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

"[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.

What's at stake for Native American Tribes and people when the federal government stymies grant funding.

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...

YouTube video by Minneapolis Fed

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

YouTube video by Brookings Institution

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.

Te Whata is an iwi data platform tailored specifically by iwi for iwi – by us for us. Te Whata is for iwi members, technicians and leaders – designers and users of data.

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.

The Centers for  Disease Control and Prevention has stripped crucial health data from its website that tribal nations rely on to protect their citizens’ health, prompting immediate pushback from Nati...

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.

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.

What's at stake for Native American Tribes and people when the federal government stymies grant funding.

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...