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Native News Pick of the Month: The First Native American Cabinet Secretary

By Joshua Arce | Published: January 26, 2021

This month, PWNA President and CEO Joshua Arce offers his thoughts on our ‘Native News Pick of the Month’ about the first Native American cabinet. secretary.

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Merry Christmas and Thank You!

By Joshua Arce | Published: December 22, 2020

Each year, we take time to reflect on the impact of our program partners and donors on Native communities… and to put it mildly, 2020 was unprecedented.

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Recently in Native News

By Moderator | Published: September 29, 2020

Check out this month’s most notable #NativeAmerican headlines, from next-generation students rebuilding communities amid COVID-19 to some of Justice Ginsburg’s memorable contributions to Indian Country.

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Census Counts: Shaping the Future for Native Americans

By Joshua Arce | Published: September 22, 2020

Native Americans have been underserved, underrepresented and undercounted in the census for centuries… reports highlight the systematic marginalization…

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Happy Holidays, and Thank You

By Rafael Tapia, Jr. | Published: December 26, 2017

PWNA serves approximately 1,000 reservation partners, focusing on health and nutrition, animal welfare, education, and emergency services, as well as holiday support.

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Voting Challenges Faced by Native Americans

By Rafael Tapia, Jr. | Published: August 16, 2016

Many Native American Elders encourage tribal members to vote for change. As of right now, more than 1 million Native Americans who are eligible to vote are unregistered voters.

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A High Impact Food Partner & Project in Indian Country

By Andrew Bentley for PWNA | Published: December 22, 2015

Food sovereignty has been a major focus in sustainable community development across Indian country.

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Sharing the Good in 2014

By Kelly Gibson | Published: December 23, 2014

We have written recently about NRC’s work with Native communities around the holidays. Now that tens of thousands of Christmas stockings and holiday meals have placed, we are taking a breather to reflect on what has been accomplished and learned in 2014. We are pleased and humbled that hundreds of partner agencies on reservations asked […]

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Social Equity

By Murray Lee for PWNA | Published: November 25, 2014

Kelly mentioned “social equity” in her blog topic on Chaske Spencer and Native Americans Giving Back, and it got me to thinking, just what is social equity?  Well, there are many broad definitions and there are many focused definitions.  And although the definitions vary slightly based on the field of study or the context of […]

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Obama’s Vision for Standing Rock & Native Youth

By Helen Oliff | Published: June 24, 2014

President Obama has a vision for the Standing Rock reservation youth to strengthen education and provide more job opportunities.

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