Aarthi Velmurugan, an orphaned tribal girl from Sittilingi in Dharmapuri district, has qualified in the Joint Entrance Examination (Mains) and has applied for JEE (Advanced), fighting all odds.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/orphaned-tribal-girl-fights-odds-for-higher-education/article66823434.ece

A bandh will be organized in the tribal region of Gujarat on Sunday in protest against caste violence and atrocities against women in Manipur.

Source: https://www.weeklyblitz.net/news/congress-calls-for-bandh-over-manipur-violence-supports-it/

According to Lars Krutak, an anthropologist who has studied Indigenous tattooing in about 35 countries, tattoos in those cultures were frequently used to signify tribal identity, as well as to mark rites of passage.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/lifestyle/art-and-culture/cool-tribal-tattoo-is-it-from-the-90s-8624192/

According to Sudan Tribune news agency, the RSF has deployed heavily in Nyala since the beginning of October, mobilizing thousands of tribal fighters from Central, West, and East Darfur to support them in overthrowing the army leadership in South Darfur.

Source: https://www.eyeradio.org/sudans-rsf-captures-nyala-in-fierce-fighting-with-army/

Accra, Nov. 16, GNA – President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged Ghanaians to be wary of politicians whose sole aim is to incite tribal and religious sentiments.

Source: https://www.ghanamma.com/2023/11/16/politicians-who-stoke-tribal-religious-sentiments-have-no-message-president-akufo-addo/

A collector has the right to give permission to sell tribal land.

Source: https://www.freepressjournal.in/bhopal/bhopal-fir-against-ias-officers-in-tribal-land-sale-puts-political-kettle-on-the-boil

Across the other Lower 48 states, tribal economic development demonstrably into neighboring nontribal communities, improving the abilities of tribes and state and local governments to serve their citizens.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/02/19/commentary-tribes-in-maine-left-out-of-native-american-resurgence-by-40-year-old-federal-law/

Additionally, activists from the community say that this will come at a loss for Dalit, Bahujan and Adivasi transgender persons, as they will have to make a choice between availing reservation either based on caste and tribal identity or gender identity.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/explained/explained-law/transgender-demand-horizontal-reservation-explained-8694004/

Addressing a public meeting in Seoni district of MP ahead of the State elections, PM Modi said the Congress, despite being in power for five-six decades in the country after Independence, did not do anything for the welfare of the tribal community.

Source: https://www.thehindu.com/elections/madhya-pradesh-assembly/two-senior-congress-leaders-fighting-to-establish-their-sons-capture-party-in-mp-pm-modi/article67500566.ece

Addressing the Jan Aakrosh Yatra here, Bhuria accused the government of neglecting the welfare and rights of tribal communities, Dalits, and farmers.

Source: https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/people-will-uproot-arrogant-bjp-govt-bhuria

All religions and all denominations struggle not to make God tribal, biased, and lacking in full love and understanding.

Source: http://bellevillemessenger.org/2023/01/the-one-and-the-many-ecumenical-and-interfaith-relations/

And despite a clear judgment from Justice Neil Gorsuch, who authored the McGirt decision, that Congress is the only body that can change tribal boundaries, federal lawmakers have shown little interest in doing so.

Source: https://pagosadailypost.com/2023/08/31/three-years-after-landmark-ruling-congress-silent-on-tribal-jurisdiction-in-oklahoma/

And Lower Elwha Klallam tribal members on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula fished a free-flowing Elwha River for the first time in 112 years.

Source: https://www.hcn.org/articles/indigenous-affairs-2023-in-native-environmental-news

Apart from this scheme, the party has also been celebrating tribal icons such as Rani Durgavati, Shankar Shah and his son Raghunath Shah.

Source: https://indianexpress.com/article/political-pulse/tribal-groups-mp-pm-speech-9017245/

Archeologists dated the burial to between 1400 and 1640 A.D. “Shinnecock tribal members argued against further disruption of the soil, seeing the proposed barn as a cemetery site,” Dennis wrote.

Source: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/a-landscape-shared-by-native-americans-and-the-one-per-cent

A sense of hope descended on Maine last week as the leaders of our state’s tribal nations addressed a joint session of the Legislature.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/03/19/our-view-42/

As gold was discovered in Colorado, white settlers flooded the tribal lands and tensions reached fever pitch.

Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/18/arts/design/colorado-sand-creek-massacre.html

As part of Operation Samadhan-Prahar, the government has established military camps in the tribal areas.

Source: https://ummid.com/news/2023/april/23.04.2023/operation-samadhan-prahar-and-the-changing-nature-of-indian-state.html

As ProPublica reported this year, in September 2021, curators dismantled much of the exhibit at the request of tribal partners, who wished to see the items reunited with the ancestors they were buried with before their repatriation.

Source: https://www.propublica.org/article/illinois-law-gives-tribal-nations-repatriation-reburial-power

A study released this year by the Harvard Kennedy School concluded that Maine’s settlement agreement is hampering tribal economies, which grew only 9% from 1989 to 2020 compared to 61% for the tribes in the 47 other contiguous states.

Source: https://www.centralmaine.com/2023/03/16/tribal-leaders-speak-to-joint-session-of-maine-legislature/