Founded in 1981 as the weekly print newspaper Lakota Times, the publication's name changed in 1992 to Indian Country Today.

[1] In 1989 the newspaper's offices moved to Rapid City, South Dakota, and in 1992 Giago changed the publication's name to Indian Country Today.

On July 24, 2019, the publication's headquarters moved to the campus of the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University in Phoenix.

Trahant wrote on social media that he would be hiring a team to build a televised news program and improve Indian Country Today's national report.

[14] On March 26, 2021, ownership of Indian Country Today was transferred from NCAI to an Arizona 501(c)(3) organization, IndiJ Public Media, led by Karen Michel (Ho-Chunk).