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Graham Lee Brewer.

Ruth De La Cruz, food sovereignty director at Nueta Hidatsa Sahnish College, sorts through squash in an office at the school Thursday, Oct. 30, 2025, in New Town, N.D. (AP Photo/John Locher)

Tribal college leaders are uneasy about US financial commitments despite a funding increase

November 17, 2025

Tribal citizens are among communities navigating the impacts of massive cuts in federal spending and the effects of the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. A funding increase for tribal colleges and universities before the shutdown was welcome news, but college leaders remain uneasy about the government’s financial commitments. Those federal dollars are part of some of the country’s oldest legal obligations. Tribal college and university presidents and Native education advocates worry they could be further eroded and the passage of Indigenous knowledge they ensure will be threatened.

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FILE - Cut down trees lie near the Cordillera Azul National Park in Peru's Amazon Forest on Oct. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Martin Mejia, File)

Cuts to USAID severed longstanding American support for Indigenous people around the world

June 4, 2025

The effort to protect the Peruvian Amazon from deforestation related to the cocaine trade was long supported by financial assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development. The agency spent billions of dollars starting in the 1980s to help farmers in Peru shift from growing coca for cocaine production to legal crops such as coffee and cacao for chocolate. But the Trump administration’s recent sweeping cuts have thrown that tradition of U.S. assistance into doubt. Without American help, Indigenous people in the Amazon are worried. They are bracing for a resurgence of the cocaine market, increased threats to their land and potentially violent challenges to their human rights.

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