Month: January 2026 Blogs

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One Student’s Story

One Student’s Story

By Joseph (Tohono O’odham Nation) As a Native person traveling on my own tribal nation and ancestral lands, I never thought I would be questioned about my citizenship. Our land and our Tribe existed long before borders, checkpoints, or immigration agencies. Yet these...

National Day of Racial Healing

National Day of Racial Healing

In the past year we have witnessed the erosion of freedom of speech, racial profiling of civilians, and further limitations on minority and low-income individuals’ ability to pursue their desired educations and careers. The Indigenous peoples within the United States...

Lending an Indigenous Perspective to ICE Raids

In the past year we have witnessed the erosion of the freedom of speech, profiling of civilians, and the right to peacefully protest. What has happened in Minnesota, including the murder of a protestor and the arrest of four Native Americans, is chilling. Native...

Remembering Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne) 

Remembering Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell (Northern Cheyenne) 

The former Senator Ben Nighthorse Campbell passed December 30, 2025, surrounded by family shortly after a visit with tribal elders. Eddie Box Jr. sang the sacred Southern Ute Sundance songs which carried Native people between worlds for generations, and the vision of Nighthorse-Campbell donned in his war bonnet and buckskins and riding his horse home into the next world.