List of Indigenous newspapers in North America

This List of Indigenous newspapers in North America is a dynamic list of newspapers 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.

A

• Ag’wanermiut kasitaq, Afognak Native Village, Alaska
• Akwesasne Notes, Mohawk Nation, Akwesasne, Ontario, Quebec, New York (1968–1998)
• Ak-Chin O'odham Runner Ak Chin Indian Community, Maricopa, Arizona)
• Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas Newsletter, Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
• Alaska Native News (For the First People of the Last Frontier)
• APTN National News (Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada)
• Anishinabek News (monthly community newspaper is produced by the Communications Unit of the Anishinabek Nation at the head office in Nipissing First Nation)

B

• The Bacone Indian and The Baconian, Bacone College, Muskogee, Oklahoma
• Bah Kho-Je Journal, Iowa Tribe of Oklahoma, Perkins, OK
• Bay Mills News, Bay Mills Indian Community
• Birch Creek Tribal Council Newsletter, Birch Creek Tribe, Alaska
• Biskinik, (Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma), Durant, Oklahoma
• Bishop Paiute Tribe Newsletter, Bishop Paiute Tribe
• Bois Forte News, Bois Forte Band of Chippewa

C

• Char-Kootsa News, the official news of the Flathead Reservation
• Cherokee Phoenix (Cherokee Advocate) and Cherokee Voices, Tahlequah, Oklahoma
• The Circle, (newspaper with an Indigenous perspective based in Minneapolis)
• Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribal Tribune, (bi-monthly news publication for tribal citizens), El Reno, Oklahoma
• Chickasaw Times, (official publication of the Chickasaw Nation), Ada, Oklahoma
• Comanche Nation News (Comanche Nation), Lawton, Oklahoma
• Coyote Valley Tribal News (Coyote Valley Band of Pomo Indians), Redwood Valley, CA

D

• DeBahJiMon, Leech Lake Band of Obijwe, Cass Lake, MN
• Delaware Indian News, Delaware Tribe of Indians, Bartlesville, OK
• The Discourse, journalism to underserved communities, including Indigenous communities in British Columbia
• Duckwater Quarterly Newsletter, Duckwater Shoshone Tribe, Duckwater, NV

E

• The Eastern Door (Kahnawake (Mohawk), Canada)
• Elwha News, (Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe) ʔéʔɬx̣ʷaʔ nəxʷsƛ̕áy̕əm̕ – The Strong People, Port Angeles, Washington

F

• First Nations Drum newspaper (Canada's largest Indigenous newspaper)

G

• Gam-yu, Hualapai Tribe of Arizona, Peach Springs, AZ
• Gila River Indian News, Gila River Indian Community, Sacaton, AZ

H

• Hannahville Happenings, Hannahville Indian Community, 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
• High Country News, received 23 National Native media awards
• Hocak Worak, Ho-Chunk Nation, Black River Falls, WI
• Hoh Tribe Newsletter, Hoh Tribe, Forks, WA
• Hopi Action News, Hopi Tribe, Hopitutskwa, AZ
• Hopi Tutuveni, Hopi Tribe Kykostmovi, AZ
• Hownikan, Citizen Potawatomi Nation, Shawnee, OK

I

• 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, owned by Noble Savage Media, LLC and Ho-Chunk, Inc., Winnebago, NE
• Isleta Pueblo News, Isleta Pueblo Isleta, NM

J

Jamul Newsletter, (Jamul Indian Village), one of 12 federally recognized tribes that make up the Kumeyaay Nation of Southern California.

K

• Kanza News, (Kaw Nation)
• Kawerak, (Kawerak, Inc. Bering Strait Native Association) Bering Strait region, Northwest Alaska, just south of the Arctic Circle
• Klamath News, Klamath Tribal News Dwaa nee pqa (what’s happening), (Klamath – Modoc – Yahooskin)
• KTO news, (Kickapoo Tribe of Oklahoma) monthly newsletter
• Ku'ku'kwes (news website dedicated to covering Indigenous news in Atlantic Canada)

L

• Lakota Times, Pine Ridge Reservation, South Dakota
• Little River Currents (Little River Band of Ottawa Indians)

M

• Manataba Messenger (Colorado River Indian Tribes, a federally recognized tribe consisting of the four distinct ethnic groups associated with the Colorado River Indian Reservation: the Mohave, Chemehuevi, Hopi, and Navajo), published in Parker, Arizona
• Me-Ya-Whae, Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
• Mvskoke Media, (voice of the Mvskoke people) publisher of Muscogee Nation News,

N

• Nahgahehiwanog Dibahjimowinnau, Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, Peshawbestown, MI
• National Native News, Koahnic Broadcasting Corp. Albuquerque, NM
• Native Nevadan, Inter-Tribal Council of Nevada
• Native News Online, a subsidiary of Indian Country Media
• The Native Press (Independent news organization)
• Navajo-Hopi Observer, Flagstaff, AZ
• Navajo Times, Navajo Nation, Window Rock, AZ
• News from Native California, intertribal magazine, Berkeley, CA
• 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
• Nunatsiaq News, newspaper of record for Nunavut and the Nunavik territory of Quebec)

O

• Odawa Trails, (Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians)
• O'odham Action News, Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community
• Osage News, Osage Nation, Pawhuska, Oklahoma

R

• Rawhide Press (Spokane Tribe, City of Spokane, Washington)
• Red Rocks Reporter, (Jemez Pueblo), New Mexico

S

• 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. In 2019 the Seminole Tribune received a National Native Media Award.
• Siletz News (Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians),
• Skitkomiq nutacomit, Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians, Littleton, ME
• Smoke Signals (Confederated Tribe of Grande Ronde), Grand Ronde, Oregon
• Smoke Signals (Kaibab Band of Paiute Indians), Fredonia, Arizona
• The Southern Ute Drum (Southern Ute Tribe, Colorado, New Mexico) In 2019 the Southern Ute Drum received a National Native Media Award.
• Strong People, (Jamestown S'Klallam Tribe of Washington)
• Su’Nu’Nu’Shinal, (Kashia Band of Pomo Indians)

T

• Tribal Business News (A subsidiary of Indian Country Media)
• Tribal Tribune (tribal newspaper owned by the federally-recognized Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, received a 2019 National Native Media Award.
• Tu-Kwa Hone Newsletter, Burns Paiute Tribe
• Turtle Island News (based out of the Grand River Territory of the Six Nations)
• The Two Row Times, news publication, Ontario Indigenous peoples as well as Haudenosaunee peoples of the US

V

• Voice of CTCLUSI (Confederated Tribes of Coos, Lower Umpqua & Siuslaw Indians), Coos Bay, Oregon

W

• Wasatun wi, (Lower Sioux Indian Community)
• Wiikwedong Dazhi-Ojibwe, (Keweenaw Bay Indian Community)
• Wawatay News (published in both English and Indigenous languages of northern Ontario, including Ojibway, Oji-Cree, and Cree)
• Win Awenen Nisitotung, the Sault Tribe Newspaper (Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan)
• Windspeaker, owned by the Aboriginal Multi-Media Society of Alberta.

Y

• Yooyoola!, Cowlitz Indian Tribe), Longview, WA

See also

• Native American newspapers
• Native American journals
• Native American Journalists Association
• List of Indigenous periodicals in Canada

External links

• Native American Tribal Resources and Newspapers: Online U.S. Tribal Newsletters and Newspapers, Edmon Low Library, Oklahoma State University
• Indigenous Newspapers in North America, Sequoyah National Research Center, University of Arkansas–Little Rock