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A Responsibility to Indigenous Nations The conference opened with remarks from Randall Akee (Native Hawaiian), Director of the Harvard Kennedy School Project on Indigenous Governance and Development, and Larry Wright, Jr. (Ponca Tribe of Nebraska)...

Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury and the IRS issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) clarifying that wholly-owned Tribal entities chartered or organized by one or more Tribes have the same tax status of their owning Tribes. This means that...

The Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives Task Force established by the Wisconsin Department of Justice reviewed more than 40 recommendations at its Sept. 19 meeting, including one to “institute greater accountability measures for law...

American Indians and Alaska Natives are a small group relative to the U.S. population. They’re more likely to live in remote parts of the country and can be difficult to reach with traditional survey methods. That’s just scratching the surface of why it’s...

A busy summer is winding down at the Cherokee Nation Public Health Department in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. But administrative assistant Jennie Laconsello is still fielding plenty of questions from families trying to track down and use their Summer EBT benefits...

American Indians and Alaska Natives are a small group relative to the U.S. population. They’re more likely to live in remote parts of the country and can be difficult to reach with traditional survey methods. That’s just scratching the surface of why it’s...

MacKenzie Scott’s grant-making approach — unrestricted multimillion-dollar gifts without interference or onerous reporting requirements — has proven particularly valuable to Native American nonprofits, whose history with private philanthropy has long been...

His recently published memoir, I’m Not Broken (No Estoy Roto), begins and ends in Harvard Yard on a humid June day more than 20 years ago, when Jesse Leon MPP 2001 graduated from the Kennedy School. Commencement serves as an apt metaphor for a story about...

A panel discussion at Harvard University addressed the dark history of the Osage Nation’s struggle for sovereignty with the American federal government, with the panel calling attention to modern Osage progress in light of Martin Scorsese’s 2023 film,...

Jamie Stuck, Chairperson of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi (NHBP) Tribe, joined a list of historical leaders as he was welcomed as a visiting dignitary by Harvard University and invited to sign the university’s guest book. The book contains...