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Several Indigenous community members shared their moccasin photos in honor of “Rock Your Mocs” week , including Fond du Lac Band tribal citizen and artist Wendy Savage.

The Osage Nation signed a fee-to-trust land agreement with the Bureau of Indian Affairs for its 43,000-acre Osage Nation Ranch. The event, which took place at the Osage Casino in Pawhuska on Nov. 18, was eight years in the making.

A post on social media in October indicated some progress on a new draft of legislation that would allow Osage headrights owned by non-Osages to be returned. But, as Osage News learned, it's complicated.

“They Would Not Be Moved: The Enduring Struggle of the Mille Lacs Band of Ojibwe to Keep their Reservation” by historian and anthropologist Bruce White was published earlier this year by the Minnesota Historical Society Press. The book details the nearly 200-year fight by the tribal nation to maintain their land.

Shareholders discuss a new piece of legislation regarding pore space and the incoming Trump administration's impact on drilling permits

Nicholas Ryan O'Brien, an Osage citizen, moved to dismiss multiple traffic violations he received in Tulsa citing McGirt. Last week, those efforts were denied by the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals in an opinion many are calling an effort to run roughshod over established federal Indian law and the landmark McGirt decision.

Marx Cassity and Ava Rose Johnson are nominated for Best Alternative Recording and Best Music Video. The awards started in 1998 as a way to celebrate Native excellence in recording.

“Niimiwin” is the latest exhibit at All My Relations Arts in south Minneapolis. The title “Niimiwin” means “everyone dance,” a nod to the theme of the exhibit — the tradition of dance and powwow.

Jim Hallum grew up on the Santee Sioux Reservation in Nebraska not knowing anything about the U.S.-Dakota War of 1862.