing masks, moved on through the city of Kamloops.
Police officials say they take the matter seriously and are investigating.
British Columbia is in the middle of a provincial election campaign and New Democratic party leader David Eby condemned the demonstration as disgusting.
“This isn’t who we are as British Columbians. And we have seen a rise in hate, we have a rise in this kind of white nationalist behaviour in the province. So we got to do more to fight it.”
The province’s Conservative party leader Lorne Doerkson also voiced is disapproval.
“What happened yesterday, it was appalling and I hope that our law enforcement does everything they can, and everything that is available to them, to make sure that events like that do not happen in our province.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney called the demonstration both cowardly and abhorrent adding that it had no place in this country.
In a statement, Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosaenne Casimir said it was deeply concerning. She said the safety and well being of band members is a priority, adding that her people had a right to feel safe in their homes and in their community.
According to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, a white nationalist group called The Second Sons views violence as necessary and inevitable to defend their movement, attack opposition, and ethnically cleanse Canada.
<div id="attachment_38365" style="width: 1770px" class="wp-caption aligncenter"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-38365" class="wp-image-38365 size-full" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30093616/donlin-mine-project.jpg" alt="" width="1760" height="1176" srcset="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30093616/donlin-mine-project.jpg 1760w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30093616/donlin-mine-project-300x200.jpg 300w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30093616/donlin-mine-project-1024x684.jpg 1024w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30093616/donlin-mine-project-768x513.jpg 768w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/30093616/donlin-mine-project-1536x1026.jpg 1536w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1760px) 100vw, 1760px" />(Photo: Dean Swope / KYUK)</div>
The draft of a supplemental report for the possible environmental impact of Alaska’s proposed Donlin Gold Mine was released for public comment this week.
A federal court judge last year required the mine project to reexamine some of those impacts, particularly a larger spill scenario.
KYUK’s <a href="https://www.kyuk.org/people/samantha-watson" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" class="wp-links-icon">Samantha Watson</a> reports on its findings.
The 2025 court order hinged on the possible environmental impact of the dam that would hold back waste from the proposed Donlin Gold mine project, called a tailings dam.
Donlin Gold plans for the construction of a dam taller than the great pyramid of Giza, with capacity to contain millions of tons of production waste.
It has been a focal point for regional opposition to the mine. Many locals have expressed fear about the possible contamination of the nearby land, communities, and the Kuskokwim River should that dam leak, or fail.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers examined potential environmental impacts of the project to inform the federal permitting process. The agency’s 2018 environmental assessment of the project, which was used to permit the proposed mine. modeled a spill of just 0.5% of the tailings dam’s contents.
But Bethel’s Orutsararmiut Native Council argued in federal court that the Army Corps should have considered the chance of a much larger spill. A federal judge agreed on that point.
This week, a draft of that court-ordered report was released for public comment. It examines a spill of 27% of the dam’s contents into the land and waterways surrounding the mine site on the middle Kuskokwim River.
In that catastrophic scenario, the Army Corps’ draft report says a spill could devastate fish habitats and aquatic activity in Crooked Creek, a community about ten miles from the proposed mine site, for decades.
Thousands of acres of wetlands and streams would be buried or eroded.
A spill that large would expose the people in Crooked Creek to contaminants, potentially displace members of the community, or even kill people, the report says.
Donlin Gold said in a written statement last Wednesday that it takes the report seriously.
The company also maintains that “the supplemental review does not mean the risk of a tailings release has increased, nor does it represent a change to the proposed tailings storage facility design.”
In a statement also released last Wednesday, the law firm Earthjustice, which represents tribal opposition to the proposed mine, said that the supplemental environmental review still falls short.
They argue that 27% is still a small percentage of what could be released. They want to see modifications to the design of the tailings dam.
The draft report now enters a 30-day comment period.
