Native America Calling

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Thursday, December 11, 2025 – Tribes fight for solutions to dwindling clean water sources
December 11, 2025

Paiute and Shoshone tribes in California’s Owens Valley are facing a shortage of wateran issue that spans decades, but is now exacerbated by climate change. The city of Los Angeles, more than 200 miles away, is guzzling one-third of the groundwater

Wednesday, December 10, 2025 – Mental health experts point to personal connections to maintain winter mental health
December 10, 2025

December is a traditional time for feasts, family, and giving, but the financial and time burdens of the holiday-heavy month, combined with the change of seasons and other factors, also make it a time ripe for breaks in a persons mental health. Well fin

Tuesday, December 9, 2025 – Tribes ponder blood quantum alternative
December 09, 2025

Crow leadership are working toward revamping their tribal citizenship requirements. If their proposal goes through, any currently enrolled tribal citizens would be designated as having 100% Crow blood

Monday, December 8, 2025 – Tribal museums reflect on tumultuous year, chart their next steps
December 08, 2025

Cuts in grants and operating funds, federal staff reductions, and department disorganization – and the federal government shutdown – all took a toll on the work done by tribal museums this year. Tribal museums are a source of economic developm

Friday, December 5, 2025 – Tribes work to define legal boundaries for online sports betting
December 05, 2025

State by state, tribes are staking out a share in the burgeoning online sports betting business. Places like Colorado, California, Wisconsin, and Michigan all have ongoing legal and political disputes

Thursday, December 4, 2025 – An increasing number of workers turn to side hustles
December 04, 2025

Nine out of ten people seeking jobs say they have a side hustle a second or even third job. An Express Employment Professionals-Harris Poll from October 2025 also says a higher percentage of younger job-seekers Gen Z and Millennials expect to be able

Wednesday, December 3, 2025 – Tribal colleges see an uncertain federal funding road ahead
December 03, 2025

A one-time allocation for Tribal Colleges and Universities unexpectedly just doubled the federal allocation compared to the previous year. And a small handful of colleges are rejoicing over multi-mill

Tuesday, December 2, 2025 – Short films taking on big stories
December 02, 2025

Braids by director, writer, and editor Elise Aachix Qaaduug Beers (Unangan) tells the story of a Native student who contends with bullying and uninformed school policy. Its a modern-day tale with a long historical reach.Guts, a comedy by Elias Gol

Monday, December 1, 2025 – Advocates push back against new obstacles to Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives momentum
December 01, 2025

Despite promises by elected leaders to address the disproportionate number of Native Americans and Alaska Natives who are murdered or go missing, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives (MMIR) advoc

Friday, November 28, 2025 – The Menu: celebrating heritage and crossing borders with chefs Sean Sherman and Pyet DeSpain
November 28, 2025

In his second cookbook, Turtle Island: Foods and Traditions of the Indigenous Peoples of North America, Sean Sherman (Oglala Lakota), James Beard Award-wining chef and restaurateur, dives deeper into the Indigenous culinary communities of 13 regions of