Kevin Abourezk is a higher education reporter for the Lincoln Journal Star and a freelance writer and editor. He has three children and lives in Lincoln, Nebraska.
A federal judge has approved the $3.4 billion Cobell v. Salazar settlement, sparking a nationwide search for hundreds of thousands of Native Americans whose names have been lost by the government. Two weeks after President Obama signed the... Read More... about Judge Gives Nod to Cobell Settlement
A grassroots Native organization that recruits and supports Indian candidates is closing its doors after failing to gain sponsors. INDN’s List began in 2005 as a way to get more Indian candidates elected throughout the country. President Kalyn Free... Read More... about Native Political Group Calls It Quits
President Barack Obama announced Thursday at the White House Tribal Nations Conference that his administration will support the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The announcement removes the United States as the only remaining... Read More... about Obama to support U.N. native rights declaration