 
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Photo courtesy Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Canadian political leaders are condemning a white nationalist demonstration on Indigenous land in British Columbia as “despicable”. As Dan Karpenchuk reports, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are now investigating the incident. (Courtesy Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc) The group displayed a sign near a former Residential school that appeared to question the existence of children’s remains. Their demonstration took place on land belonging to the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve near Kamloops. Police were called and members of the group, wearing masks, moved on through the city of Kamloops. Police officials say they take the matter seriously and are investigating. British Columbia is in the middle of a provincial election campaign and New Democratic party leader David Eby condemned the demonstration as disgusting. “This isn’t who we are as British Columbians. And we have seen a rise in hate, we have a rise in this kind of white nationalist behaviour in the province. So we got to do more to fight it.” The province’s Conservative party leader Lorne Doerkson also voiced is disapproval. “What happened yesterday, it was appalling and I hope that our law enforcement does everything they can, and everything that is available to them, to make sure that events like that do not happen in our province.” Prime Minister Mark Carney called the demonstration both cowardly and abhorrent adding that it had no place in this country. In a statement, Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosaenne Casimir said it was deeply concerning. She said the safety and well being of band members is a priority, adding that her people had a right to feel safe in their homes and in their community. According to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, a white nationalist group called The Second Sons views violence as necessary and inevitable to defend their movement, attack opposition, and ethnically cleanse Canada. (Photo: Dean Swope / KYUK) The draft of a supplemental report for the possible environmental impact of Alaska’s proposed Donlin Gold Mine was released for public comment this week. A federal court judge last year required the mine project to reexamine some of those impacts, particularly a larger spill scenario. KYUK’s Samantha Watson reports on its findings. The 2025 court order hinged on the possible environmental impact of the dam that would hold back waste from the proposed Donlin Gold mine project, called a tailings dam. Donlin Gold plans for the construction of a dam taller than the great pyramid of Giza, with capacity to contain millions of tons of production waste. It has been a focal point for regional opposition to the mine. Many locals have expressed fear about the possible contamination of the nearby land, communities, and the Kuskokwim River should that dam leak, or fail. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers examined potential environmental impacts of the project to inform the federal permitting process. The agency’s 2018 environmental assessment of the project, which was used to permit the proposed mine. modeled a spill of just 0.5% of the tailings dam’s contents. But Bethel’s Orutsararmiut Native Council argued in federal court that the Army Corps should have considered the chance of a much larger spill. A federal judge agreed on that point. This week, a draft of that court-ordered report was released for public comment. It examines a spill of 27% of the dam’s contents into the land and waterways surrounding the mine site on the middle Kuskokwim River. In that catastrophic scenario, the Army Corps’ draft report says a spill could devastate fish habitats and aquatic activity in Crooked Creek, a community about ten miles from the proposed mine site, for decades. Thousands of acres of wetlands and streams would be buried or eroded. A spill that large would expose the people in Crooked Creek to contaminants, potentially displace members of the community, or even kill people, the report says. Donlin Gold said in a written statement last Wednesday that it takes the report seriously. The company also maintains that “the supplemental review does not mean the risk of a tailings release has increased, nor does it represent a change to the proposed tailings storage facility design.” In a statement also released last Wednesday, the law firm Earthjustice, which represents tribal opposition to the proposed mine, said that the supplemental environmental review still falls short. They argue that 27% is still a small percentage of what could be released. They want to see modifications to the design of the tailings dam. The draft report now enters a 30-day comment period. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode Wednesday, September 30, 2026 — The Menu: Blue corn children’s book and a new Native pastry shop

<a href="https://www.nativenews.net/wednesday-september-30-2026/" title="Wednesday, September 30, 2026" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Photo courtesy Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc
Canadian political leaders are condemning a white nationalist demonstration on Indigenous land in British Columbia as “despicable”.
As <a href="https://ca.linkedin.com/in/dan-karpenchuk-4591733b" rel="noopener noreferrer">Dan Karpenchuk</a> reports, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police are now investigating the incident.
(Courtesy Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc)
The group displayed a sign near a former Residential school that appeared to question the existence of children’s remains.
Their demonstration took place on land belonging to the Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc reserve near Kamloops.
Police were called and members of the group, wearing masks, moved on through the city of Kamloops.
Police officials say they take the matter seriously and are investigating.
British Columbia is in the middle of a provincial election campaign and New Democratic party leader David Eby condemned the demonstration as disgusting.
“This isn’t who we are as British Columbians. And we have seen a rise in hate, we have a rise in this kind of white nationalist behaviour in the province. So we got to do more to fight it.”
The province’s Conservative party leader Lorne Doerkson also voiced is disapproval.
