Press room of The Tomahawk , White Earth Indian Reservation , 1903
This list of Indigenous newspapers in North America is a dynamic list of newspapers and newsletters edited and/or founded by Native Americans and First Nations and other Indigenous people living in North America. These newspapers report on newsworthy events, and topics of interest to a range of Native communities and other readers. Most of these listings are still actively publishing, although some are no longer active. The Library of Congress holds most of the defunct publications in their collection.[ 1] [ 2] [ 3]
Adahooniligii (Navajo Nation ) former newspaper written mostly in Diné bizaad , the Navajo language between 1943–1957. Back issues can be accessed via the Library of Congress.[ 4]
Agi Panuuna Yadooa (Summit Lake Paiute Tribe )[ 5]
Ag’wanermiut kasitaq , (Afognak Native Village ), Alaska[ 5]
Akwesasne Notes , Mohawk Nation of Akwesasne , Ontario, Quebec, New York (1968–1998)[ 6]
Ak-Chin O'odham Runner (Ak Chin Indian Community ), Maricopa, Arizona[ 7] [ 5]
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas Newsletter , (Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas )[ 5]
Alaska Native News ("For the First People of the Last Frontier")[ 8] [ 9]
APTN National News (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
Anchorage Native News (community education publication produced by Southcentral Foundation of Alaska)[ 10]
Anishinabek News (monthly community newspaper is produced by the Communications Unit of the Anishinabek Nation at the head office in Nipissing First Nation)[ 11]
Anishinaabeg Today (White Earth Nation )[ 12]
Apache Drum Beat alternate name Apache drumbeat (San Carlos Apache Indian Reservation ) former newspaper published by the San Carlos Apache Tribal Council. Published 1959–1967. Founded in 1959, after its predecessor, the Apache Newsletter , from earlier in the 1950s. Back issues can be accessed via the Library of Congress.[ 13] [ 14]
A:shiwi A:wan Messenger and Ashiwi News (published by Zuni Pueblo ) a newsletter of the Zuni people[ 15]
Au-Authm Action News (Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community )[ 5]
Ba-Yak the Talking Raven (Quileute Nation ), La Push, Washington[ 16]
The Bacone Indian and The Baconian , Bacone College , Muskogee, Oklahoma[ 17]
Bah Kho-Je Journal , Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma,[ 5] Perkins, OK
Bay Mills News , Bay Mills Indian Community [ 5]
Birch Creek Tribal Council Newsletter , Birch Creek Tribe , Alaska[ 5]
Biskinik , (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma ), Durant, Oklahoma[ 18]
Bishop Paiute Tribe Newsletter , Bishop Paiute Tribe [ 5]
Bois Forte News , Bois Forte Band of Chippewa [ 5]
Char-Kootsa News , the official news of the Flathead Reservation [ 19]
Chaticks si Chaticks - Pawnee Nation News (Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma )[ 20]
Cherokee Phoenix (Cherokee Advocate ) and Cherokee Voices , Tahlequah, Oklahoma
The Circle: Native American News and Arts , (newspaper with an Indigenous perspective based in Minneapolis)[ 21]
Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Tribune , (bi-monthly news publication for tribal citizens), El Reno, Oklahoma[ 22]
Choctaw Community News (Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians )
Chickasaw Times , (official publication of the Chickasaw Nation ), Ada, Oklahoma [ 23]
Cokv Tvlvme (Poarch Band of Creek Indians )[ 5]
Cokv Tvlvme (Seminole Nation of Oklahoma )[ 5]
Comanche Nation News (Comanche Nation ), Lawton, Oklahoma [ 24]
Coyote Valley Tribal News (Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians), Redwood Valley, CA[ 5]
Dakota Tawaxitku Kin , alternative name The Dakota Friend former newspaper published both Dakota and English languages between 1850–1852, Saint Paul, Minnesota[ 25]
