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LAS VEGAS — Attendees of the Reservation Economic Summit (RES 2021) in July will be treated to a keynote address by Academy Award winner Wes Studi (Cherokee). The National Center for American Indian Enterprise (The National Center) announced Studi will be its keynote speaker during a fireside chat during a general session.
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This story is produced by the Indigenous Investigative Collective, a project of the Native American Journalists Association in partnership with High Country News, Indian Country Today, National Native News and Searchlight New Mexico. It was produced in partnership with MuckRock with the support of JSK-Big Local News.
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A spiritual leader who was nationally renowned for revitalizing Native American religion and advocating for Native rights, Chief Leonard Crow Dog (Sicangu Lakota), passed away shortly after midnight on Sunday, June 6 on Crow Dog’s Paradise on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. Chief Crow Dog leaves behind his wife JoAnn Crow Dog and many children and grandchildren. He was 78.
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WASHINGTON — The U.S. Committee on Indian Affairs on Wednesday afternoon will host a hearing to consider President Biden’s nomination of Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan T. Newland to serve as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the U.S. Dept. of the Interior (DOI).
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NORTHERN MINN. — Nearly 200 people were arrested at several locations on Monday, June 7, in northern Minnesota during the largest gathering to date of water protectors against the Enbridge Line 3 replacement project. In addition to those arrested, dozens were given citations at an Enbridge pump station in Two Inlets, Minn.
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ROSEBUD INDIAN RESERVATION — Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Rodney Bordeaux on Sundey ordered flags to be flown at half-mast on tribal government buildings and the tribal casino for one-week in honor of Chief Leonard Crow Dog, who begain his journey to the spirit world just after midnight Sunday.
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BROWNING, Mont. — On June 12, Dillon Software will launch an expanded version of mmipmt.com, a reporting website for cases of missing persons from the Blackfeet Nation. New to the website will be the participation of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai (CSKT) Tribes of the Flathead Nation and crucial new reporting features.
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The Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation is located in north-central Nevada near the Oregon border. For centuries, the area has been used by Paiute and Shoshone people for gathering and hunting. Now, with a lithium mining proposal for Thacker Pass, a region just south of Fort McDermitt, tribal members are worried about how this mine will impact the land.
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RAPID CITY, S.D.— Chief Leonard Crow Dog (Sicangu Lakota), a highly respected medicine man who served as a spiritual leader during the American Indian Movement’s 71-day siege of Wounded Knee on the Pineridge Indian Reservation in 1973, began his journey to the spirit world shortly after midnight Sunday at his home at Crow Dog's Paradise on the Rosebud Indian Reservation. He was 78.
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