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Roughly 30 people 鈥� community members, elders and officials 鈥� gathered at the Prairie Wind Casino on Aug. 22. The meeting offered a panel discussion with elected officials and public safety officials.

This August a food program for Spirit Lake Nation in northeastern North Dakota had to send people home without block cheese and pork. Soon the center will be without dozens of items, and they don鈥檛 know when the shortages will end.

A report published by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in detail the dispossession of Indigenous homelands in Colorado, quantifies the value of the land and resources taken and outlines the state education system's omission of that history in its curriculum.

An act of Congress a century ago guaranteed citizenship to wary Native Americans in an age of forced assimilation and marked the outset of a long journey to secure voting rights. Daunting legal and logistical obstacles to voting persist in remote stretches of the southwestern United States, where the Native vote is credited with swinging the 2020 presidential election in Arizona to President Joe Biden. In New Mexico, recent election reforms are promising tribal communities a greater voice in how and where they can vote 鈥� bolstering an already robust path to political power.

Nationwide, nearly 17,000 homes on tribal lands didn鈥檛 have electricity in 2022, according to federal data. The Biden administration is making new investments to address the issue.

The federal government has launched a new behavioral health call line for students and staff at tribal schools across the U.S., including dozens in the Mountain West.

Born out of necessity and in mastering skills that came as horses transformed hunting, travel and warfare, rodeo has remained popular in Native American communities. Grandstands often play host to mini family reunions while Native cowboys and cowgirls show off their skills roping, riding and wrestling livestock. It's a lifestyle that's connected to nature and community 鈥� values that Oglala Lakota citizen Jessica White Plume says run deep in tribal culture. With each competition, Native Americans make it decidedly theirs. Ornate regalia, blessings bestowed by tribal elders and tribes' versions of flag songs are as much staples as big buckles and cowboy hats.

The film 鈥淜illers of the Flower Moon鈥� has elicited strong reactions, especially from the people at the center of the narrative 鈥� Osage citizens. In The NoCo discusses some of their reactions with KUNC reporter Emma VandenEinde.

Some Coloradans are for the first time confronting a hard truth about our recent past. A new state report uncovers the abuse and death that occurred at Indian boarding schools here well into the 1960s. In The NoCo unwraps some of this reckoning and the process of healing.

Raven Payment, who is Ojibwe and Kanienkehaka, works closely on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous people, who face disproportionately high rates of violence. She sat down with In the NoCo to talk about strides and setbacks since the passage of a state law meant to acknowledge and address the problem.