PORCUPINE – Thunder Valley Community—Oglala Lakota Nation (Oceti Sakowin Territory) is one of ten winners of the 2020-2021 RWJF Culture of Health Prize awarded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Prize honors and elevates communities for working at the forefront of advancing health, opportunity, and equity. Thunder Valley is
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WASHINGTON — The National Wildlife Federation applauds the introduction of the bipartisan Indian Buffalo Management Act by Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mike Rounds (R-S.D.). The bill will establish a permanent program within the Department of the Interior to develop and promote Tribal ownership and management of buffalo and their habitat
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PIERRE – Most Pierre-area residents are familiar with South Dakota Urban Indian Health’s (SDUIH) Abbey Road clinic location. SDUIH has been located at 1714 Abbey Road for almost 20 years, first opening its doors at that location in 2005. Now, after 44 years of caring for Urban Natives in
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BROWNING, Mont. – On Friday, October 22, 2021, the high school gymnasium at Browning, Montana was filled to capacity as national, state, tribal leaders, Indians from many other Tribes and the Blackfeet Nation joined together to observe the passing of a legendary Montana tribal leader, Earl Old Person. The service
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Nez Perce Tribe, Lapwai Idaho. (Courtesy Photo) LAPWAI, Idaho – The Nez Perce Tribe (Tribe) closed on the purchase of 358 acres of land adjacent to the Clearwater River Casino & Lodge. The property consists of agricultural, range and some development land and sits to the north and east of
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WASHINGTON – The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the nation’s largest Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization, today expresses support for the group IllumiNative – which seeks to boost the visibility of Native Americans in the media – and its calls for the firing of Fox News hosts who made
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MESA, AZ – United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) will hold its Midyear Leadership Conference, February 24-27, 2022, at the Hilton Phoenix Resort at the Peak. The National Conference will be July 8-12, 2022 in Minneapolis. Early bird registration for each conference is $250 through November 30, 2021. As
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WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced key members of agency leadership who will work to advance President Biden’s agenda to tackle climate change, protect endangered wildlife, and honor relationships and trust responsibilities with Indigenous communities. “The Interior Department is hard at work turning President Biden’s Build Back
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PIERRE – Beginning Oct. 24, mandatory 10-digit dialing will start to take effect across South Dakota. On and after this date, you must dial the area code + telephone number for all local calls. Local calls dialed with only seven digits may not be completed. Instead, a recording may
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OTTAWA, CANADA – The Native Women’s Association of Canada (NWAC) and Sephora Canada will host the first national Zoom roundtable on Indigenous beauty on Tuesday, October 19 from 2 pm to 4 pm ET. The roundtable, which will be facilitated by Waneek Horn-Miller, the first Mohawk woman from Canada to
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