SIOUX FALLS— The Native American Day Parade has been a celebration and recognition of the Oceti Sakowin and all Indigenous people in South Dakota since 2018. Last year, the parade was canceled as COVID-19 cases rose in South Dakota. This year, despite the availability of a COVID vaccine, another surge
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Grants to support innovative housing programs in 33 communities WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is awarding $142 million to build systems to end youth homelessness in 33 local communities, including $2,794,581 for the Statewide Continuum of Care in South Dakota. HUD’s Youth Homelessness Demonstration
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Activists gather at the ‘Red Road to DC’ stop in Minnesota last week (Photo by Wingspan Media and courtesy of Pyramid Communications) Tribal leaders and Native activists warn that pipeline threatens sacred waters, violates treaty PARK RAPIDS, MN—Tribal members from the Red Lake Band of Chippewa and Native organizers called
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WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior today announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has given final approval to the Southern Bighorn Solar Project on Tribal lands in Nevada. The Department also announced that construction for the Arrow Canyon Solar Project has begun. Together, these two key developments
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Contact: press@ccrjustice.org Local District Attorney Rejects All Criminal Charges for Alleged Violations of ALEC-inspired Anti-Protest Amendments to Critical Infrastructure Law St. Martinville, Louisiana – Sixteen pipeline protesters and a journalist who had been arrested and charged with felonies in 2018 celebrated a major victory for the First Amendment after
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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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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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The Hall of Tribal Nations at BIA headquarters honors the federally recognized American Indian and Alaska Native tribes of the United States with a display of each one’s flag. The new American Rescue Plan Act relief for indigenous community services is earmarked for these 574 tribal governments, not corporations. (COURTESY
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Michele Naar-Obed outside Aitkin County Jail March 19: She was held in custody three nights for what turned out to be a junk warrant. COURTESY / Resist Line 3 AITKIN COUNTY, Minn. — Spring is bringing the heat to opponents of the Enbridge Line 3 tar-sands oil pipeline, as levels
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Oak Flat: For more than six years, tribal members and allies have been holding camps, rallies, relay runs and other demonstrations to resist the mining on sacred treaty land. (Photo by Talli Nauman) OAK FLAT, Arizona — To make good on Joe Biden’s recent Presidential Memorandum for tribal consultation and
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