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LATEST NEWS FROM THE NETWORK
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Interior Secretary nominee questioned about stance on Native issues
January 17, 2025
Former North Dakota Gov. Doug Burgum faced a Senate committee Thursday that questioned related to his nomination as Secretary of the Interior including on issues affecting tribes.
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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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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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100 years of citizenship – tribal advocates press citizens to vote
July 04, 2024
Oklahoma tribes have also made efforts in the past four years to increase Native voter registration.
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50 years later, Lakota girl still missing
February 26, 2024
Family remembers 12-year-old Delema Sits Poor on 50th anniversary of her disappearance from the Pine Ridge reservation in South Dakota.
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A Native voting ecosystem in Nevada
February 21, 2024
Grassroots organizations, the state Indian commission, county governments and tribal nations work collectively to increase Native American voter engagement.
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Tribes face uphill battle to defend sacred land against lithium mining
February 10, 2024
An analysis by the Howard Center for Investigative Journalism at Arizona State University found nine proposed lithium mines are within 10 miles of Native American reservations.
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Lithium mining’s untold threat to water
February 02, 2024
The coming electric battery revolution in America will require billions upon billions of gallons of water to mine lithium – and many of the new U.S. mines will be located in the drought-prone American West, an investigative report has found.
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City closes shelter for Natives amid arctic freeze
January 13, 2024
As temperatures dipped below zero Friday, January 12, Rapid City officials decided to close a makeshift warming shelter that was to serve Indigenous homeless people.
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How the recovery of a stolen plant helped one nation re-Indigenize tobacco
January 02, 2024
Tribes in Oregon are once again growing and using Columbian tobacco, a variety native to the Pacific Northwest that was all but wiped out by displacement from white settlers.
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Where the 2024 presidential candidates stand on Indigenous issues
November 07, 2023
Most of the presidential candidates don’t publicly mention what their policies are on Indigenous issues, leaving voters to speculate what it could be from past legislations, social media posts, comments and speeches. ICT has created a database of presidential candidates that includes information specific to tribal nations.
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Joe Biden nominates Cherokee citizen to federal bench
October 18, 2023
Former Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara Hill is the president’s fourth Native American judicial nominee.
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An Indigenous room in hip-hop’s mansion
September 30, 2023
As the world celebrates 50 years of rap music and its unstoppable culture, incredible Indigenous hip-hop artists reflect on humble beginnings and the path ahead.
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