The newly elected National Congress of American Indians executive committee was sworn in during the annual conference held in Seattle, Washington from November 16-21, 2025.

The executive committee will serve a two-year term from 2025-2027.

✍️: @lunabreyna.bsky.social, UNN + ICT

#NCAI2025

A newly proposed Senate bill removes $7 million from the 2026 budget request for Native Community Development Financial Institutions, a decision Tribal leaders say threatens critical access to capital in Native communities.

✍️: Lyric Aquino, UNN + RFA

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We're #hiring! Are you an early-career journalists who are interested in learning all aspects of an independent digital outlet doing award-winning work.

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#NowHiring #journalism #Canada

‘Release the Pain We Carry:’ Scenes from MMIR Day of Awareness and Action.

✍️: @nikabartoosmith.bsky.social UNN+ICT
📸 : @jarrette-werk.bsky.social UNN + RFA

Next stop United Kingdom! Honored and humbled to be among the 10 Indigenous Affairs reporters from across the world to be invited by the Associated Press to participate in the AP Climate Storytelling + Skoll World Forum.

"It is unacceptable to evict us for nonpayment of rent if you do not even know how much we owe."

A growing number of tenants are decrying — including at a recent public protest — what they say is a pattern of unjust eviction notices, mismanagement and neglect by property managers.

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"It is unacceptable to evict us for nonpayment of rent if you do not even know how much we owe."

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✍️+ 📸 : @Jarrette_Werk for Underscore Native News + @report4america

“PSU really wanted to uplift Indigenous sciences alongside and equal to Western science in a STEM academic building, and I don’t know that there are a lot of examples of that elsewhere, maybe none,” Suzanne Estes, Chickasaw and Choctaw, said. “So it’s really unique in that perspective.”

Dozens of canoe families from across the region made their landing at sqʷuʔqʷuʔqʷaǰali, the “place befallen with water” or Owen Beach on July 30, 2024.

Photos from Tribal Journeys or Canoe Journey 2024

#CanoeJourney #TribalJourneys #NativeSky #IndigenousSky #PNW

White House Tribal Youth Forum 2024
#NativeYouth #WhiteHouse

Wishing I was a little Rez kid painting horses with my cousins at our grandparents’ house right now. 🐴🖌️🎨

Documenting moments I wish I had as a kid through my nieces’ eyes is healing. I’m so thankful our family does this for the youth today.

iiwosihoo3 – 'elk dog' or horse. 🦌🐕

#LithiumAmericas plans to extract the largest known #lithium deposit in the US, while also, destroying the final resting place of over 30 Paiute men, women & children who were massacred by the 1st NV Cavalry on Sept. 12, 1865 #ThackerPass #Greencolonialism #mining
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Wɔéih phíííh níít’ɔin! Hello my relatives! My name is Jarrette Werk, I am Aaniiih & Nakoda from the Fort Belknap Indian Community in Montana. I cover Indigenous communities in the Pacific Northwest for Underscore Native News via Report for America. Here’s some of my recent work ✍️📸