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Longtime cultural educator Hope Flanagan (Seneca, Turtle Clan) says that, in teaching the true history of a holiday that represented the beginning of colonization for the Indigenous People of America—Thanksgiving—it doesn’t benefit anyone to get angry. 

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Indian Country is mourning the loss of decorated World War II veteran and former Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe tribal councilor Marcella Rose LeBeau, who was inducted into the National Native American Hall of Fame on November 6, 2021 during a ceremony she attended in Oklahoma City. LeBeau passed away on Sunday in Eagle Butte, South Dakota after a brief illness. She was 102.

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Late Monday night, Joanne Shenandoah passed away at the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona following complications of abdominal bleeding and suffering a cardiac arrest. She was 64 years old. 

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Esteemed Native leaders, experts, journalists, and those who have worked to repatriate relatives buried at boarding schools, shared their stories in Native News Online’s Monday webinar, Indian Boarding School Discussion: Dealing with the Trauma Today.

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President Joe Biden signed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act into law on Monday, November 15. The Senate passed the $1.2 trillion dollar bill in August. Thirteen Republicans -- including at-large Alaska Congressman Don Young --  joined the majority of Democrats to pass the bill. 

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WASHINGTON — In addition to news already covered during the previous week, each Sunday Native News Online provides an overview of activity in Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country during the past week.

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On Saturday, November 20th, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) visited Alcatraz Island in San Francisco, Calif., to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of its occupation by Indigenous activists in pursuit of Tribal self-determination. Secretary Haaland delivered remarks about the progress that has been made in Indian Country since, as well as the work needed ahead.

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SAN FRANCISCO — Today Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) made a special trip to Alcatraz Island, to meet with some of the original occupiers of the 1969-1971 Occupation of Alcatraz, known as the Indians of All Tribes. They were there to commemorate the 52nd anniversary of the occupation of the island.

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For decades, Native Americans have found the term “squaw” as derogatory and offensive against Native women. On Friday, the first Native American ever to hold a secretarial position in a presidential cabinet, U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, formally established a process to review and replace derogatory names of the nation’s geographic features.

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