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The federal program is giving Tribes more control over the facilities their communities rely on, creating a more defined and predictable approach to funding, operations, and long-term infrastructure planning.
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Sponsored Storytelling. In a packed conference room filled with nearly 150 attendees — boots and jeans, cowboy hats and notebooks — tribal leaders, ranch managers and agriculture professionals gathered for two days of technical briefings and candid discussion. The 2026 CKP PRF Tribal Summit brought them together, but the larger message extended well beyond livestock.
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Sponsored Storytelling. Across reservations and Native communities, leadership doesn’t always come with a title. It looks like organizing community events, mentoring youth, advocating for health and safety, preserving culture, protecting families, and stepping up.
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Sponsored Storytelling. New partnership introduces scalable indoor farming solutions to improve food access, health outcomes and food sovereignty for tribal communities.
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Sponsored Storytelling. For more than a decade, Indigenous researchers and advocates have built frameworks to govern Native data.
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Sponsored Storytelling. Kimber R. Olson didn’t set out to build a consulting firm.
For more than two decades, she worked in Indian Country as a tribal social worker, behavioral health clinician, supervisor, and federal technical assistance provider. She sat with families in crisis and trained frontline workers.
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Steps toward food sovereignty happen one at a time.
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Inside the Detroit Institute of Arts’ (DIA) Contemporary Anishinaabe Art: A Continuation exhibition, visitors move through a gallery alive with material, memory, and motion—woven baskets, quillwork, jewelry, photographs, and mixed-media works speaking to one another across time and practice. Within this collective space, Kelly Church’s black ash basketry rises with quiet authority, grounding the room in generations of Anishinaabe knowledge and responsibility.
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- By Max Hahn, Fiber Broadband Association
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Broadband has moved from being a “nice to have” and is now considered essential infrastructure. Fiber networks strengthen public safety, expand healthcare access, support education and workforce participation, and improve the day-to-day delivery of government services. When connectivity is reliable, communities can coordinate emergency response, sustain telehealth programs, deliver remote and hybrid learning, support local businesses, and improve access to government resources.
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The 2024 Michigan Non-Gaming Tribal Economic Impact Study marks a significant achievement in tribal economic development within the state. For the first time, all 12 federally recognized tribes have collaborated to comprehensively detail their substantial economic contributions to Michigan. Published in August 2025, this new study expands upon the first impact study from 2019, which included data from only nine tribes, providing a much more complete and detailed picture of the positive economic influence tribal businesses have across the state.