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Thursday, May 4, 2017

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Known as Lake Calhoun for nearly 200 years,
Minneapolis’ landmark lake is a step closer to being called the Dakota name Bde Maka Ska (photo: Minneapolis Parks and Recreation Board)

New police chief hired in Winslow, Arizona just over a year after the fatal police shooting of a Navajo woman

Landmark Minneapolis lake a step closer to changing name from Calhoun to Dakota Bde Maka Ska

Oregon country fair opts not to install a Native American-style totem pole

A Manitoba First Nation is returning home six years after floodwaters drove them out

Wednesday, May 3, 2017

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Beer trucks line up outside the Jumping Bull liquor store in Whiteclay, Neb. to remove product after the store’s liquor license expired over the weekend (Photo: Bruce BonFleur).

As Whiteclay, Neb. liquor stores close, the legal battles continue

At least two Native American Congressional candidates have their eyes on 2018 elections

A drive-in restaurant chain makes an advertising blunder

Tuesday, May 2, 2017

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The Andrew Hope Building in downtown Juneau, Alaska is among the parcels that the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska is proposing to put in trust. (Photo-Ed Schoenfeld/CoastAlaska News)

British Columbia’s government takes next step in legal battle with tribe

Quebec communities appear in court in bid to prevent land transfer 

Alaska tribal organization waits for decision on land into trust application

Monday, May 1, 2017

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Miss Indian World Raven Swamp (Mohawk) is interviewed at a press conference shortly after being crowned on Saturday, April 29, 2017 in Albuquerque, New Mexico. (Photo-Antonia Gonzales)

Indigenous anti-nuke group organizer takes part in climate march

Tribal leaders and federal officials to focus on energy sovereignty

My Brother’s Keeper Alliance hosts event for young Native men

Mohawk woman from Canada crowned Miss Indian World

 

Friday, April 28, 2017

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Araceli Spotted Thunder overcame the adversity in her life to become one of 7 Red Cloud High School students to be awarded the Horatio Alger Scholarship.

Native student group at Montana college and ACLU work on human rights complaint

Seven students from Pine Ridge reservation picked for Horatio Alger scholarships

Thursday, April 27, 2017

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The Red Cloud Indian School’s Lakota Language Immersion Kindergarten Class makes one-on-one teaching easily achievable. (Photo-Red Cloud Indian School)

First Nation community is in shock after violent crime posted on social media

First director of Montana Indian health resigns says state lacks commitment

Lakota immersion program introduced at Catholic school on Pine Ridge reservation 

Wednesday, April 26, 2017

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Marijuana plants sit in an Ultra Health facility in Bernalillo, New Mexico. The medical cannabis grower is hosing a workshop for tribes to discuss the cannabis and hemp industry. (Photo-Antonia Gonzales)

South Dakota energy director says federal assistance program not eliminated yet

Medical cannabis grower reaches out to tribes touting economic opportunities

Supreme Court rules in tribal sovereignty case involving individual employee

Tuesday, April 25, 2017

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Federal officials discuss the trafficking of bird parts.  Left to right: Assistant U.S. Attorneys Meghan Dilges and Eric Kelderman, U.S. Attorney Randy Seiler and assistant special agent with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Dan Rolince.  (Photo-Lee Strubinger, South Dakota Public Broadcasting)

15 charged with trafficking eagle parts in South Dakota

World Indigenous leaders reflect on 10 years of UNDRIP 

Health kids, healthy futures event to be held in Santa Fe

Monday, April 24, 2017

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Blackfeet Nation voters ratify a 471-million dollar water rights compact

A new report finds more rural Native residents than urban dwellers

Remembering noted Pueblo author and historian Herman Agoyo

Friday, April 21, 2017

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The Cherokee Nation takes pharmaceutical companies to tribal court over opioid addiction

Political struggles come to a head for the top leader of the Eastern Band of Cherokee

Missing women and girls advocates in Canada are express disappointment over meeting delays

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