Opinion

Promoting business development and economic independence on reservations is crucial to sustaining tribal communities.

Data collection on Native American involvement in adoption and foster care is needed to remedy courts’ failures.

FDA should take steps to strengthen the regenerative medicine industry.

In the battle for self-determination, unrecognized Indian tribes can petition for federal acknowledgment.

Questions of equity, access, and privacy demand answers before a vaccine passport will work.

Federal public lands agencies should prioritize the inclusion and fair treatment of all employees.

A Supreme Court decision raises new questions about tribal jurisdiction in land disputes.

Congress should enact a law that restores tribal regulatory and adjudicatory authority.

Judicial disregard of Native Nations’ ethnohistory frustrates the purpose of federal law protecting Native remains.

President Biden’s first executive actions provide lessons on presidential authority and ambition.

President Trump’s last executive actions and President Biden’s early ones reveal fleeting nature of executive power.

Alternative land use and governance models highlight the need for tribally led reforms in the United States.