“What happened yesterday, it was appalling and I hope that our law enforcement does everything they can, and everything that is available to them, to make sure that events like that do not happen in our province.”
Prime Minister Mark Carney called the demonstration both cowardly and abhorrent adding that it had no place in this country.
In a statement, Tkʼemlúps te Secwépemc Chief Rosaenne Casimir said it was deeply concerning. She said the safety and well being of band members is a priority, adding that her people had a right to feel safe in their homes and in their community.
According to the Canadian Anti-Hate Network, a white nationalist group called The Second Sons views violence as necessary and inevitable to defend their movement, attack opposition, and ethnically cleanse Canada.
(Photo: Dean Swope / KYUK)
The draft of a supplemental report for the possible environmental impact of Alaska’s proposed Donlin Gold Mine was released for public comment this week.
A federal court judge last year required the mine project to reexamine some of those impacts, particularly a larger spill scenario.
KYUK’s <a href="https://www.kyuk.org/people/samantha-watson" rel="noopener noreferrer">Samantha Watson</a> reports on its findings.
The 2025 court order hinged on the possible environmental impact of the dam that would hold back waste from the proposed Donlin Gold mine project, called a tailings dam.
Donlin Gold plans for the construction of a dam taller than the great pyramid of Giza, with capacity to contain millions of tons of production waste.
It has been a focal point for regional opposition to the mine. Many locals have expressed fear about the possible contamination of the nearby land, communities, and the Kuskokwim River should that dam leak, or fail.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers examined potential environmental impacts of the project to inform the federal permitting process. The agency’s 2018 environmental assessment of the project, which was used to permit the proposed mine. modeled a spill of just 0.5% of the tailings dam’s contents.
But Bethel’s Orutsararmiut Native Council argued in federal court that the Army Corps should have considered the chance of a much larger spill. A federal judge agreed on that point.
This week, a draft of that court-ordered report was released for public comment. It examines a spill of 27% of the dam’s contents into the land and waterways surrounding the mine site on the middle Kuskokwim River.
In that catastrophic scenario, the Army Corps’ draft report says a spill could devastate fish habitats and aquatic activity in Crooked Creek, a community about ten miles from the proposed mine site, for decades.
Thousands of acres of wetlands and streams would be buried or eroded.
A spill that large would expose the people in Crooked Creek to contaminants, potentially displace members of the community, or even kill people, the report says.
Donlin Gold said in a written statement last Wednesday that it takes the report seriously.
The company also maintains that “the supplemental review does not mean the risk of a tailings release has increased, nor does it represent a change to the proposed tailings storage facility design.”
In a statement also released last Wednesday, the law firm Earthjustice, which represents tribal opposition to the proposed mine, said that the supplemental environmental review still falls short.
They argue that 27% is still a small percentage of what could be released. They want to see modifications to the design of the tailings dam.
The draft report now enters a 30-day comment period.
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<a href="https://www.nativenews.net/tuesday-september-29-2026/" title="Tuesday, September 29, 2026" rel="nofollow"><img width="300" height="158" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29051002/native-d410c707-300x158.jpg" class="webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image" alt="" style="float: left; margin-right: 20px;" link_thumbnail="1" decoding="async" loading="lazy" srcset="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29051002/native-d410c707-300x158.jpg 300w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29051002/native-d410c707-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29051002/native-d410c707-768x403.jpg 768w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29051002/native-d410c707.jpg 1500w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px" /></a>Photo: The Alaska Federation of Natives educates young people in Indigenous villages about the importance of voting in every election. (Michelle Sparck / AFN)
Alaska Native leaders are working to bring back the power of the state’s Indigenous voters.
In a state where one in four voters is Native, Tribal leaders say that inaccessible geography and information gaps have combined to reduce the potency of Indigenous voices.
What was once a powerful voting bloc has weakened over the years as younger generations have become less politically active, as <a href="https://www.publicnewsservice.org/staff/d410c707-a01b-4dd6-a2c3-62e2159d3fff" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" class="wp-links-icon">Mark Moran</a> reports.
As recently as 1982, Indigenous people wielded substantial power at the polls – some villages even had voter turnout as high as 80%. That number has fallen drastically, now hovering at closer to 30%.
Michelle Sparck, director of Get Out Native Vote for Alaska Federation of Natives, says Indigenous leaders are encouraging Native villagers to carry on the tradition of democracy established by their elders.
