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Republicans left tribes out of their $50B Rural Fund. Now it’s up to states to share

Tribes aren't allowed to apply for a share of the Rural Health Transformation Program, which is the largest-ever U.S. investment in rural health care, and must rely on states to share funds with them ...
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Native American kids less likely than others in Washington state to be offered second chance in juvenile court, data shows

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Gabe Galanda, an Indigenous rights lawyer and citizen of the Round Valley Tribe, says systemic ...
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Makah Tribe’s treaty-protected whaling rights remain blocked more than two decades later

SEATTLE — Despite the Makah Tribe’s success in getting a waiver to carry out their exclusive treaty right for whaling, the permitting process that had dragged on for over 20 years has now been ...
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Tribal radio funding flows, but future remains uncertain after clawback of public media money

PORCUPINE — For the past few weeks, Oitancan “Oi” Zephier has labored among piles of vinyl records nearly 2 feet high. KILI-FM, the Porcupine, South Dakota-based tribal public broadcasting station ...
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‘I’ll be back’: Former Arizona State University wide receiver Xavier Guillory vows to return from injury

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Former Arizona State wide receiver Xavier Guillory watches the Northern Arizona-Arizona State game ...
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Wounded Knee legacy lives on 50 years later

WOUNDED KNEE, South Dakota — Madonna Thunder Hawk remembers the firefights. As a medic during the occupation of Wounded Knee in early 1973, Thunder Hawk was stationed each night in a frontline bunker ...
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Native people killed by police 3-5 times more than others

Lee Enterprises’ Public Service Journalism team has spent more than a year digging into the causes and implications of Native Americans’ disproportionately high rates of fatal encounters with law ...
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‘Sending them home to die’

Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X George Little Wound was gravely ill when he was sent home to Pine Ridge from the Carlisle Indian ...
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This time it’s different? The rush to mine Indigenous lands

WASHINGTON – This won’t be an easy conversation: Can tribal nations love mining? Or at least accept mining as a necessary step in the creation of a clean economy? And can governments and international ...
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New NAGPRA rules: A sea change in federal regulations

This is the first installment in a three-part ICT series examining new rules under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. Changes to the Native American Graves Protection and ...
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Canada, US differ on boarding schools

Comparing the histories of Indian residential schools in Canada with Indian boarding schools in the U.S. is almost like comparing apples with oranges. A true comparison is nearly impossible since so ...