Da’luk (Wiyot Table Bluff Rancheria)[ 5]
DeBahJiMon , Leech Lake Band of Obijwe ,[ 5] Cass Lake, MN
Delaware Indian News , Delaware Tribe of Indians ,[ 5] Bartlesville, OK
The Discourse , journalism to underserved communities, including Indigenous communities in British Columbia[ 26]
Duckwater Quarterly Newsletter , Duckwater Shoshone Tribe ,[ 5] Duckwater, NV
First Nations Drum newspaper (Canada's largest Indigenous newspaper)[ 29]
The Fort Apache Scout alternate name Apache Scout (White Mountain Apache Tribe ) , Whiteriver, Arizona[ 30]
Hannahville Happenings , Hannahville Indian Community ,[ 5] Bark River, MI
Ha-Shilth-Sa , Canada's oldest First Nation's Newspaper, and is the "newspaper of record" of the Nuu-chah-nulth people, published by the Nuu-chah-nulth Tribal Council, West Coast Vancouver Island, BC[ 33]
High Country News , received 23 National Native media awards[ 34]
Hocak Worak , Ho-Chunk Nation , Black River Falls, WI[ 35]
Hoh Tribe Newsletter , Hoh Tribe ,[ 5] Forks, WA
Hopi Action News , Hopi Tribe , Hopitutskwa, AZ[ 36]
Hopi Tutuveni , Hopi Tribe[ 5] Kykostmovi, AZ
Hownikan , Citizen Potawatomi Nation , Shawnee, OK[ 37]
IndiJ Public Media (Founded as the Lakota Times newspaper)
Indian Country Today (an enterprise of the Oneida Nation of New York, covers the Indigenous world, including American Indians, Alaska Natives and First Nations)
Indianz.com ,[ 38] owned by Noble Savage Media, LLC and Ho-Chunk, Inc., Winnebago, NE
Isleta Pueblo News , Isleta Pueblo[ 5] Isleta, NM
Jamul Newsletter , (Jamul Indian Village ), one of 12 federally recognized tribes that make up the Kumeyaay Nation of Southern California.[ 5]
Nahgahehiwanog Dibahjimowinnau , Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians ,[ 5] Peshawbestown, MI
Namps Chaahts and Námsčáć Newsletter (Shoalwater Bay Tribe )[ 52]
Nangka Wittu (Timbisha Shoshone )[ 5]
National Native News , Koahnic Broadcasting Corp. Albuquerque, NM
Native Nevadan , Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada[ 53]
Native News Online , a subsidiary of Indian Country Media
The Native Press (Independent news organization)[ 54]
Native Public Media , (based in Flagstaff, AZ)[ 55]
Native Times News , (formerly the Oklahoma Indian Times)[ 56] [ 57]
The Native Tribe of Kanatak (Native Tribe of Kanatak ) Wasilla, Alaska[ 58]
Navajo-Hopi Observer , Flagstaff, AZ
Navajo Times , (Navajo Nation ), Window Rock, AZ, founded in 1959[ 59]
News from Native California , intertribal magazine, Berkeley, CA
NTC Newsletter (Ninilchik Village Tribe, Niqnalchint qayeh kenu)[ 60]
Northern News Services Limited (news aggregator published by Northern News Services, including Northwest Territories News , Nunavut News, the Yellowknifer )
Nuniaq News , Alutiiq Tribe of Old Harbor [ 5]
Nunatsiaq News , newspaper of record for Nunavut and the Nunavik territory of Quebec)
Rawhide Press (Spokane Tribe, City of Spokane, Washington)[ 64]
Red Rocks Reporter , (Jemez Pueblo), New Mexico[ 5]
Sac & Fox News (Sac and Fox Nation )[ 65]
The Seminole Tribune , official newspaper of the Seminole Tribe of Florida . In 1989, the newspaper won the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, becoming the first Indigenous newspaper to win this award.[ 66] In 2019 the Seminole Tribune received a National Native Media Award.[ 67]
Seneca Nation publications: AASP/JOM newsletter, ECLC newsletter, Health Newsletter, Higher Education, Seneca Language Newsletter, Seneca Nation Library News (Seneca Nation of Indians )[ 5]
Shawnee Journal (Shawnee Tribe )[ 68] [ 69]
Siletz News - Duu Lhlan Wee-ya (Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians), [ 70]
S.I.R. Tribal News (Susanville Indian Rancheria )[ 71]
Skitkomiq nutacomit , Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians ,[ 5] Littleton, ME
Smoke Signals (Confederated Tribe of Grande Ronde), Grand Ronde, Oregon[ 5]
