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I am extremely proud that one of the first bills that President Joe Biden signed into law in 2023 was the Durbin Feeling Native American Languages Act.

  "We need to reclaim our Indigenous foods," says Sean Sherman, the founding chef and co-owner of the award-winning Minneapolis eatery

President Biden has declared an emergency for the Havasupai tribe of Arizona due to flooding from the atmospheric river that has inundated much of the drought-ridden American West. 

One hundred and thirty-two winters ago, on December 29, 1890, some 150 Lakota men, women and children were massacred by the US 7th Cavalry Regiment near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Some estimate the actual number closer to 300.

This Day in History: Dec. 26, 1862 — On the day after Christmas, on Dec. 26, 1862, 38 Dakota men were hanged in the largest mass-hanging in U.S. history. The executions were ordered by President Abraham Lincoln.