More than one quarter of the staff members at the only two federally run colleges for Native students were cut in February.

The lawsuit was filed against the heads of the Interior Department, the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the Office of Indian Education Programs.

A coalition of tribal nations and students is suing the federal government over major cuts to a pair of colleges and a federal agency serving Native American students. The staffing cuts, part of President Donald Trump’s effort to reduce the federal workforce,

A lawsuit was lodged against the Trump administration over DOGE's mass firings at the country's only two federally run colleges for Native students.