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ICE Police watch as Rep. Ilhan Omar, center, U.S. Representative Kelly Morrison, left, and U.S. Representative Angie Craig, (not shown) on right, make their way into the the entrance of the Whipple Federal Building in Fort Snelling, MN on Saturday, Jan. 10, 2026. (Elizabeth Flores / Getty Images)

Tribe president walks back ICE claims

Native Americans still have trouble proving to officials that they are not foreigners in America. Many officials just aren't trained to recognize federally granted Tribal IDs. (BRYAN R. SMITH / AFP via Getty Images)

Native American ID deemed "fake" by ICE

Pins are pictures are pictured at a display counter during a cultural meeting at the Comanche Nation fairgrounds in Lawton, Oklahoma on September 30, 2023. (CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

The SAVE Act scares Native voters

Tatyana Tandanpolie

President Donald Trump signs a series of executive orders at the White House on January 20, 2025, in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford /The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Trump DOJ cites law "excluding Indians"

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U.S. President Joe Biden speaks to supporters at a campaign event at Renaissance High School on July 12, 2024 in Detroit, Michigan. (Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)

Biden defends pro-Palestine protester

Griffin Eckstein

Democratic vice presidential nominee Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks at Laborfest on September 2, 2024 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (Jim Vondruska/Getty Images)

Indigenous voters could be crucial

Medical MRI Scan (Getty Images/da-kuk)

Indigenous people overlooked on cancer

Student in school yard. (FotoDuets/Getty Images)

NM schools' harsh treatment of Natives

Bryant Furlow, Asia Fields, Maya Miller, Joel Jacobs - ProPublica

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Mike Carlson, 19, teaches pre-school age children Yurok words at the Klamath Family Head Start program. The Yurok tribal language revitalization program has developed curricula for all ages. (Robert Gauthier/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images)

Indigenous language education in schools

Mneesha Gellman - The Conversation

Old engraved illustration of view of Indian village, South Dakota (Getty Images/mikroman6)

What Native Americans have taught me

Frederick E. Hoxie

Christopher Columbus monument close to Las Ramblas in Barcelona, Spain (Getty Images/hutchyb)

Forget Columbus — the church was worse

Celia Viggo Wexler

A military transport plane flies over as Relatives and neighbors of the Ahmadi family gathered around the incinerated husk of a vehicle targeted and hit earlier Sunday afternoon by an American drone strike, in Kabul, Afghanistan, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (Getty Images/MARCUS YAM/LOS ANGELES TIMES)

Seven children dead: Who's to blame?

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Dakota Access Pipeline (Getty Images)

Dakota Access Pipeline breaks the law

Joseph Lee - Grist

Gareth Steenson of Exeter Chiefs kicks the ball upfield on May 19, 2010 in Exeter, England (David Rogers/Getty Images)

US & UK teams scrapping Native mascots

Sam Hitchmough - The Conversation

Rep. Debra Haaland (D-NM), President Joe Biden's nominee for Secretary of the Interior, testifies during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resource, at the U.S. Capitol on February 24, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Leigh Vogel-Pool/Getty Images)

Haaland takes on racist names

Adam Mahoney - Grist

Members of the Osage Nation from Oklahoma on the steps of the Capitol in Washington D.C., circa 1925. (Photo by FPG/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)

Conservatorships exploited Native people

Andrea Seielstad - The Conversation

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Paulina Alexis, Devery Jacobs, D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai and Lane Factor in "Reservation Dogs" (Shane Brown/FX)

"Reservation Dogs" is a successful heist

Melanie McFarland

Strawberry Moon rising (Getty Images/ Cochise Vista)

A red-tinted strawberry moon rises

Former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Rick Santorum erases Native Americans

Australia - America connection (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

How Australasians migrated to America

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U.S. President Donald Trump (Alex Wong/Getty Images)

Trump transfers sacred land to miners

Sarah Okeson - DCReport

Laura Ingalls Wilder signing books ( Courtesy of LIW Memorial Society, De Smet, S)

Fact, fiction and "Little House"

Ashlie D. Stevens

Puritans going to church: (Original Caption) "Thanks be to God for winter time! That bore the Mayflower up, To pour amid New England snows the treasures of its cup, To fold them in its icy arms, those sturdy Pilgrim sires, And weld an iron brotherhood around their Christmas fires." - B.F. Taylor. (Bettman Collection/Getty)

Why Puritans cracked down on Christmas

Peter C. Mancall - The Conversation

It's time for Indigenous decolonization

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