“How difficult is it to convince a dozen of your friends and neighbors in a small community to invest in making informed decisions, and testimony, and willingness to serve? And that’s what we’re asking our people to do, is reflect on our history.”
Sparck says Alaska’s Indigenous population prefers to cast its vote in person rather than by mail, which can often be difficult due to geography, health issues or a lack of polling places. But even if voting by mail, postal service can often be interrupted by severe weather.
There is also limited access to Alaskan communities that can only be reached by boat or plane.
The Alaska Federation of Natives has worked in schools to teach young people about civics and government.
The organization also travels to villages to encourage young people to re-awaken the power of voting.
“We have so much political power. We have an ability to shape Alaska’s government in our own image, and we just need to own that power again, just like our elders did.”
Indigenous villages are also facing a shortage of poll workers, especially in the most remote regions of the state, or physical polling places that were never open at all in recent elections – including in Shaktoolik, Diomede, and Kobuk in northwest and western Alaska.
Federal officials are also working to build practices to best communicate with Indigenous villagers, and help them exercise their right to vote.
<div id="attachment_38358" style="width: 1450px" class="wp-caption alignright"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" aria-describedby="caption-attachment-38358" class="size-full wp-image-38358" src="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29050957/mnindianwomensresourcecentercover-e3d12664.jpg" alt="" width="1440" height="756" srcset="https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29050957/mnindianwomensresourcecentercover-e3d12664.jpg 1440w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29050957/mnindianwomensresourcecentercover-e3d12664-300x158.jpg 300w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29050957/mnindianwomensresourcecentercover-e3d12664-1024x538.jpg 1024w, https://nativenews-offload-media.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/29050957/mnindianwomensresourcecentercover-e3d12664-768x403.jpg 768w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 1440px) 100vw, 1440px" />Organizations like the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center in south Minneapolis offer supportive housing that helps urban Native Americans access culturally responsive healthcare, social, and recreational services as they overcome obstacles in their lives. (Courtesy MIWRC)</div>
Ending longstanding disparities for Native Americans is not just limited to reservations.
A lack of access to affordable, stable housing is an issue felt across Minnesota. Support organizations working with Indigenous populations in Minneapolis say they are working through a maze of complications, as <a href="https://www.publicnewsservice.org/staff/e3d12664-0572-4734-92ad-3d3777191c4b" target="_blank" rel="external nofollow" class="wp-links-icon">Mike Moen</a> reports.
Minneapolis is home to one of the largest concentrations of urban Native Americans in the United States with a key cultural corridor on the city’s south side.
The American Indian Community Development Corporation offers programs addressing housing and homelessness in the area.
Executive Director Travis Earth-Werner says the support system has had a lot to contend with recently.
“The opioid epidemic, the pandemic, all these events that have occurred throughout, you know, the last ten years [have] escalated homelessness, poverty. There’s a lot of first-time homeless individuals.”
His nonprofit has about 500 units available for Native Americans overcoming substance use disorders and other challenges so they can maintain their housing, but Earth-Werner says resources are stretched thin, with added concerns about possible federal cuts on the horizon. And he says there are still gaps to fill for needs like sober housing options.
In communities all over, Earth-Werner says everybody wants to add affordable housing development to meet demand, but he says to stay in those units, people need good paying jobs that do not always require a long list of education credentials.
And for areas with unique needs, he says groups on the ground need all the outside support they can get so that staff members can stay mission focused.
“It takes people with a lot of hard work to work with individuals and progress them forward when often there’s a lot of hopelessness involved.”
Ruth Buffalo, president of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, echoes thoughts about having strong supportive services to go alongside any new housing development.
In this part of South Minneapolis, she says public safety feels like an afterthought, with drug dealing and other criminal activity making it hard for American Indians to go about their daily lives.
“Our most vulnerable are really trying hard to make a new path forward, but they can just go right outside and there’s predators lurking.”
The Women’s Resource Center recently opened its 24-unit supportive housing building called Oshki-Gakeyaa, or New Way.
The city contributed funding to that effort, but on a larger scale, Buffalo says policymakers need to listen to what residents want in crafting solutions, like housing they can afford.
