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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.

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Studies show that Native children have the highest rate of dog bite injuries in the nation, and the highest rate of dog bite hospitalizations occur in rural Alaska and the Navajo Nation.

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ZUNI, NM — Intergenerational connection and knowledge sharing are deeply rooted in Zuni culture. Understanding that these things also are essential to the healthy development of Zuni youth, the Zuni Youth Enrichment Project is constantly searching for new ways to engage families, bring generations together and provide learning and fun in equal measure. 
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Native Vote. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (Ojibwe), a Democrat, officially announced her candidacy for the open U.S. Senate seat in Minnesota on Thursday with the launch of the Peggy Flanagan for U.S. Senate website.

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 Last week, lawmakers reintroduced a bill to improve recruitment and retention of a Native American tactical patrol unit called Shadow Wolves.
 
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U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), Vice Chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee, led a group of 13 Democratic colleagues in urging the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to honor the United States’ trust and treaty obligations to Tribal nations and their citizens by ending the unjustified searches and interrogations of Tribal members.

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TURTLE MOUNTAIN INDIAN RESERVATION – More than 500 people gathered at the Sky Dancer Event Center on Wednesday afternoon to welcome Leonard Peltier (Turtle Mountain Ojibwe), a member of the American Indian Movement (AIM), back to his homeland after 49 years of incarceration. Peltier was released from a federal maximum-security prison on Tuesday morning and flown to northern North Dakota where he will be confined to a house on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation. 

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OKMULGEE, Okla. —The following is a non-exhaustive list of federal grants and programs applicable for Federally Recognized Tribes, State Recognized Tribes, American Indian communities, and Tribal Colleges. On Jan 27, the White House Office of Budget Management issued a memo freezing all federal grants and programs. On Jan 28, Principal Chief David Hill issued Executive Order 25-11 putting into place spending caps for the MCN government offices. While the White House memo was rescinded on Jan. 29, the programs and grants are up for review, according to White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt. As of press time, Chief Hill has not made a further statement or cancelled his EO on the MCN spending freeze. 

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TURTLE MOUNTAIN INDIAN RESERVATION — Braving sub-zero temperatures on a late sunny afternoon, family, friends, and fellow tribal citizens lined both sides of Highway 281 at the reservation entrance to welcome home Leonard Peltier on Tuesday.

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