DC—Department of Interior (DOI) Secretary Deb Haaland announced a new strategy on March 3, 2023, to restore bison populations. She issued Secretarial Order 3410 which created a comprehensive restoration and resilience framework, incorporating Native tribes’ expertise to revive the historically significant species. The strategy includes an unprecedented $25 million in
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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 30, 2023
“Welcome Back the Thunders” ceremony acknowledges the rains that nurture the growth of life. We started our journey at the bottom of Black Elk Peak. Several members of the Oglala Sioux Tribe had a table set up for signing. We make this journey every year up the hill to the
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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 23, 2023
The Federal Government is providing a lot of new money for Veteran benefits under the PACT Act, developed by MT Senator Jon Tester, Chairman of the Veterans Affairs Committee, signed into law in 2022. This information is highlighted by NSNT for a simple reason. While Native Americans have the highest
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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 23, 2023
Frederick Liu, Assistant to the US Soliciter General argued before the Supreme Court that the federal government has no duty to do anything to ensure the Navajo Nation’s Treaty and Reserved rights to water. BROWNING, MT—The Biden-Harris Campaign promised tribal nations that, among other things, their Administration would “Ensure fulfillment
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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 23, 2023
Northern Cheyenne Heritage Living Center in Ashland, Mont. has been temporarily closed. (Photo courtesy of Heritege Living Center website ASHLAND, MT—Due to an unexpected accident which caused structural damage, about twenty Northern Cheyenne elders, residents of the Heritage Living Center, Ashland, MT will find themselves living in motel rooms in
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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 16, 2023
PINE RIDGE – Last week, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced $25 million in federal spending for buffalo conservation, which will include the transfer of more herds from federal to tribal lands. The announcement follows a multi-year trend of reintroducing the iconic animal to Native American homelands, which has mainly happened
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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 16, 2023
Indian Health Service Announces New Deputy Director for Intergovernmental Affairs WASHINGTON, DC—The Indian Health Service is announcing the appointment of Stacey Ecoffey, an enrolled member of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, as the new deputy director for intergovernmental affairs at IHS headquarters. In this position, Ecoffey is responsible for providing leadership
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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 10, 2023
“Survey data suggest a college degree is increasingly tied to identification with the Democratic Party. Forty-one percent of Democratic voters in 2019 had at least a college degree, up from just 22% in 1996, Pew Research Center surveys show. By comparison, 30% of GOP voters in 2019 had a degree,
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Bison male on green grass (Animals) bison,buffalo,animal,nature,strong WASHINGTON – The Department of the Interior announced several new steps to restore wild and healthy populations of American bison and the prairie grassland ecosystem. Through a new Secretary’s Order and over $25 million from the Inflation Reduction Act, the Department will empower its
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Shared by Native Sun News Today March 10, 2023
SIOUX FALLS—For most of his long and productive life James Abourezk was an anomaly; an educated, erudite, progressive minded man from a rural state where men so described generally have no political future. While white South Dakotans knew Abourezk was a Democrat, few realized he was Arab American, of Lebanese
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