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Hollywood celebrities, including, This Is Us star Mandy Moore and actress Julianne Moore, are calling on Joe Biden to nominate Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM) as United States Secretary of the Interior. Haaland is Native American and the stars say “Native people hold a sacred connection to the natural world.”

To assuage critics of its name, the Chicago Blackhawks are set to read an “indigenous land statement” ahead of each home game.

Former Vice President Joe Biden is opting to ignore Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day—a holiday being embraced by progressives to honor Native Americans.

Black Lives Matter supporters chanting “abolish the police” have torn down a statue of Sir John A MacDonald, the Scotsman who became Canada’s first prime minister, in Montreal.

The Kansas City Chiefs have been in close consultation with Native American groups about their team name, and how the organization and fans represent themselves.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Thursday in a narrow 5-4 decision that the State of Oklahoma cannot prosecute crimes by Native Americans on Creek lands, holding that they remain a “reservation” and that federal courts therefore have criminal jurisdiction.

Former Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a member of the Northern Cheyenne Indian Tribe who sponsored a 2003 law protecting federal monuments, called for the defense of Andrew Jackson’s statue.

Land O’Lakes is quietly undergoing a brand makeover, removing the iconic Indian woman from its packaging after 92 years.

The status of the 321-acre Mashpee Wampanoag reservation in Massachusetts is in limbo following a series of court decisions, but the tribe and others in the state are blaming the Department of the Interior and, in turn, President Donald Trump.

The University of Illinois student government is offering a “buyback” of “racist” merchandise featuring the school’s former mascot, Chief Illiniwek. The students hope to do its part in removing the so-called “outdated and racist imagery from campus.”

TORONTO (AP) – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Friday indigenous barricades that are blocking rail service across Canada and hurting the economy have to come down now.

Democratic presidential hopeful Mike Bloomberg suggested the governor of New York don a cowboy hat and stare down Native American tribes with a shotgun over a disagreement on cigarette taxes.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences took the unprecedented step on Sunday of recognizing that the Oscars ceremony is taking place on tribal lands.

A new survey by leftist university Berkeley claims the name “Redskins” is even more “offensive” to Native Americans than previously thought.

President Donald Trump has tasked three members of his Cabinet to work together to investigate the high number of American Indians and Alaska Natives who have been murdered or gone missing.

A climate change protester claims companies operating oil and gas pipelines are not only hurting the environment but indigenous people.

Jane Fonda said at a climate change protest at the Capitol on Friday that money spent to develop domestic energy is “suicide investing.”

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is expected to meet with tribal leaders in Oklahoma this weekend as part of her effort to make amends for falsely claiming Native American heritage.

Fundamental American values were established in the story of Thanksgiving centuries before the U.S. Constitution, explained historian Wilfred McClay.

Teachers across America are striving to have their students “unlearn” what progressive activists say is nothing more than a “feel-good” Thanksgiving “myth.”

A guest speaker at a recent event at the University of Massachusetts, Boston, told students they are “genocide beneficiaries” due to his view of American settlers’ treatment of Native Americans.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Before Chuck Boers joined the U.S. Army, the Lipan Apache member was given his family’s eagle feathers. The feathers had been carried by his great-great-great-grandfather on his rifle when he was an Apache scout.

The coach of an Arizona Native American high school volleyball team, pulled his team from an away game when opposing fans began taunting them with calls of “savage.”

A protest in Minnesota against what some are calling the Washington Redskins “racist” name, is going to get some support from a high-ranking state official.

The University of New Mexico announced this week that it is replacing the university’s “Conquistador” official seal in response to a protest effort by a group of student activists that called it “racist.”

San Diego State University is installing a $250,000 “healing garden” to ease tensions caused by the university’s “Aztec” mascot.

A Native American climate activist declared that the ecosystem in Washington, DC, is destroyed due to climate change furthered by colonization and slavery.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) promised during CNN’s climate change town hall Wednesday night that she will not do anything that affects Native American tribal lands without consent.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is struggling to gain the trust of Native American critics, despite apologizing for making “mistakes” in the past.

A Native American activist and citizen of Cherokee Nation slammed Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) in a Huffington Post op-ed Friday, calling on her to “tell the truth” about her ancestors’ interactions with indigenous tribes — alleging that her maiden family, the Crawfords, were “white squatters” on Cherokee land.

2020 White House hopeful Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) campaign website no longer features a DNA test result revealing her fractional Native-American heritage.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) participated on Monday in the Native American Presidential Forum in Sioux City, Iowa, and apologized for making “mistakes” in the past.

Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) released a detailed plan Friday focused on “honoring and empowering tribal nations and Indigenous peoples” that includes numerous proposals ranging from tribal criminal jurisdiction expansion to implementing Medicare for All.

The controversial mural depicting George Washington will be covered with panels instead of paint, the San Francisco Board of Education voted Tuesday.

Actor Danny Glover is joining the growing chorus of prominent black activists who are opposed to covering a mural at George Washington High School in San Francisco, an artist and critic of the country’s Founding Fathers painted in 1936.

The Democrat voter who questioned Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s (D-MA) past claims of Native American heritage at a “Conversation with the Candidate” event in New Hampshire last week told Fox News’s Martha MacCallum Monday the presidential candidate was trying too hard to pander to her.