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04/08/2024

Olympic champion Billy Mills (Oglala Lakota), presented with an Eagle Feather at Lake Andes school.
The only American to ever win Olympic gold in the 10,000 meters.
Billy Mills remains the USA's one and only gold medallist in the men's 10,000m, a feat he achieved at Tokyo 1964.
Run like the wind.

03/08/2024

AKWESASNE, NY – The Saint Regis Mohawk Tribe (SRMT) welcomed Indian Health Service (IHS) Director Roselyn Tso for her inaugural visit to Akwesasne alongside returning dignitary Dr. Beverly Cott...

02/08/2024

https://www.fcnl.org/updates/2024-07/july-2024-native-american-legislative-update

In a bipartisan vote on June 13, the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policies Act (H.R. 7227) passed the House Education and Workforce Committee 34 to 4. This is a major win for Native American communities, survivors, and their descendants, who were terrorized by these policie...

02/08/2024

Reception from 4-7 p.m. at Mountain Trails Gallery in Tlaquepaque

02/08/2024

https://youtu.be/aosiI426USk?si=-PDpJnv7HJZHqDlO

02/08/2024

Tom Perez, director of the Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and a senior advisor to President Joe Biden, characterized broadband internet access as “an essential public good that needs to be affordable and accessible to everyone.” Perez commented favorably on the Osage Nation’s high level of readiness to carry out the broadband projects.

Federal officials visit Osage County for ceremony.

02/08/2024

The lawsuit also seeks payment by the Interior Department to the Osage Nation of about $4.87 million connected to the programs over which the Nation desires to establish control. The suit accuses the Interior Department of committing violations of the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act.

The Osage National lawsuit asks the District Court to hand over management of the programs and funds administered by the Interior Department.

02/08/2024

“We bought our reservation, 1, 470, 000 acres, with our own money. That’s our land. The federal government comes in, says ... you’re going to lose all your property.”

As a sovereign tribal nation, the Osage can enact and enforce laws that regulate their business, but the Bureau of Indian Affairs insists they are authorized to handle the issue...

Now the Osage Nation has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Interior in the District of Columbia to get a legal decision on the matter. Standing Bear said he and the Osage people are “very upset” with the Department of Interior.

“When does this movie end? It’s a nightmare, is what it is,” he said. “I just hope this new administration will join us and make permanent changes, so we really are going to be self-sufficient.”

Native Vote 2024. MILWAUKEE, Wis. — On day three of the Republican National Convention , Senator Markwayne Mullin, a Republican from Oklahoma and an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation, facilitated a panel between lawmakers and tribal representatives to discuss priorities.

02/08/2024

https://www.route-fifty.com/management/2024/07/long-sought-change-states-must-consider-tribal-rights-when-crafting-water-rules/398462/

A revision to the federal Clean Water Act could help protect resources tribal communities depend on like wild rice, sturgeon, salmon and shellfish.

02/08/2024

https://alaskabeacon.com/2024/07/30/native-american-public-health-officials-are-stuck-in-data-blind-spot/

Tribal health officials have said data denials impeded their responses to outbreaks, including slowing contact tracing in the pandemic.

02/08/2024

https://www.knau.org/knau-and-arizona-news/2024-07-31/investigation-finds-at-least-973-native-american-children-died-in-us-government-boarding-schools

The investigation found marked and unmarked graves at 65 of the more than 400 U.S. boarding schools where Native American children were forcibly assimilated into white society.

30/07/2024

29/07/2024

1) Pentagon to review whether soldiers deserved honors for actions in Wounded Knee Massacre
2) Native Americans speak out against Trump pick for VP
3) Native Americans: Deb Haaland would be a good pick for Harris running mate
4) Southwestern tribal leaders to Congress: Act now on water rights bills
5) Oklahoma tribes outraged by Atlanta Braves ‘tribe night’ celebrations

A look back at Native American related headlines this week

29/07/2024

The Sand Creek Massacre took the lives of approximately 230 Native Americans, mostly women, children and older members of the Arapaho and Cheyenne tribes on the morning of Nov. 29, 1864. The tribes camped in the Sand Creek drainage as instructed by the American military as peace negotiations took place at Fort Lyon.

Acting without orders, Colonel John Chivington led soldiers to the area and opened fire on the natives' encampment. They continued shooting for eight hours. But the "barbarism" enacted on the bodies of the deceased, as described by the National Park Service's website, continued into the next day.

The City of Boulder, after consulting with Arapaho and Cheyenne Tribal Representatives for two years, announced concept plans to redevelop a 120-acre farm site from which more than 100 Boulder-area men mobilized and took part in the Sand Creek Massacre 160 years ago.

29/07/2024

https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/historic-five-tribe-agreement-strengthens-sovereignty-and-conservation-efforts-in-oklahoma

Guest Opinion. When Cherokees were removed from our ancestral homelands, we carried with us a deep respect for natural resources and wildlife, both in our former lands and our new homes. From the Trail of Tears beans and other precious seeds that were sewn into Cherokee clothes for that arduous trek...

29/07/2024

https://youtu.be/HbDcYZ3adTQ?si=zmcQzfyJ4DDfzms8

The number of Indigenous people in the United States is estimated at between four and seven million people, and only 20% of the Native Americans live on rese...

29/07/2024

29/07/2024

https://nativenewsonline.net/opinion/arguably-president-joe-biden-has-been-the-best-president-for-indian-country

Opinion. My late mother who passed away last summer loved it when President Joe Biden would mention tribal nations whenever he referred to state and local governments in his speeches.

29/07/2024

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/native-news-weekly-july-28-2024-d-c-briefs

WASHINGTON — In addition to articles already covered by Native News Online, here is a roundup of other news released from Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country recently.

12/06/2024

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This week, Code Talker Teddy Draper Sr., the last survivor of the raising of the American flag on Mount Suribachi, will be laid to rest at the age of 96.

May we continue to the , , and for which many gave their lives to protect and promote around the world.

12/06/2024

https://www.upmatters.com/news/national/who-is-leonard-peltier-the-native-american-activist-who-faces-his-first-parole-hearing-in-15-years/

Advocates for his parole or release have included Pope Francis, Amnesty International, and the late Mother Teresa and Coretta Scott King, as well as several current US senators.

10/06/2024

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-13473145/native-american-child-s*x-abuse-scandal.html

For over 100 years, Native American children were subjected to ruthless s*xual abuse at the hands of priests and teachers after being forced to live in culture-destroying boarding schools.

10/06/2024

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/leonard-peltier-native-activist-imprisoned-nearly-50-years-faces-may-l-rcna155618

Peltier last had a full parole hearing 15 years ago, when federal officials argued his release after the killing of two FBI agents in 1975 would promote “disrespect for the law.”

10/06/2024

The Braves hosted their third annual Native American All-Star Baseball Showcase, and on Saturday, 50 top high school baseball players of Native American descent went through a pro-style workout on the field at Truist Park.

ATLANTA -- Fifty high school baseball players participated in a once-in-a-lifetime experience this weekend at Truist Park. The Braves hosted their third annual Native American All-Star Baseball Showcase, and on Saturday, 50 top high school baseball players of Native American descent went through a p...

09/06/2024

Day walkers with diseases! History teaches us that the Europeans/White America called Indigenous people "savages". I can only imagine what the Indigenous people thought of these newly arrived individuals!

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