March 30, 2023
Dartmouth College has unknowingly been using the bones belonging to Native American ancestors to teach with as recently as fall 2022, the college announced this week.
Currents
WASHINGTON — Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) was on Capitol Hill Tuesday to defend the Biden administration’s $18.9 billion 2024 budget request for the agency that manages most federal lands, natural resources and programs for Native Americans.
Opinion
Opinion. America’s culture war hit close to home this week.
Guest Opinion. Everyone deserves to know where their next meal is coming from. Unfortunately, millions of Americans still face food insecurity, which means they can’t always get enough nutritious food for their household. This can be an especially hard challenge for our elders and families with young children.
Sovereignty
Dartmouth College has unknowingly been using the bones belonging to Native American ancestors to teach with as recently as fall 2022, the college announced this week.
Roberta Duckhead Kittson Nyomo said she and her brother were among the last Native American children adopted out of Thompson Falls before the federal Indian Child Welfare Act was passed in 1978. The siblings were sent to live with a non-Native family. Nyomo remembers them lacking empathy.
Education
UPDATED (3/31/2023) A North Carolina Native American family is fighting against a state-funded charter school’s demand that their first-grade boy gets his hair cut. The school system recently changed its dress and grooming code to define a boy wearing his hair in a bun or braids as “faddish.”
A Denver charter school focused on Indigenized curriculum will be closing its doors at the end of a school year due to low enrollment.
Arts & Entertainment
LOS ANGELES — Amazon Studios and Native-led racial social justice organization IllumiNative announced yesterday they are partnering to launch the first IllumiNative Episodic Directors Program.
Initial response to a new Indigenous fashion show and music festival in Rapid City, S.D. has given its organizers a bit of a jolt.
Health
Environment
WASHINGTON — Members of the Senate and the House of Representatives have created a Congressional Colorado River Caucus to address relentless drought conditions across the Colorado River Basin that is leaving states and tribes short of water.
RENO, Nev.— Construction is underway on the highly contested Thacker Pass lithium mine in northern Nevada after a court ruled earlier this month against the tribes trying to stop the mine.
