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ICT NEWSCAST: Shop Native for the holiday, spotlight on crafts and more
The week’s edition of the ICT Newscast covers the news for the week ending December 12 2025.
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Wishes granted, hopes dashed in national defense bill
House approves the NDAA legislation but leaves out key provisions on Native issues. Now it goes to the Senate.
Native woman announces run for South Dakota governor
Allison Renville will run as an Independent candidate
Contested elections, local races: Native people participated across the country in Election Day 2025
UPDATED: A look at Native candidates on Tuesday’s ballot
Trump administration guts community finance fund, a move that threatens tribal economies
Native CDFIs provide lending services in rural areas that are often banking deserts
Early retirements, other cuts slash Indian Health Service workforce
More than 1,000 workers left IHS earlier this year and the department is struggling with vacant positions
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Proposed change to Clean Water Act to limit protections
The Native American Rights Fund urges tribal leaders to review the proposed rule and submit public comment before the deadline on Jan. 5.
NDN Collective wins discrimination lawsuit against South Dakota hotel
The Rapid City, S.D.-based Grand Gateway Hotel was again found to have discriminated against Native Americans in 2022
PEOPLE LOST IN 2025: Their impacts ‘felt for generations’
Indigenous nations lost multiple leaders who made long-lasting effects in their work and communities
Lumbee Tribe becomes 575th federally recognized tribe
Congress and President Donald Trump approved legislation this week supporting full federal recognition for the Lumbee Tribe after more than a century of consideration
From Santa Fe to Guatemala, family brings safe rides home
A Santa Fe family has started a business, Rutas Santa Fe, that restores school buses in America and transports them to a Guatemalan village to use for public transportation
Scenes from NCAI’s annual convention celebrating Native leadership
The National Congress of American Indians brought together leaders for the 82nd year from across the nation to address critical issues, create dialogue for strategies moving forward, and recognize Native excellence
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A Wampanoag retelling of Thanksgiving
A Wampanoag citizen retells us the true story about the first meeting between the Wampanoag people and the pilgrims. Plus, more on the handful of Native people who ran for public office in Tuesday’s election
Keep reading400 years later, ‘we did not vanish’
‘We did not simply fade into the background as Thanksgiving myth says, we have survived and thrived, we have persevered’
Keep readingThanksgiving offers a way forward
In general, Indians are really big on gratitude. Ceremonies, feasts, activities great and small all begin with giving thanks to the Creator for letting us enjoy life on this earth.
Keep readingA Canadian looks at American Thanksgiving
It is surprising that we as Canadians are unaware of what should be a seminal moment in European-Indigenous relations.
Keep readingThe Wampanoag Side of the First Thanksgiving Story
The story of the first Thanksgiving is often told only from the Pilgrims perspective, but what about the Wampanoag view of the feast?
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