Northern Cheyenne Heritage Living Center in Ashland, Mont. has been temporarily closed. (Photo courtesy of Heritege Living Center website ASHLAND, MT—Due to an unexpected accident which caused structural damage, about twenty Northern Cheyenne elders, residents of the Heritage Living Center, Ashland, MT will find themselves living in motel rooms in
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PINE RIDGE – Last week, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced $25 million in federal spending for buffalo conservation, which will include the transfer of more herds from federal to tribal lands. The announcement follows a multi-year trend of reintroducing the iconic animal to Native American homelands, which has mainly happened
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Public bathrooms in the United States: love them or hate them, you can’t ignore them. From dingy gas station restrooms to overcrowded airport lavatories, public bathrooms in the US have a reputation for being, well, pretty terrible. A recent poll of 3,000 by Lavatory Lab confirmed this hypothesis when they
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CRAZY HORSE – In 1978, the Crazy Horse Memorial scholarship program began with a single college scholarship of $250 awarded to a college student studying in South Dakota. Korczak Ziolkowski called it a “modest effort now toward the future, long-range educational goals of Crazy Horse” – and in the last
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“We look to the creative genius of artists to not only help us see the world from a different perspective, but to also help us imagine the way forward in an ever-changing landscape” (Ernie: place this quote in a quote box, or maybe a line above and below in
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PINE RIDGE—Back in 2015, the Obama Administration designated the entire Pine Ridge Reservation as a Promise Zone. The intent was to target high poverty areas with a partnership between the federal government and local leaders and groups “to improve economic and community conditions.” In 2017, Congress created Opportunity Zones, some
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KYLE –In 2022, construction costs hit a 50-year high with a 17.5% year-over-year increase. With rising inflation, labor shortages, and supply chain issues continuing to disrupt markets, the forecast for 2023 isn’t much better. The impact of these trends is intensified in Native American communities where housing shortages regularly force
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How much do public servants get paid? Most NSNT readers know how much their respective elected tribal officials are paid for their service. As a Northern Cheyenne tribal member commented, “Most tribal council members go from broke to flush when elected. Suddenly many are driving new vehicles.” In Montana, the
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Jason Small Many tribal people in Montana don’t pay much attention to what the Montana Legislature does. I suggest that we do, because many programs helpful to tribal members on reservations flow through MT State government things such as SNAP (food stamps) and commodities; Low Income Energy Assistance; Medicare Expansion
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Many are the ruses employed over history to marginalize tribes and eliminate the treaties the states in which they reside signed with them. The state of Maine is presently the most prominent example of this historical pattern. Starting in 1807 Maine attempted to separate from the state of Massachusetts, citing
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