"[I]n some areas, the federal government may be appropriating only about one-tenth of what it actually owes to tribal communities," Robert Maxim said.

On December 24, 2025, NARF filed an amicus brief supporting an injunction that has blocked the destructive, broad-based freeze of federal funding that the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) directe...

Guest Opinion. On November 19, the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced that, as a result of the government shutdown, it would not release its October jobs report—the first time in the report’s 77-yea...

Speakers at the Center for Indian Country Development’s tenth-anniversary commemoration and fifth annual data summit described how in the modern era, economic data support tribes in governing their na...

This piece summarizes the challenges that the congressional funding process and government shutdowns present to Tribal Nations, citizens, and communities.

Braiding the past and future of Native economies

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As the nation prepares to honor and thank working families across the nation this Labor Day weekend, the Trump Administration has issued another Executive Order (EO) attempting to strip collective bar...

This analysis aims to identify the role that regional organizations can play in solving data challenges that exist for Native nations and Native American people.

A report from Brookings and the Southern California Association of Governments looks at how regional and state governments can step up in data work with Native people and tribes in southern California

This analysis aims to identify the role that regional organizations can play in solving data challenges that exist for Native nations and Native American people.

In this episode of Metro Blueprint, experts examine the challenges Indian Country is facing due to the disruption in federal funding. Robert Maxim, fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Allison Nes...

In this episode of Metro Blueprint, experts examine the challenges Indian Country is facing due to the disruption in federal funding. Robert Maxim, fellow at the Brookings Institution, and Allison Nes...

Nearly 8 million Americans work in industries targeted by the levies and the majority are Trump voters, a New York Times analysis shows

Chinese and Canadian retaliatory tariffs are aimed at agricultural, manufacturing and energy sectors that employ millions of Americans.

Thousands of workers are losing their jobs in health, education and other key tribal programs and agencies

Numerous employees of Haskell Indian Nations University lost their jobs Friday as part of sweeping nationwide cuts ordered by President Donald Trump's administration.

The challenge of measuring Native American students’ educational access and success is made even more difficult by the poor quality of higher education data.

While the China clash will play out globally and strategically, its potential impacts will be localized and varied, since different regions have different local industry mixes and structures.

While the China clash will play out globally and strategically, its potential impacts will be localized and varied, since different regions have different local industry mixes and structures.

All federal grants and loans are being temporarily paused, leaving tribes with unanswered questions about the impact of the order

Readers’ different perspectives on land acknowledgments. Also: Outrage over the Jan. 6 pardons; Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and the A.M.A.; return to office.

The nation's first Indigenous cabinet secretary is wrapping up at the Department of Interior. It's unclear how many of Deb Haaland's reforms will remain intact under Trump.

Guest Opinion. President Biden earlier this month announced he would turn the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School into the Carlisle Federal Indian Boarding School National Monument. But it will b...

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