 
 
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Photo: The Alaska Federation of Natives educates young people in Indigenous villages about the importance of voting in every election. (Michelle Sparck / AFN) Alaska Native leaders are working to bring back the power of the state’s Indigenous voters. In a state where one in four voters is Native, Tribal leaders say that inaccessible geography and information gaps have combined to reduce the potency of Indigenous voices. What was once a powerful voting bloc has weakened over the years as younger generations have become less politically active, as Mark Moran reports. As recently as 1982, Indigenous people wielded substantial power at the polls – some villages even had voter turnout as high as 80%. That number has fallen drastically, now hovering at closer to 30%. Michelle Sparck, director of Get Out Native Vote for Alaska Federation of Natives, says Indigenous leaders are encouraging Native villagers to carry on the tradition of democracy established by their elders. “How difficult is it to convince a dozen of your friends and neighbors in a small community to invest in making informed decisions, and testimony, and willingness to serve? And that’s what we’re asking our people to do, is reflect on our history.” Sparck says Alaska’s Indigenous population prefers to cast its vote in person rather than by mail, which can often be difficult due to geography, health issues or a lack of polling places. But even if voting by mail, postal service can often be interrupted by severe weather. There is also limited access to Alaskan communities that can only be reached by boat or plane. The Alaska Federation of Natives has worked in schools to teach young people about civics and government. The organization also travels to villages to encourage young people to re-awaken the power of voting. “We have so much political power. We have an ability to shape Alaska’s government in our own image, and we just need to own that power again, just like our elders did.” Indigenous villages are also facing a shortage of poll workers, especially in the most remote regions of the state, or physical polling places that were never open at all in recent elections – including in Shaktoolik, Diomede, and Kobuk in northwest and western Alaska. Federal officials are also working to build practices to best communicate with Indigenous villagers, and help them exercise their right to vote. Organizations like the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center in south Minneapolis offer supportive housing that helps urban Native Americans access culturally responsive healthcare, social, and recreational services as they overcome obstacles in their lives. (Courtesy MIWRC) Ending longstanding disparities for Native Americans is not just limited to reservations. A lack of access to affordable, stable housing is an issue felt across Minnesota. Support organizations working with Indigenous populations in Minneapolis say they are working through a maze of complications, as Mike Moen reports. Minneapolis is home to one of the largest concentrations of urban Native Americans in the United States with a key cultural corridor on the city’s south side. The American Indian Community Development Corporation offers programs addressing housing and homelessness in the area. Executive Director Travis Earth-Werner says the support system has had a lot to contend with recently. “The opioid epidemic, the pandemic, all these events that have occurred throughout, you know, the last ten years [have] escalated homelessness, poverty. There’s a lot of first-time homeless individuals.” His nonprofit has about 500 units available for Native Americans overcoming substance use disorders and other challenges so they can maintain their housing, but Earth-Werner says resources are stretched thin, with added concerns about possible federal cuts on the horizon. And he says there are still gaps to fill for needs like sober housing options. In communities all over, Earth-Werner says everybody wants to add affordable housing development to meet demand, but he says to stay in those units, people need good paying jobs that do not always require a long list of education credentials. And for areas with unique needs, he says groups on the ground need all the outside support they can get so that staff members can stay mission focused. “It takes people with a lot of hard work to work with individuals and progress them forward when often there’s a lot of hopelessness involved.” Ruth Buffalo, president of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, echoes thoughts about having strong supportive services to go alongside any new housing development. In this part of South Minneapolis, she says public safety feels like an afterthought, with drug dealing and other criminal activity making it hard for American Indians to go about their daily lives. “Our most vulnerable are really trying hard to make a new path forward, but they can just go right outside and there’s predators lurking.” The Women’s Resource Center recently opened its 24-unit supportive housing building called Oshki-Gakeyaa, or New Way. The city contributed funding to that effort, but on a larger scale, Buffalo says policymakers need to listen to what residents want in crafting solutions, like housing they can afford. Get National Native News delivered to your inbox daily. Sign up for our daily newsletter today. Download our NV1 Android or iOs App for breaking news alerts. Check out today’s Native America Calling episode

<a href="https://www.nativenews.net/tuesday-september-29-2026/" title="Tuesday, September 29, 2026" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a>Photo: The Alaska Federation of Natives educates young people in Indigenous villages about the importance of voting in every election. (Michelle Sparck / AFN)
Alaska Native leaders are working to bring back the power of the state’s Indigenous voters.
