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In 2021, the USDA launched its Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative. The goal is to rethink the USDA’s food and nutrition programs from an Indigenous perspective.

In the court Wednesday, lawyers for the state of Texas and for non-Native adoptive parents told the justices that ICWA violates the Constitution by discriminating based on race

As of Sept. 13, six Indigenous Americans are in the House of Representatives, which now has Native American, Native Hawaiian and Alaska Native members.

The Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs agreed Wednesday to ask the University of Vermont to hold a symposium featuring speakers from state-recognized tribes.This is in response to a previous event held at UVM, where several representatives from the Quebec-based Odanak First Nation questioned the ancestry of some members of those tribes.

Francis issued the apology years after a Canadian-government-funded report said children had been physically and sexually abused at the mostly Catholic-run schools in the country.

Pope Francis issued a long-awaited apology and took responsibility for the church's cooperation in generations of abuse and cultural suppression at Catholic residential schools across Canada.

At a Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs meeting this week, female commissioners spoke up about sexism and cultural appropriation among state-recognized tribes.

At this month’s Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs meeting, members and allies of the state-recognized tribes responded to a recent presentation at the University of Vermont. They rejected Odanak First Nation’s claims of Vermont tribes being “Pretendian.�

Last week, Abenaki representatives from the Odanak First Nation addressed an uncomfortable, long-simmering dispute. Odanak citizens and officials said Vermont's state-recognized tribes are misrepresenting themselves as Abenaki � and profiting from it � when they are not Indigenous.

An Abenaki couple, both basket makers, were part of a thriving economy on Lake Sunapee in the early 1900s. Generations later, their descendants are keeping the traditions alive.