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WASHINGTON — The biggest news in the nation’s capital this past week for Native Americans was the signing of the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) Reauthorization Act of 2022 on Wednesday by President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House.
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Congressman Don Young, the longest-serving Republican in House history and a longtime supporter of Native rights, passed away on Friday. Young was pronounced dead at the Seattle Airport. His death was announced by his congressional office on Friday evening. He was 88.
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Shortly after 2pm on Wednesday, President Joe Biden addressed the nation after signing into law the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization Act (VAWA) of 2022, legislation with specific provisions to enhance protections for Indigenous women. The updated legislation contains a major win for Indian Country sovereignty.
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The U.S. Senate Committee on Indians will hear testimony today, Wednesday, March 16 at 4:00 p.m. ET, on federal programs that help provide Native businesses with equitable access to capital markets.
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NEW YORK—Last August, a white woman, Gabby Petito, was killed by her fiance in Northwest Wyoming, sparking national attention. Petito’s remains were found in just eight days, in the same region where more than 700 Native American people have gone missing in the last decade, according to the Wyoming’s Taskforce on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons.
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The International Indian Treaty Council and the Arctic Athabaskan Council are calling the Russian and Ukraine high-level diplomats to the United Nations in Geneva to safeguard Indigenous peoples residing in Ukraine from the Russian War.
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WASHINGTON — This past week the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) was renewed in the omnibus spending bill. The insertion into the spendng bill is significant because it failed to be renewed during the past three years after it expired in 2019. It is welcomed news in Indian Country because it kept the tribal provision.
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You will lose the hour you gained last fall on Sunday, March 13, 2022 at 2:00 a.m. because it is time to “spring forward” with daylight saving time. The switch to daylight savings time applies to most of the Unites States.
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Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation officials held a press conference in Springfield, Ill. on Wednesday with Illinois state lawmakers who have introduced resolutions in Illinois Legislature that supports the tribe’s claim to reservation land near the village of Shabbona, near Chicago.
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