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The Native Ledger

Teddy McCullough

Independent reporting on Native health, justice, and sovereignty. Real stories from Indian Country, backed by research and grounded in truth.

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A Blueprint for Solving Cold Cases of Missing Native Relatives

Maria David still has her father’s half-finished puppets, carvings meant to tell Tla-o-qui-aht stories that now will never be told. It took nine years to convict his killer.

George David was a master carver. Born into the Tla-o-qui-aht Fir...

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Big Tech Is Coming for Tribal Land. Some Tribes Are Saying Yes.

In December 2025, the Department of Energy announced plans to build nuclear-powered AI data centers on federal land. One of the first sites selected was Idaho National Laboratory, an 890-square-mile facility on the ancestral homeland of the...

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"We Are the Land": Denver's First American Indian History, Told by the People Who Lived It

The City of Denver has published hundreds of pages of official history over the decades. Until this month, not one of those pages was written by or with American Indian people.

That changed on February 4, 2026, when Denver’s Landmark Prese...

3 months ago
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When Culture Becomes the Cure: Rethinking Prison Reentry

In Oklahoma, where more Native Americans are incarcerated than in any other state, one tribal nation has been running an experiment in criminal justice reform for over a decade. The results challenge basic assumptions about rehabilitation....

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The IHS Forcibly Sterilized Thousands of Native American Women. No State Has Ever Investigated. Until Now.

In 1972, Jean Whitehorse went to the Indian Health Service hospital in Gallup, New Mexico, with a ruptured appendix. She was 22 years old and a new mother. She left unable to ever have children again.

“The nurse held the pen in my hand,” W...

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