BEMIDJI, Minn. – Later this month there will be a meeting of peoples from the Dakota, Nakota, Lakota, and Ojibwe in Bemidji, Minnesota. The event is a Reunification for Healing, and it will feature a presentation and prayer from both Dave Courchene, Objiwe, and Arvol Looking Horse, Lakota and keeper
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WASHINGTON – The National Council of Urban Indian Health has requested that Congress honor the United States trust responsibility to urban Indians by passing emergency funding that includes Urban Indian Organizations for the prevention and treatment of the Coronavirus -Covid 19 risk. NCUIH requested: • At the very least $94
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“This partnership is historic and represents the first time that both our reservation and urban based Native community tribes and organizations will be resourced to do this critically important work.” — JANEEN COMENOTE (QUINAULT), NUIFC EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR WASHINGTON – The National Congress of American Indians (NCAI), National Urban Indian
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In contrast to a Meade County permit meeting in South Dakota, one at Holt County in Nebraska was packed. (Photo courtesy Shannon Graves) STURGIS –The Rosebud Sioux Tribe and the Ft. Belknap Indian Community held off the Keystone XL Pipeline in federal court on Feb. 25, as agents for the
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Tribal leaders walk along fence that is being replaced with a wall across their homelands. (Photo courtesy Tohono O’odham Nation) SELLS, Ariz. – Tohono O’odham Nation Chair Ned Norris Jr. testified before the House Natural Resources Committee’s Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples of the United States on Feb. 26 about destruction
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Part Two of a series SHERIDAN, Wyo. – During Eric True Blood’s second enlistment, while going through basic Army training at Fort Carson, CO, he trained for infantry, though he most likely could have taught that course. Then, he completed Airborne School, gaining his jump wings. After that, he was
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Ruth Cedar Face (left) and Chissie Spencer (right) at a press conference at the Pennington County State’s Attorney’s office. (Photo by Travis Dewes) RAPID CITY – As the old saying goes, oftentimes an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure. Chissie Spencer and Ruth Cedar Face, traditional drug,
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(Photo courtesy of Grand Forks Herald) PINE RIDGE— On March 10, voters on the Pine Ridge Reservation will have the chance to support or oppose a referendum to allow alcohol sales limited to casino operations on the reservation. Pine Ridge is presently a “dry” reservation, and past efforts to legalize
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Pictured demonstrating at the South Dakota State Capitol on Feb. 18 are pipeline resisters from Cheyenne River, Lower Brule and other Sioux tribes. (Photo courtesy Indigenous Rising Media) PINE RIDGE – the Oglala Sioux Tribe Finance Committee delayed action until Feb. 27 on a $50,000 “propane donation” check from the
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Wet’suwet’en hereditary chiefs from left, Rob Alfred, John Ridsdale and Antoinette Austin, who oppose the Coastal GasLink pipeline, take part in a rally in Smithers, B.C., on Jan. 10. (Jason Franson/The Canadian Press) EAGLE BUTTE – Across the line known as the US/Canadian border our Wetsuweten relatives have been engaging
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