Last week, Sheena Between Lodges, a member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe in South Dakota, was brutally beaten into a coma.

Kevin Stitt made history Tuesday night. Unless you happen to stay up on the Native American press, you likely didn’t hear much about it.

A challenge from Native American and environmental groups successfully halted construction of the Keystone Pipeline, at least for now, with a Montana judge ruling in their favor late Thursday night.

Sharice Davids has been elected to represent Kansas in the U.S. House; she will join Deb Haaland of New Mexico, who claimed her election just an hour after Davids’ win was confirmed, in becoming the first Native American women to be elected to Congress.

A glance at Paulette Jordan’s career might tip you to the fact she’s a bit of an anomaly. Yes, she’s a gunslinging, horse-riding single mother. But the 38-year-old Idahoan is also running to become America’s first Native American governor, ever. For this episode of Undercurrent we traveled to Idaho to follow Jordan as…

BOISE, ID—On paper, Paulette Jordan is the kind of candidate Native peoples dreamt of a generation ago.

JoDe Goudy, the Yakama Nation Tribal Council chairman, was turned away from his tribe’s hearing before the Supreme Court on Wednesday, with security telling him that he could not enter wearing the full tribal regalia.

Jacqueline Pata, the executive director of the National Congress of American Indians, was placed on leave on Saturday over her handling of sexual harassment claims lodged against longtime NCAI general counsel John Dossett.

Not that it’s anything new, but this week’s news cycle has been an especially long one to follow as a Native American; by all indications, the next two years won’t feel any shorter.

Alaska Gov. Bill Walker issued an official apology to Native Americans on behalf of the state at the Alaska Federation of Natives Convention held in Anchorage on Thursday, per KTVA 11 News:

I am so very tired.

Elizabeth Warren released the results of a DNA test showing she does, in fact, have some Native American ancestry. As m’colleague Katherine pointed out this morning, this was not a good idea.

In the latest case of white politicians attempting to stifle the myriad of rising Native 2018 candidates, a local Republican official in Kansas was apparently itching a little too hard to say the quiet part out loud, calling congressional candidate Sharice Davids a “radical socialist kick boxing [sic] lesbian.”

Heidi Heitkamp’s road back to the Senate was never going to be simple.

This piece is part of Splinter’s series The New Guard, where we interview progressive candidates who are running in 2018 midterm races across the country to shake up the Democratic Party establishment.

The Democratic Party prides itself on being inclusive and advocating for communities of color, but there was a time when racism was at the center of its policies.

The Penobscot Indian Reservation, established through a settlement with the state of Maine in 1980, begins about 12 miles north of Bangor at the foot of a bridge that stretches across the Penobscot River. Technically, the boundaries of the tribal territory stretch in a thin line 60-odd miles up the river from there.…

Indigenous activists and allies, shut down a street and occupied the lobby of the JPMorgan Chase headquarters in Seattle to say no to oil pipelines that would put their communities—and lives—at risk.

There’s at least 75 miles of the U.S.‐Mexico border where National Guard troops can’t go, no matter what President Donald Trump says.

Four hours west of Albuquerque, over the mud brown desert hills, past the impossibly expansive golden plains strewn with flat-topped mountains pressed on god’s griddle, north of Gallup, New Mexico, “The Most Patriotic Small Town in America,” in tiny Chinle, Arizona, off Indian Route 7, on a dirt-paved side street not…