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Wednesday, December 15, 2021

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Colorado River near Moab, Utah (Photo by: Evangelio Gonzalez via Flickr/CC)

Tribal officials called for more consultation at a conference on the Colorado River

The Canadian government said it would set aside billions of dollars to compensate Indigenous people who faced abuse in the country’s residential schools

Tuesday, December 14, 2021

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Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt in 2020 (Photo: by Shealah Craighead; official White House Photo)

Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt upends tribal hunting and fishing compacts

Patients and staff at a New Mexico hospital with a predominantly Native patient base express concerns over what they say is a declining levels of service

NDN Collective awarded a $50-million grant from the Bush Foundation

Friday, November 26, 2021

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The work of Ojibwe artist George Morrison will be featured on a series of U.S. postage stamps in 2022 (Photo: Morrison in 1990. Photo by Tom Attridge via Wikimedia Commons)

A Washington university adopts a consultation and consent policy

A renowned Ojibwe artist is honored by the U.S. Postal Service

Dave Anderson shares his key to happiness

Wednesday, November 24, 2021

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The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Review Committee finds there is a ‘preponderance of evidence for cultural affiliation’ between ancestors’ remains held by the University of Alabama and seven tribes working to have them returned
(Photo: by Altairisfar (Jeffrey Reed) via Wikimedia Commons)

A federal panel rules ancestors’ remains held by the University of Alabama are connected to tribes wanting them returned

Tribes are urging caution over COVID-19 heading into the holidays

Joy Harjo attributes her success to family

Lakota elder Marcella LaBeau remembered as war hero, health policy leader

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Lakota elder and health advocate Marcella LaBeau died on Nov. 21. She is seen here in 2019 holding a picture of her great-grandfather, speaking on behalf of the effort to rescind medals from solders who participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre (Photo: RepDebHaaland Twitter post).

Noted Lakota elder Marcella Labeau has died. She was a decorated World War 2 veteran serving as a nurse in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps where she helped soldiers injured during the Normandy landings. A citizen of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe she served on that nation’s council for four years in the early 1990s. She was inducted into the Native American Hall of Fame on Nov. 6, 2021 at age 102. She told Native America Calling producer Andi Murphy how much she appreciated the recognition.

“I’ve had many honors in my life. But to be honored by Native American people is the greatest honor I’ve received,” LaBeau said.

Labeau served as the director of nursing at the Eagle Butte IHS hospital. Among other things she was known for her leadership in health policy and wellness. In a written statement, South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem wrote: “As a proud member of the Lakota, Wigmunke Waste Win (Pretty Rainbow Woman) served both her community and her country as a member of the Greatest Generation. Her service as a nurse during World War II has been chronicled by historians. Her dedication as a nurse in the Indian Health Services for more than 30 years has left a legacy that will live in our hearts and minds forever.”

In 2020, USA Today profiled LaBeau as one of the Women of the Century.

In recent years she was also a champion of the effort to rescind the Medals of Honor awarded to the soldiers who participated in the Wounded Knee massacre on the Pine Ridge Reservation in 1890. At the Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Candidates Forum in 2019, she asked each of the candidates the same question: whether they would support the Remove the Stain Act.

“On the Cheyenne River Reservation, there is a pervasive sadness because of Wounded Knee and what happened there,” LaBeau told the candidates at the forum. “There has never been closure” she said, and taking away the medals would go a long way toward healing. Flanked by then-Representative Debra Haaland, she made the same case to lawmakers in Washington, D.C.

Labeau celebrated her 102nd birthday in October before traveling to the First Americans Museum in Oklahoma where she was inducted with seven others into the Native American Hall of Fame. She died Sunday, Nov. 21.

Tuesday, November 23, 2021

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Lakota elder and health advocate Marcella LaBeau died on Nov. 21. She is seen here in 2019 holding a picture of her great-grandfather, speaking on behalf of the effort to rescind medals from solders who participated in the Wounded Knee Massacre (Photo: RepDebHaaland Twitter post).

The Department of Interior tackles derogatory place names

So far, Savanna’s Act, adopted to combat the Missing and Murdered Indigenous People crisis, has not met a mandated deadline

Noted Lakota Elder Marcella LaBeau is remembered as a war hero and dedicated health policy advocate

Monday, November 22, 2021

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Sarah Wheelock (Meskwaki) is the first Native American appointed to the Minnesota Court of Appeals.

Tribes say years of bureaucratic red tape are hindering repatriation of remains from the University of Alabama

One tribal leader is critical of the Biden Administration’s Tribal summit

Minnesota appoints its first Native American Appellate judge

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