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LOS ANGELES — The name of California’s first governor who endorsed genocide against California tribes has been expunged from an elementary school in Hawthorn, Calif. A circulating petition nominates “Toypurina” as the new name, after an 18th-century Kizh Nation revolutionary hero.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — On Tuesday, the Navajo Department of Health, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center and the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, reported 15 new COVID-19 positive cases for the Navajo Nation and five more deaths. The reported cases represent the further flattening of the curve on the Navajo Nation that has suffered the most among all other tribes in Indian Country from COVID-19.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — A federal district judge for the Western District of Oklahoma ruled on Tuesday that Oklahoma tribes’ gaming compacts with the state of Oklahoma automatically renewed on Jan. 1, 2020.
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WASHINGTON — Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM), one of the first Native American women elected to Congress, and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) announced a historic bill that would affirm tribal nations’ and Native Hawaiian organizations’ ownership of broadband spectrum over their lands to deploy wireless internet services.
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WASHINGTON — Illuminative, Native Organizers Alliance and the Aspen Institute's Center for Native American Youth launched the Indigenous Futures Survey to collect information and data relating to identifying tribal communities’ priorities for changing narratives about Natives and building a more equitable future, especially in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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BLOOMINGTON, Minn. — White House Advisor Ivanka Trump, along with Interior Secretary David Bernhardt, Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Tara Katuk Mac Lean Sweeney and Lower Sioux Indian Community Vice-President Grace Goldtooth hosted a press conference Monday announcing the first-ever federally funded office dedicated to missing and murdered Indigenous people in Bloomington, Minn.
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DENVER, Colo. – Gerald Montour is still seeking justice for the theft of two nation flags – the Diné (Navajo) Nation flag and the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe flag – that were stolen from the front porch of his and wife Linda’s home in Northglenn, Colo., a northern Denver suburb, over the July 4th weekend.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — On Monday, the Navajo Department of Health, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center and the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, reported 21 new COVID-19 positive cases for the Navajo Nation and two more deaths. The total number of deaths has reached 441 as of Monday. Reports indicate that 6,554 individuals have recovered from COVID-19. 77,741 people have been tested for COVID-19. The total number of COVID-19 positive cases for the Navajo Nation is 8,912.
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JACKSON, Miss. — Chief Cyrus Ben of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians will be part of a nine-member flag commission that will determine the design of a new state flag that does not contain the Confederate battle emblem.
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