Bill introduced to reauthorize Native housing funding Bill would expand housing resources for Native veterans, students WASHINGTON—U.S. Senator Mike Rounds (R-S.D.) recently introduced legislation with Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawai’i) and 6 other members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, to reform and reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance
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NCUIH Vice President to Testify at Senate Committee on Indian Affairs on UIO Facilities Bill On July 14, Robyn Sunday-Allen, member of the Cherokee Nation, National Council of Urban Indian Health (NCUIH) Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the Oklahoma City Indian Clinic, will testify before the Senate
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US Mint honors national influence of Chief Mankiller By Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., Cherokee Nation The late Principal Chief Wilma Mankiller, the first woman elected to serve as chief of the Cherokee Nation, is widely remembered for her courage and resolve. Those hallmarks are why the U.S.
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Native American Agriculture Fund invests $1 million in Native youth for 2021 The Native American Agriculture Fund (NAAF) has awarded $1 million dollars to 20 grantees serving Native youth across 115 Tribal Nations. The diverse range of grants for youth programming provides direct capital to projects impacting more than
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2021 was a tree planting success 35,000 tree starts were planted and donated This May, Red Cloud Renewable received about 35,000 baby trees grown by the Colorado State Forest Service and paid for by Trees, Water, and People and Nomadic Tipi Makers. There were thousands of Ponderosa Pine seedlings, as well
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Little Big Horn Re-enactment—Crow Style (Photo Courtesy of Real Bird’s Little Bighorn & Custer Reenactment. FB page) “War is never good; we go to war for peace.” By Clara Caufield, NSNT Correspondent GARRYOWEN, MT—The grandstands at the June 25th anniversary re-enactment of the Battle of the Little Big Horn
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Lakota Food Summit happening in August RAPID CITY—The Lakota Food Sovereignty Coalition will be hosting their Second Annual Lakota Food Summit coming up on August 24, 25 & 26th, 2021. This will be taking place at the Holiday Inn-Rushmore Plaza Civic Center in Rapid City. The summit’s opening
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Models wear clothing designed by Oglala Lakota designer Tosa Two Heart at the Native POP 2021 Designer Fashion Show. Photo courtesy of Tosa Two Heart Facebook page @shoptwoheart. Indigenous culture celebrated at event in Rapid City By Native Sun News Today Staff RAPID CITY―Last week, crowds gathered in downtown
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WANBLI—Last Friday at Crazy Horse School in Wanbli, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Council opened their regularly scheduled meeting by honoring seven tribal members for contributions to the tribe. Jade Ecoffey was the first honoree. Going into her junior year at Red Cloud, Ecoffey has been a fixture in South Dakota
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PARK RAPIDS, Minn. — As Native oil pipeline foes stepped up pressure for U.S. President Joe Biden to cancel Enbridge Energy Inc.’s Line 3 construction here, backers of another pipeline project announced July 2, that they are suing him for cancelling theirs. You guessed it: TC Energy Corp. is filing
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