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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Round Valley Tribes receives $8.7 million grant to develop housing
December 12, 2024
High construction costs and limited access to funding have led to a shortage of affordable housing for people on the reservation.
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Native vote could prove critical in Montana U.S. Senate race
November 03, 2024
There are 65,000 eligible Native voters in Montana, but more than 35,000 – more than half – were not registered to vote, according to local organizers.
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President Biden to issue boarding school apology – at last
October 24, 2024
The president will be at Gila River Indian Community to acknowledge the trauma wreaked by U.S. forced assimilation policies.
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Tim Walz heads to Navajo Nation
October 23, 2024
A planned visit to Window Rock, Arizona, this weekend by the Democratic vice presidential nominee continues the Harris-Walz campaign’s outreach to Native voters in the battleground state.
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Tribal nations endorse retention of Oklahoma Supreme Court justices
October 18, 2024
Historically, the justices have ruled in favor of tribal issues.
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Three Affiliated Tribes emergency responders combat 11,000-acre Bear Den Fire
October 07, 2024
‘Neighbors helping neighbors’ to survive blazes raging around Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota.
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‘It’s just what the Cherokee Nation ought to do:’ tribe plans long-term investment in housing
October 01, 2024
The Cherokee Nation voted to permanently reauthorize its 2019 Housing, Jobs and Sustainable Communities Act, which helped fund 2,800 housing and community projects.
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From Indigenous Displacement to Arming Israel- Citizens are Standing Up to Indian Island
September 30, 2024
Under overcast skies, Palestinian flags, banners, and protest signs waved as activists, faith leaders and tribal members gathered to “Confront the Warmakers”–a historic nod to the 1967 protests against the Vietnam War at the Pentagon.
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Century of trauma fuels Lakota push to revoke Wounded Knee medals
September 27, 2024
At a recent hearing in South Dakota, speakers carried on a century-old pressure campaign to rescind the honors that stem from one of the worst massacres in the country’s Indian Wars.
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New Mural Brings Light to the Hoh Tribe
September 23, 2024
The New Old Time Chautauqua traveled 130 miles west from Port Townsend for six days in June during the Hoh Days celebration where the mural project first took shape.
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Community members want deputy who killed Mescalero Apache teenager charged
September 13, 2024
The fatal shooting sparked protests in nearby Alamogordo and demands for the deputy to be criminally charged. Some have also called on the local sheriff to resign through an online petition that had just over 1,000 signatures as of publication.
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Muscogee Nation pushes back against standard Oklahoma tribal boundary signs
September 06, 2024
The Oklahoma Department of Transportation (ODOT) is standardizing tribal boundary signs across the state, but not all Indigenous nations welcome this one-size-fits-all approach.
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Geriatrics workforce grant to focus on Maine’s rural and tribal communities
August 04, 2024
The nearly $5 million in federal funds will support tribal health centers and a program that connects medical students with rural communities.
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J.D. Vance’s ‘fake holiday’ and ‘two-spirit’ comments raise concerns
July 18, 2024
Native leaders speak out about the GOP vice presidential nominee’s perspectives on Indigenous issues.
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On the Chopping Block
July 10, 2024
The Bureau of Land Management plans to raze 380,000 acres of pinyon-juniper forests vital to Nevada tribes.
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