Smoke Signals (Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians ), Fredonia, Arizona[ 5]
Snee-Nee-Chum (Nooksack Indian Tribe )[ 72]
Sounder (Skokomish Indian Tribe )[ 73]
Sota Iya Ye Yapi - SWO Executives (Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate ) of the Lake Travis Reservation[ 74]
The Southern Ute Drum (Southern Ute Tribe, Colorado, New Mexico)[ 75] In 2019 the Southern Ute Drum received a National Native Media Award.[ 67]
Strong People , (Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Washington )[ 5]
Su’Nu’Nu’Shinal , (Kashia Band of Pomo Indians )[ 76]
The Supai Weekly News (Havasupai Reservation ) former newspaper published during the 1950s ending in 1958.[ 77]
Suquamish News (Suquamish Tribe )[ 78]
Syecem (Port Gamble S’Kallam Tribe )[ 79]
Voice of CTCLUSI (Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Indians), Coos Bay, Oregon[ 85]
Wa? Biba? ?am Muse?es Isge ; Wasi siw (Washoe Tribe )[ 5]
Wasatun wi , (Lower Sioux Indian Community )[ 5]
Wawatay News (published in both English and Indigenous languages of northern Ontario, including Ojibway , Oji-Cree , and Cree )[ 86]
Wiikwedong Dazhi-Ojibwe , (Keweenaw Bay Indian Community )[ 87] [ 5]
Wichita and Affiliated Tribes Newsletter (Wichita and Affiliated Tribes ) Wichita , Waco , Keechi , Tawakoni tribes[ 88]
Win Awenen Nisitotung , the Sault Tribe Newspaper (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan)[ 89]
Windspeaker , owned by the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta.
Winnebago Indian News (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska )[ 90]
Worage (Otoe-Missouria Tribe )[ 5]
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^ "Alaska Native News: For the First People of the Last Frontier" . Alaska Native News . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
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^ "Anchorage Native News" . Southcentral Foundation . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ "Anishinabek News: Voice of the Anishinabek Nation" . Anishinabek News . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Anishinaabeg Today" . White Earth Nation . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ "Apache Drum Beat" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 12 June 2024 .
^ "Apache Drum Beat" . Arizona Memory Project . Retrieved 12 June 2024 .
^ "A:shiwi A:wan Messenger" . Pueblo of Zuni . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ "Bá-yak The Talking Raven" . Quileute Tribe talkingraven.org . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "The Bacone Indian" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Biskinik" . Choctaw Nation . Retrieved 8 June 2024 .
^ "Char-Koosta News" . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Chaticks Si Chaticks - Pawnee Nation News" . Pawnee Nation . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "The Circle: Native American News and Arts" . The Circle . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Tribune" . Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Tribune . Retrieved 8 June 2024 .
^ "Chickawaw Times" . Chickasaw.net . Retrieved 8 June 2024 .
^ "Comanche Nation News" . Comanche Nation . Retrieved 8 June 2024 .
^ "Dakota tawaxitku kin" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 12 June 2024 .
^ "The Discourse" . The Discourse . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Eehisi iiyaayankwi" . Peoria Tribe of Oklahoma . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Newsletters" . Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe . Retrieved 9 June 2024 .
^ "First Nations Drum" . First Nations Drum . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "About The Fort Apache scout. [volume] (Whiteriver, Ariz.) 1962-current" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 12 June 2024 .
