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In the battle between state and federal government over who has surface mining jurisdiction on the Muscogee (Creek) Reservation in Oklahoma, a federal judge favored the feds last week when he shot down the state’s injunction.
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[This story was originally published by the Anchorage Daily News on December 16, 2021. Read the original story at the Anchorage Daily News. Republished by Native News Online with permission. This story is fourth in a series. This story is part of a reporting collaboration between Alaska Public Media, the Anchorage Daily News and Indian Country Today on the 50th anniversary of the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Funding for the project was provided by the Alaska Center for Excellence in Journalism.]
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Alaska is a unique place — record breaking temperatures below zero, summer nights where the sun doesn’t set, grizzly bears on your morning walk. With this comes unique laws and public policies. It can be confusing to keep track of the various Native organizations and layers of tribal enrollment options within Alaska, so we put together a list of definitions that explain some of the basics.
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Earlier this month, a federal committee determined that at least 5,892 human remains held in The University of Alabama’s museums collection are culturally linked to seven present day Muskogean-speaking tribes located throughout Alabama, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Florida.
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The Squaxin Island Tribe of western Washington state, along the southernmost inlets of the Salish Sea, have received lands back from private owners, a forestry company called Port Blakely Companies.
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The Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe received on Wednesday an early Christmas gift from the U.S. Department of the Interior on Wednesday when it received notification from Assistant Secretary of the Interior – Indian Affairs Bryan Newland that the tribe’s reservation has been confirmed.
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The City and Borough of Wrangell in Southeast Alaska may soon reckon with its Indian boarding school history.
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NEW YORK — New York is among the four states that don’t protect all their dead from unintentional excavation—specifically those buried on private lands.
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This story was originally published by KNBA on December 15, 2021. Read the original story at KNBA. Republished by Native News Online with permission.
At this year’s Alaska Federation of Natives convention, sponsors of a ballot initiative took the opportunity to say their piece on why Tribal recognition in the state is long overdue.
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This story was originally published by KNBA on December 13, 2021. Read the original story at KNBA. Republished by Native News Online with permission.
Sponsors of a Tribal recognition initiative will speak Tuesday at the Alaska Federation of Natives annual convention.
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- By Lyndsey Brollini - KTOO