More than 5 million Native Americans live in the United States as members of 574 federally recognized and 63 state-recognized tribes. That number is projected to rise to 10 million by 2060. A federally recognized tribe is a sovereign entity with a government-to-government relationship with the United States, as well as the rights of self-governance in such areas as tribal law and taxation. Just 13% of Native Americans live within 324 recognized reservations. Land held in trust by the U.S. government for Native American settlement is roughly 56 million acres. The 16 million-acre Navajo Nation Reservation in Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah is the largest, and the 1.32-acre Pit River Tribe cemetery in California is the smallest.
Roxy Sprowl is the 13th Udall Scholar to be named from Michigan State University. Sprowl is an Honors College junior majoring in social work in the College of Social Science with minors in race and ethnicity of the United States, and American Indian and Indigenous Studies. She plans to pursue a future devoted to preserving Indigenous sovereignty, advancing Indigenous leadership, and advocating for Indigenous youth and communities. Sprowl is Ojibwe from the Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians.
Those are your headlines at this hour. I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.
