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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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President Joe Biden already has the first-ever Native American presidential cabinet secretary in his administration with Deb Haaland, a tribal citizen of the Laguna Pueblo, serving as the secretary of the Department of the Interior. On Friday, he made another first when he issued the Indigenous Peoples’ Day proclamation.
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On Monday, October 11, Native Americans across Indian Country will be commemorating Indigenous Peoples’ Day instead of Columbus Day. To be clear, Indigenous Peoples’ Day is not just for Native Americans.
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Indigenous Peoples’ Day is spreading across the country. On Monday, October 11, 2021, 14 states and over 130 cities will commemorate Indigenous Peoples’ Day.
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On Friday October 8, the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s (SRST) Election Commission hosted a hearing to hear complaints of potential irregularities in the general election results that was held on September 29, 2021. The general election was held throughout the Standing Rock Indian Reservation to elect a new tribal chairperson, vice chair and other tribal council positions.
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A Harvard University analysis of the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) pandemic relief funding showed that 30 tribes received more than half the $20 billion set aside for tribes, according to a report in Tribal Business News.
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President Joe Biden, saying “this may be the easiest thing I’ve ever done so far as President," signed proclamations that restore the original boundaries of Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Northeast Canyons, and Seamounts National Monuments in a White House Rose Garden ceremony on Friday.
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SCHURZ, Nev. — On Saturday, October 2, hundreds of people attended the funeral of Shoshone Paiute Myron Dewey on the Walker River Paiute Indian Reservation in Schurz, Nevada. He died on Sunday, Sept. 26 in a car accident at the age of 49.
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President Joe Biden will sign a proclamation on Friday, Oct. 8, 2021 that will restore the original boundaries of Bears Ears, Grand Staircase-Escalante and Northeast Canyons and Seamounts National Monuments, the White House confirmed Thursday evening.
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