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30 October 2025 Chez Oxendine
A prolonged federal shutdown and deep staff cuts are hollowing out essential Indian Country programs and breaking the government’s trust obligations, leaders told the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs Wednesday.
30 Oct
San Carlos Apache Healthcare Corporation closed on $46.25 million in taxable revenue bonds to finance a 100-bed long-term care and skilled nursing facility on the San Carlos Apache Tribe's...
October 28
A publicly traded company announced Tuesday that it has secured $51 million in financing from Lytton Rancheria of California, marking the first tribal investment in the Mojave Groundwater Bank, a...
October 27
The Small Business Administration has suspended tribally owned ATI Government Solutions from obtaining new federal contracts while the agency investigates allegations the company fraudulently used...
October 25
A new report commissioned by the Seneca Nation places the tribe's annual economic impact in Western New York at nearly $2 billion, supporting just over 8,000 jobs across 16 counties.
A Native-led nonprofit in New Mexico nonprofit will distribute more than $1 million in federal grants to tribes and tribal organizations for bison production projects.
 
October delivered a wave of strategic leadership appointments across Indian Country. Organizations from Alaska to Oklahoma tapped executives with proven track records in economic development, cultural preservation, and tribal enterprise management—signaling a clear investment in Indigenous-led growth and sovereignty.
Marni King’s career path began far from the boardroom. A member of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin and Oneida Nation of Wisconsin, she started in a meatpacking plant before becoming a certified nursing assistant while pursuing a nursing degree. From there, she transitioned to insurance at Humana, where she earned six promotions in nine years.
A national Native American financial advocacy group is warning that a proposed U.S. Treasury deadline change could disrupt tribal governments from deploying federal funds for small- business lending.
A federal reversal on tribal jurisdiction over Alaska Native allotments has cast uncertainty over two high-profile tribal gaming projects, including a planned gambling hall on Douglas Island and an operating facility near Anchorage.
Owamni, the James Beard Award-winning restaurant operated by the nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS), will move to the Guthrie Theater’s main floor restaurant space in spring 2026.
At a recent First Nations conference he attended in Canada, Dr. Richard Luarkie noticed something was missing—almost no one mentioned sovereignty.
The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana broke ground on a new 14,000-square-foot Feather Fuel Travel Plaza in Iowa, La., marking the brand's first expansion beyond the tribe's casino resort property.
The Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana has acquired GovStrive, a federal human resources consulting firm, expanding the tribe's federal contracting operations beyond infrastructure work into workforce solutions. Terms were not disclosed.
The Cherokee Nation has become one of the first tribes to establish comprehensive artificial intelligence guidelines, signing a policy that allows AI use while protecting Cherokee language and culture.
The College of the Muscogee Nation and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas signed an agreement that will allow tribal college students to transfer into UNLV's hospitality program with a focus on tribal gaming and hospitality management.
Huna Totem Corporation expects to eliminate 15,000 pounds of plastic waste this year through a partnership with an Alaska Native-owned water company that packages glacial water in reusable aluminum bottles.
Investors face mounting financial and reputational risks when they fail to properly engage with Indigenous communities on energy transition projects — particularly mining and renewable projects that overlap Indigenous territories, according to a new report released Monday.