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AITKIN, Minn. — Winona LaDuke was released Thursday from Aitkin County Jail in Minnesota, after spending three days in custody.
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WASHINGTON — The Department of the Interior announced on July 15 that it will begin consultations with tribal and Native Hawaiian community leaders about an overhaul of regulations that implement the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). The draft regulations will reshape the processes by which federal agencies and museums return Native American human remains and cultural objects to descendents and Native communities.
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On Monday, Alaska’s largest Native organization and several other groups sued state Gov. Mike Dunleavy’s administration over its move to drain a pool of money that subsidizes high rural energy prices for roughly 84,000 Alaskans in 194 communities.
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SAINT PAUL, Minn. — On Monday, the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (BCA) announced that a man’s remains were found in several five-gallon buckets and a tote bag on the bottom of Lake Superior on July 15. His name is Richard “Ricky” Anthony Balsimo and he’s a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa in North Dakota. The family says he was last seen in Minneapolis late June 19. Police say he was last seen in St. Paul on June 20.
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CARLISLE, Pa. — Following last week’s exhumation of nine Rosebud Sioux youth who were buried at the former Carlisle Indian Industrial School for more than a century, Army officials said they are working with additional requests for disinterment.
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WARNING: This story contains distressing details about residential and boarding schools for Indigenous children.
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In the wake of the discovery of several mass graves holding the remains of Indigenous youth who died at residential schools in Canada, the United States’ first Native American cabinet secretary, Deb Haaland, is driving America's investigation into its own dark history.
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TAMA, Iowa — The long journey home from Carlisle, Penn.—both in distance and time—to the Rosebud Indian Reservation for the remains of nine children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School some 140 years ago included a stop Meskwaki Settlement, near Tama, Iowa on Thursday evening.
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WASHINGTON — Each week, Native News Online brings you the latest Indian Country news and moves from Washington, D.C. This past week three of President Joe Biden’s nominations moved forward that are significant to Indian Country. Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs at the Department of the Interior Bryan Newland’s nomination to be the Assistant Secretary of the Interior – Indian Affairs was sent to the full Senate for consideration.
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