After today’s announcement by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Protect ICWA Campaign (the Campaign), which consists of four national Native organizations: the National Indian Child Welfare Association, the National Congress of American Indians, the Association on American Indian Affairs, and the Native American Rights Fund, issued the following statement:
The U.S. Supreme Court announced Monday, February 28, that it will hear several cases challenging the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act, or ICWA. The law was passed in 1978 in response to the disproportionate removal of Native children from their homes, families and communities.
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 during the past week.
The National Congress of American Indians and the Native American Rights Fund (NARF) released the following statement late Friday after President Joe Biden earlier in the day announced his nomination of U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to become the next U.S. Supreme Court associate justice.
President Joe Biden on Friday nominated Ketanji Brown Jackson, 51, a federal appeals court judge for the District of Columbia, to become an associate justice on the U.S. Supreme Court to fill the vacancy created by the upcoming retirement of Associate Justice Stephen Breyer.
The U.S. Department of Transportation's Federal Transit Administration this week announced $8.75 million in competitive grant funding for rural tribal communities for improving transit services.
MINNEAPOLIS — A collaborative of two organizations that celebrate brewing in Minneapolis recently decided to remove labels from a beer can that displayed the name and image of Ira Hayes, one of Indian Country’s most iconic heroes, while other labels continue to be distributed in the so-called “Indigenous Heroes” beer can series which includes iconic Indigenous trailblazers Wilma Mankiller, Dr. Susan Picotte, and Sacheen Littlefeather.
The Navajo Nation on Thursday announced that the Navajo Nation Office of the Controller will complete the mailing of American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) Hardship Assistance checks in the amount of $2,000 for approximately 46,000 Navajo elders, who are 60 years and older and who previously received the CARES Act Hardship Assistance.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — Indian Country Media, the parent company of Native News Online, announced that it will publish its first book in 2022, a compilation of opinion columns by award-winning journalist Levi Rickert, who is a citizen of the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation.