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The Biden-Harris Administration announced on Friday the designation of 4,543 square miles of coastal and offshore waters along 116 miles of California’s central coast as the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, making it the 17th national marine sanctuary in the United States. This new sanctuary will protect the region’s rich marine biodiversity while honoring the cultural and historical connections of Indigenous peoples to the area. It is now the third-largest sanctuary in the National Marine Sanctuary System.

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Tuesday, a delegation of community members from Navajo Nation, Laguna Pueblo and Acoma Pueblo, as well as Hopi and Zuni, arrived by bus. They made this long trip to pressure U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson into bringing the extension of the S.3853 Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to the floor. First passed in 1990, RECA provided compensation and healthcare benefits to victims of radiation exposure due to uranium mining and nuclear testing. 

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Sean Sherman, an Oglala Lakota chef and the driving force behind the nonprofit North American Traditional Indigenous Food Systems (NATIFS), has been named to The Independent’s inaugural Climate 100 List. 

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Apache Stronghold, a Native American advocacy group, has made a final legal plea to the U.S. Supreme Court to block the development of one of the world’s largest copper mines on sacred Arizona land. 

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The Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary, a groundbreaking initiative led by the Northern Chumash Tribe, is closer than ever to becoming the first Indigenous-proposed marine sanctuary in the United States. 
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Corinne Sams, a Member at Large of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR) Board of Trustees, has been honored with the 2024 Ecotrust Indigenous Leadership Award.

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The Match-e-be-Nash-She-Wish Band of Pottawatomi Indians (Gun Lake Tribe) on Friday held its annual sturgeon release into the Kalamazoo River.

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Last week, the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation publicly released its official comments on the Department of the Interior’s (DOI)  Environmental Assessment (EA) of the proposed Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians casino project in Vallejo, CA.

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In the wake of the devastating wildfires that ravaged the Northwest coast of Maui, Hawaii,  the Lahaina community has come together under the banner of Lahaina Strong, a grassroots, mutual aid initiative dedicated to rebuilding their homes, their future, and way of life. 
 
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Last week, Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland finalized the decision to retain protections for 28 million acres of public lands across Alaska in an effort to protect cultural and subsistence resources, according to the Interior Department.

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