(Photo courtesy) By James Giago Davies, Native Sun News Today Correspondent MINNEAPOLIS, MN—Oil has been flowing across Minnesota through the newly built Line 3 replacement pipeline for over a month now. Tribal and environmental groups have been teamed up to protest the pipeline construction for several years, but their efforts
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Endangered Lakota and other indigenous languages find homes on the world’s most translated Website (Submitted by Roxanne Two Bulls) “Lakota is such a beautiful language,” said Roxanne Two Bulls who volunteered to translate materials into Lakota for jw.org, the official website of Jehovah’s Witnesses that offers content in more than
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PRE-CONFERENCE FUNDING SESSION 43RD ANNUAL LAKOTA NATIONS EDUCATION CONFERENCE RAMKOTA INN – RAPID CITY, SOUTH DAKOTA WASHINGTON ROOM DECEMBER 14, 2021 @ 9:00 AM-4:00 PM Purpose: To offer specific information to better serve the educational needs of all students. 9:00 AM Overview & Introductions
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The sad legacy of boarding schools By Cecily Hilleary “VOA CORRESPONDENT” Native American girls saying bedtime prayers at the Phoenix Indian School in Arizona, June 1900. WASHINGTON — Ask most Native Americans about Indian boarding schools, and they will tell you that from 1879 through the late 1970s, the federal
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This week, the White House hosted the first Summit of Tribal Nations since 2016. Tribal leaders convened virtually with leaders from the Biden-Harris Administration, including Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden, United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary
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The House of Representatives passed the Build Back Better bill, H.R. 5376 (as amended) by a vote of 220-213. This bill is the Budget Reconciliation measure to carry out portions of the President’s domestic agenda for social programs including child care, early education, and access to health care. A summary
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Secretarial Orders declare “squaw” a derogatory term, create Reconciliation in Place Names advisory committee to identify and replace additional derogatory names WASHINGTON — Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland today formally established a process to review and replace derogatory names of the nation’s geographic features. She also declared “squaw” to be
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Debra Utacia Krol, Arizona Republic As Americans sit down to a table full of food this Thanksgiving Day, many may retell a story they learned in elementary school, about the Pilgrims who befriended the local Indians after the Mayflower dropped its anchor in Cape Cod Bay in 1620. It’s that
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Marty Waukazoo, Rosebud Sioux Native American Health Center CEO. (Photo by James Giago Davies) By James Giago Davies, Native Sun News Today Correspondent OAKLAND, CA — Every cityscape strikes a stranger as soulless, but for those who call a given city home, there are distinct districts and neighborhoods, places where
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Montana State University celebrates the opening of the American Indian Hall Saturday, October 16, 2021 in Bozeman. MSU Courtesy photo by Kelly Gorham By Clara Caufield, Native Sun News Today Editor BOZEMAN, Mont. – A tribal celebration attended by about 1,000 was held on the campus of Montana State
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