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Opinion. The Washington Post headline from last Monday—“White South Africans arrive at Dulles as refugees under Trump order”—immediately caught my attention. The article reported that approximately 50 White South Africans, known as Afrikaners, were admitted to the United States as refugees under a humanitarian designation made possible by an executive order signed by President Donald Trump in February.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. On January 20, 2025, President Trump signed Executive Order 14172, “Restoring Names That Honor American Greatness”, that
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- By Professor Victoria Sutton
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Guest Opinion. Across the Cherokee Nation Reservation, the summer months are a time of family vacations, community festivals, and many other opportunities for Cherokees and our friends and neighbors to gather together. Just as important, the season is an important time for our tribal nation to live out the value of ensuring our most vulnerable citizens, including elders and youth, always have access to healthy, nutritious food. These programs provide more than just meals; they deliver on the promise of a responsible government to serve its citizens with compassion and vision.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Opinion. This Mother’s Day, Native News Online honors Native mothers — the life-givers, the culture-keepers, the women whose strength holds our nations together.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. On Saturday, May 3, 2025, the citizens of Cameron County officially voted to name their city “Starbase” in an overwhelming victory of 212-6 votes. So the company town of SpaceX is an official city in Texas, now. Next, the city hoped to control its beach.
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- By Professor Victoria Sutton
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Guest Opinion. Every May, the Cherokee Nation stands alongside tribes and advocates across the country in observing Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Month. Together, we highlight a crisis that continues to devastate tribal families and communities nationwide, and the Cherokee Nation is no exception. This year, as we mourn the lives lost and support the families left behind, we renew our commitment to justice for Native people.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Guest Opinion. In violation of Tribal sovereignty, the Trump administration is putting in place new “emergency permitting” regulations to fast-track mining and fossil fuel projects on federal lands.
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- By Judith LeBlanc
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Guest Opinion. The tribal gaming industry has been the most successful economic development in Indian country in my lifetime. Over the past four and a half decades, it has lifted entire communities out of crushing poverty and conferred economic and political power to Indian people for the first time in generations.
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- By Bryan Newland
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Guest Opinion. Native communities already experience obstacles to voting, from language barriers and lack of polling places on reservations to state laws which do not recognize Tribal identifications or accept reservation addresses that sometimes do not include house numbers or even street names.
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- By Judith LeBlanc
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Guest Opinion. Executive orders and declared intentions to drastically alter both K-12 and higher education filled President Trump’s first 100 days. From making promises to dismantle the Department of Education to threats to pursue legal action and withhold federal funds from universities that don’t align with the Administration’s mandates, the future of access to higher education for all students, and free speech in academia from curriculum to expressing one’s opinions has brought academic freedom in higher education to a flash point.
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- By Cheryl Crazy Bull