^ "Gila River Indian News: Serving all seven districts" . Gila River Indian News . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "The Turtle Speaks - Gyah'-Wish Atak-ia" (PDF) . Wyandotte Nation . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ "Ha-Shilth-Sa: Canada's Oldest First Nation's Newspaper" . Ha-Shilth-Sa . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "High Country News wins 23 National Native media awards" . High Country News . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Hocak Worak: Covering the Ho-Chunk Nation" . Hocack Worak . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Hopi Action News (Keams Canyon, Ariz.)" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "News: Hownikan" . Citizen Potawatomi Nation . Retrieved 8 June 2024 .
^ "Indianz" . Indianz . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Kalihwisaks – She Looks For News" . Oneida Nation . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Kaw Nation: People of the Southwind" . Kaw Nation . Retrieved 9 June 2024 .
^ "Publications" . St. Regis Mohawk Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Klah-Che-Min Newsletters" . Squaxin Island Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Klamath Tribal News" . The Klamath Tribes . Retrieved 9 June 2024 .
^ "Ku'ku'kwes News: Independent Indigenous News" . Kukukwes.com . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Facebook turned off the news in Canada. What happened next?" . The Economist . 16 May 2024. Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Lakota Times" . Lakota Times . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Little River Currents Newsletter" . Little River Band of Ottawa Indians .
^ "Manataba Messenger" . Colorado River Indian Tribes . Retrieved 8 June 2024 .
^ "The Meskwaki Nation's Monthly Newsletter" . Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Miisaniinawind (This is who we are)" . Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians . Retrieved 12 July 2024 .
^ "Mvskoke Media" . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Newsletter" . Shoalwater Bay Indian Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "The Native Nevadan" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "The Native Press" . The Native Press . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Native Public Media: Our Mission" . Native Public Media . Retrieved 15 October 2024 .
^ "Native Voices: Native People's Concepts of Health and Illness" . National Institute of Health . Retrieved 15 October 2024 .
^ "Native Times" . Native Times . Retrieved 15 October 2024 .
^ "The Native Tribe of Kanatak" . Native Tribe of Kanatak . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Searching Native American Newspapers in Chronicling America" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 12 June 2024 .
^ "Newsletter" . Ninilchik Village Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "O'odham Action News" . O'odham Action News . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Papago Indian News" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 12 June 2024 .
^ "The Progress" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 12 June 2024 .
^ "Rawhide Press" . Spokane Tribe of Indians . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Sac and Fox News" . Sac and Fox Nation . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "The Seminole Tribune: Official Newspaper of the Seminole Tribe of Florida" . Seminole Tribune . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
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^ "Shawnee Journal archives" . Shawnee Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Latest News" . Shawnee Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Siletz News" . Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians . Retrieved 8 June 2024 .
^ "Newsletters" . Susanville Indian Rancheria . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Snee-Nee-Chum Newsletter" . Nooksack Indian Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Sounder" . Snokomish Indian Nation . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "News" . Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "The Southern Ute Drum" . The Southern Ute Drum . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "News" . Kashia Pomo Tribal Government . Retrieved 9 June 2024 .
^ "The Supai Weekly News" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 12 June 2024 .
^ "Suquamish News" . Suquamish Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Syecem" . Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "Tangirnaq Times Newsletter" . Woody Island . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ "The Tomahawk" . Library of Congress . Retrieved 12 June 2024 .
^ "Tribal Tribune" . Tribal Tribune . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Tribal Newsletter" . Central Council: Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ "Tribal Observer" . Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe . Retrieved 10 June 2024 .
^ "The Voice of CLUSI" . Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Indians . Retrieved 8 June 2024 .
^ "Wawatay News: Ontario's First Nation Voice" . Wawatay News . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Wiikwedong Dazhi-Ojibwe: The Keweenaw Bay Ojibwe" (PDF) . Ojibwa.com . Retrieved 9 June 2024 .
^ "Wichita Tribal Newsletters" . Wichita and Affiliated Tribes . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .
^ "Win Awenen Nisitotung" . Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians . Retrieved 7 June 2024 .
^ "Winnebago Indian News" . Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska . Retrieved 11 June 2024 .