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Monday, August 21, 2017

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Judge Abby Abinanti in Yurok Country. A PBS documentary premiers August 21 featuring tribal judges in California working to restore communities and affirm tribal sovereignty. (Photo-Anne Makepeace)

People relocating to new Alaska village look forward to moving day

Documentary features tribal judges working to restore communities

Navajo people follow traditional practices involving solar eclipse

Friday, August 18, 2017

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Nicolai Chase, 16, gets ready to set up a net at a culture and science camp in Alaska. (Photo-Christine Trudeau)

Native young people set off on canoe journey to protest plans to replace oil pipeline

Native woman in New Mexico announces bid for Republican lt. governor seat

Culture camp in Alaska teaches both Native traditional knowledge and science

California bill signed into law for Native students to attend community college

Thursday, August 17, 2017

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One of Thunder Valley Community Development Corporation’s projects on the Pine Ridge reservation is the construction of a Regenerative Community.  It will include 21 single-family homes and Pow Wow grounds.

Native Americans protest docking of replica Columbus ships in Michigan

Native Americans and environmentalists see value in national monuments

North Dakota’s governor travels to reservations to meet with tribal leaders

Thunder Valley Community Development celebrates 10-year anniversary

Wednesday, August 16, 2017

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Confederate Memorial in Helena, Montana. Native American lawmakers are calling for its removal. (Photo-Wikimedia Commons)

Native American lawmakers in Montana call for the removal of Confederate memorial

Families of missing and murdered Indigenous women demand for reset of commission

Tuesday, August 15, 2017

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Heavy equipment is moving earth in the small Nebraska town of Whiteclay as preparations are made for the grand opening of a Family Dollar store. (Photo-Jim Kent)

Alaska court case claims jury selection discriminates against rural Native communities

Clean up continues in Whiteclay, Nebraska months after closure of town’s liquor stores

 

Monday, August 14, 2017

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KSUT Executive Director Tami Graham in the KSUT studio. The Southern Ute Tribe pledged $1 million in matching grants to the station for a new tribal media center (Photo: Jeremy Wade Shockley/The Southern Ute Drum)

A Muscogee Creek man going on trial for murder asks a judge to toss his case after a recent Oklahoma jurisdiction ruling

The Stillaguamish Tribe maintains sovereign immunity in a lawsuit over liability for a deadly landslide

The Southern Ute Tribe commits a million dollars to radio station’s plans for new tribal media center

Solar and wind power donation aids Ramapough Lenape Tribe in occupation of Mahwah prayer site

Friday, August 11, 2017

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Private 1st Class John Elk (Standing Rock Sioux), in 1919 serving in Company D, 139th Infantry Regiment. United Tribes Technical College is planning to honor Native American servicemen from North Dakota tribes. (Photo: British National Archives)

 The Yankton Sioux tribe says its due process rights were violated during a hearing on the Keystone XL pipeline in Nebraska Thursday

Ten states are joining a legal fight against a California tribe over groundwater rights

United Tribes Technical College seeks information about North Dakota Native American veterans of World War I

The White Earth Nation is looking at hemp production for their economic development

Thursday, August 10, 2017

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Athabascan artist Audrey Armstrong pulls a fish skin to demonstrate its durability. She led a class at the Sitka Arts and Science Festival on how to weave Athabascan-style baskets. (Sarah Gibson/KCAW photo)

Authorities have named a suspect in a meth-related killing that shook the Crow Nation last week

A major ruling by a federal court reaffirms the Muscogee Creek Nation’s jurisdiction over its tribal land

An Athabaskan artist revives the tradition of making fish skin baskets

Wednesday, August 9, 2017

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The Dakota Access Pipeline under construction last year in South Dakota (Photo: Lars Plougmann via Flickr/CC)

A man accused in last year’s murder of a Crow Agency woman is deemed mentally competent to stand trial

Two tribes are asking a judge to shut down the Dakota Access Pipeline pending more environmental review

The Cherokee Nation aims to eliminate Hepatitis C

Native language revitalization funding program expected to draw competitive application process

Tuesday, August 8, 2017

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Navajo Nation President Russell Begaye (seated, right) and Vice President Jonathan Nez sign a resolution making human trafficking within Navajo boundaries a criminal offense (Photo: Twitter via @VPNez)

Indigenous environmental proponents are among those watching Keystone XL pipeline hearings in Nebraska

The U-S EPA says it will not review Gold King Mine spill clean-up claims by the Navajo Nation

New law makes human trafficking a criminal offense on the Navajo Nation

Liquor establishments near the Pine Ridge Reservation see a jump in sales after Whiteclay beer stores close

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