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Friday, September 29, 2017

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An empty street in Whiteclay, Nebraska, June 2017, more than a month after the town’s four beer stores closed doors. The Nebraska Supreme Court has ruled the stores will remain close. (Photo-Antonia Gonzales)

Nebraska Supreme Court rules against Whiteclay beer store owners

Hawaii board approves permit for telescope to be built on Mauna Kea

People on Wind River reservation discuss repatriation from Carlisle

Events planned across Canada to acknowledge Orange Shirt Day

 

Thursday, September 28, 2017

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Employees of the VA Black Hills Health Care System held a rally in Sturgis, S.D. to protest the 49,000 positions the Department of Veterans Affairs needs to fill nationwide citing direct impacts to patient care in the Black Hills and for Native veterans on nearby reservations. (Photo-courtesy Tina Porterfield)

Employees say VA understaffing in Black Hills impacts Native veterans

Archeologists and volunteers in Alaska work to save artifacts from site

Unofficial results show Standing Rock Sioux citizens elect new chairman

Wednesday, September 27, 2017

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National Congress of American Indians President Brian Cladoosby. NCAI recently formed an alliance with the immigrant organization Define American. (Photo-NCAI Twitter)

Democratic Senators advocate for Indian health care on Senate floor

Brown and group occupying university owned land reach agreement

Native and immigrant groups form an alliance to advocate together

Oregon tribes receive more than one million dollars from HUD

 

Tuesday, September 26, 2017

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Native people recently held a ceremony for renovated totem poles in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo-Brian Bull)

Some city councils in the West consider Indigenous Peoples Day

Native people in Eugene hold resetting ceremony for totem poles

Bethel man incorporates his Native language into technology

Senate Indian Affairs Committee to examine human trafficking

Monday, September 25, 2017

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Sculptor Masayuki Nagase included images relevant to the Lakota culture in the project “Passage of Wind and Water,” which is now complete in Rapid City, S.D. (Photo-courtesy of Masayuki Nagase)

Native people in Canada react to the prime minister’s UN speech

Artist completes Passage of Wind and Water sculpture in South Dakota

Grand opening set for Native American center at University of Wyoming

Friday, September 22, 2017

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Officials in Wellsville City, Utah are rethinking their Founders’ Day event that includes residents painting their bodies red to portray Native Americans during a ‘reenactment’ of history (Photo: screenshot of 2010 Wellsville City Founders’ Day parade video)

Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau vows to partner with indigenous communities addressing climate change

A Utah town plans changes to its long-standing Founders’ Day commemoration that included residents painted red, portraying Native Americans.

Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price hosted a Tribal Advisory Committee in Oklahoma

Biologists from the Yurok Tribe are monitoring the recovery of California condors.

Thursday, September 21 2017

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A South Dakota Army National Guard helicopter helps battle a fire in this 2012 photo. Pine Ridge and other areas in South Dakota are bracing for the possibility of wildfires as drought conditions drag on (Photo: Master Sgt. Don Matthews, U.S. Army via Wikimedia CC)

The Pine Ridge reservation is among areas in South Dakota on high alert for wildfires

The American Indian Science and Engineering Society in Denver is trying to inspire more native students to pursue STEM courses

Some fisherman in Alaska have nowhere to sell their summer catch

 

 

Wednesday, September 20, 2017

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Members of the Smith family from the Tlowitsis First Nation visit their totem pole in Albuquerque (Photo: Andi Murphy).

The Yankton Sioux Tribe condemns alleged police brutality against a 64-year-old man

An appeals court rules the Osage Nation can seek damages for unauthorized wind farm development

A stolen Canadian totem pole is rededicated at a New Mexico museum

The National Congress of American Indians criticizes British ‘New World Tapestry’ for racist depictions

Tuesday, September 19, 2017

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Tribes are urging the U.S. government to change the name of Hayden Valley in Yellowstone National Park to Buffalo Nations Valley (photo: Wikimedia, Anusia1984)

The U.S. Interior secretary recommends scaling back Bears Ears and other monuments

The likely Republican candidate for Alabama’s Senate seat uses a slur against Native Americans in a campaign speech

Tribal leaders insist on name changes for Yellowstone sites

Monday, September 18, 2017

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Spiderwoman Theater, North America’s longest-running Indigenous theater collective, celebrates its 40th anniversary this week. (photo: Spiderwoman Theater Facebook page)

A judge considers whether to toss the Schaghticoke Tribal Nation’s lawsuit over damages for lost land

North Dakota tribal leaders ask state lawmakers to act on cases of missing and murdered Native women

A look at Standing Rock a year after a crucial time in the Dakota Access Pipeline protests

Nation’s longest-running Indigenous theater collective celebrates 40 years

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