In a state where one in four voters is Native, Tribal leaders say that inaccessible geography and information gaps have combined to reduce the potency of Indigenous voices.
What was once a powerful voting bloc has weakened over the years as younger generations have become less politically active, as <a href="https://www.publicnewsservice.org/staff/d410c707-a01b-4dd6-a2c3-62e2159d3fff" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mark Moran</a> reports.
As recently as 1982, Indigenous people wielded substantial power at the polls – some villages even had voter turnout as high as 80%. That number has fallen drastically, now hovering at closer to 30%.
Michelle Sparck, director of Get Out Native Vote for Alaska Federation of Natives, says Indigenous leaders are encouraging Native villagers to carry on the tradition of democracy established by their elders.
“How difficult is it to convince a dozen of your friends and neighbors in a small community to invest in making informed decisions, and testimony, and willingness to serve? And that’s what we’re asking our people to do, is reflect on our history.”
Sparck says Alaska’s Indigenous population prefers to cast its vote in person rather than by mail, which can often be difficult due to geography, health issues or a lack of polling places. But even if voting by mail, postal service can often be interrupted by severe weather.
There is also limited access to Alaskan communities that can only be reached by boat or plane.
The Alaska Federation of Natives has worked in schools to teach young people about civics and government.
The organization also travels to villages to encourage young people to re-awaken the power of voting.
“We have so much political power. We have an ability to shape Alaska’s government in our own image, and we just need to own that power again, just like our elders did.”
Indigenous villages are also facing a shortage of poll workers, especially in the most remote regions of the state, or physical polling places that were never open at all in recent elections – including in Shaktoolik, Diomede, and Kobuk in northwest and western Alaska.
Federal officials are also working to build practices to best communicate with Indigenous villagers, and help them exercise their right to vote.
Organizations like the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center in south Minneapolis offer supportive housing that helps urban Native Americans access culturally responsive healthcare, social, and recreational services as they overcome obstacles in their lives. (Courtesy MIWRC)
Ending longstanding disparities for Native Americans is not just limited to reservations.
A lack of access to affordable, stable housing is an issue felt across Minnesota. Support organizations working with Indigenous populations in Minneapolis say they are working through a maze of complications, as <a href="https://www.publicnewsservice.org/staff/e3d12664-0572-4734-92ad-3d3777191c4b" rel="noopener noreferrer">Mike Moen</a> reports.
Minneapolis is home to one of the largest concentrations of urban Native Americans in the United States with a key cultural corridor on the city’s south side.
The American Indian Community Development Corporation offers programs addressing housing and homelessness in the area.
Executive Director Travis Earth-Werner says the support system has had a lot to contend with recently.
“The opioid epidemic, the pandemic, all these events that have occurred throughout, you know, the last ten years [have] escalated homelessness, poverty. There’s a lot of first-time homeless individuals.”
His nonprofit has about 500 units available for Native Americans overcoming substance use disorders and other challenges so they can maintain their housing, but Earth-Werner says resources are stretched thin, with added concerns about possible federal cuts on the horizon. And he says there are still gaps to fill for needs like sober housing options.
In communities all over, Earth-Werner says everybody wants to add affordable housing development to meet demand, but he says to stay in those units, people need good paying jobs that do not always require a long list of education credentials.
And for areas with unique needs, he says groups on the ground need all the outside support they can get so that staff members can stay mission focused.
“It takes people with a lot of hard work to work with individuals and progress them forward when often there’s a lot of hopelessness involved.”
Ruth Buffalo, president of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, echoes thoughts about having strong supportive services to go alongside any new housing development.
In this part of South Minneapolis, she says public safety feels like an afterthought, with drug dealing and other criminal activity making it hard for American Indians to go about their daily lives.
“Our most vulnerable are really trying hard to make a new path forward, but they can just go right outside and there’s predators lurking.”
The Women’s Resource Center recently opened its 24-unit supportive housing building called Oshki-Gakeyaa, or New Way.
The city contributed funding to that effort, but on a larger scale, Buffalo says policymakers need to listen to what residents want in crafting solutions, like housing they can afford.
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