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N Scott Momaday was a Kiowa poet, educator, and folklorist whose writing connected and inspired audiences. He published more than a dozen books, but his debut novel "House Made of Dawn" is noted as the starting point for contemporary Native American literature.

On Dec. 6, Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced revisions to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act at the White House Tribal Summit in Washington D.C. 

University of Georgia honors student and former Native American Student Association president has been awarded the competitive and highly respected Rhodes Scholarship.

On December 29, the Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs decided to acquire in trust tribally-owned lands for promoting economic opportunities, new housing options for the community, and other purposes under the Old Pascua Community Land Acquisition law.

Indigenous Peyote use traditions have been carried through forced assimilation and genocide. The peyote cactus is indigenous to one small area of Texas and is difficult to cultivate. The psychedelic renaissance currently sweeping America is trying to co-opt these traditions for profit.

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