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Austin Corbett is heading to the NFL’s biggest game playing with the Los Angeles Rams as they face the Cincinnati Bengals in Super Bowl LVI on Sunday, February 13. The 26-year-old is in his third season, currently second with the Rams, and plays a vital role for one of the NFL’s top offenses—he’s the starting right guard. He’s also a member of the Walker River Paiute Tribe in Nevada. And this is his first appearance in the Super Bowl.
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In a special election held due to the resignation of Sault Ste. Marie of Chippewa Indians Chairperson Aaron Payment as recording secretary last month, the National Congress of Ameican Indians (NCAI) Executive Committee elected Stephen Roe Lewis, governor of the Gila River Indian Community, to fill the position on Wednesday.
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Actress, elder, and internationally recognized Indigenous Environmental Ambassador, Casey Camp-Horinek, will appear at George R.R. Martin’s Jean Cocteau Cinema in Santa Fe, New Mexico on February 4, 2022.
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On Wednesday, Washington’s National Football League (NFL) Team announced its new team name as the Commanders. The announcement was made exclusively on the Today Show, after weeks of speculation. The announcement was met with varying responses from leaders across Indian Country.
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On Monday, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland led the White House Council on Native American Affairs’ engagement session with tribal leaders on how they want to use the $13 billion tribal set-aside in President Biden’s Infrastructure Bill.
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The Department of the Interior announced this week it hired a full-time investigator to ensure museum compliance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act for the first time in the law's 31 year history.
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will host oversight hearing on Wednesday, Feb. 2 at 2:30 p.m. titled “The Long Journey Home: Advancing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act’s Promise After 30 Years of Practice.”
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Earlier today, the International Leonard Peltier Defense Committee (ILPDC) hosted a press conference outside the Sam Gibbons United States Courthouse in Tampa, Florida, demanding that he be immediately released to either a more adequate facility or home. Peltier was diagnosed with COVID-19 on Friday and is currently in the maximum security prison facility in Coleman, Florida.
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- Native News Online Journalist Jenna Kunze is measuring the impacts of boarding school on the Rosebud Sicangu Oyate Reservation
- She’s working in partnership with tribal members and experts across Indian Country
- “This survey will help us better understand ourselves, as well as have better data on who and what we have been through,” said tribal member Christopher Eagle Bear.
- The results will be included in three articles, written by Kunze, to show non-Natives and policy makers the ripple effects caused by Indian Boarding Schools.
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