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WASHINGTON — In addition to articles already covered by Native News Online, here is a roundup of other news released from Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country during the past week.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. A Navajo man convicted and sentenced to death in Arizona for a 1978 sexual assault and murder is schedule to be executed on May 11.
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The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a gala in Denver tonight. NARF, the leading Native American legal defense organization across Indian Country, was actually established in 1970 but is celebrating its 50th anniversary two years late because COVID-19 pandemic restrictions prevented in-person gatherings two years ago.
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On July 26, 2021, Lee Michael Pahe of Fort Defiance, Ariz., was found deceased next to a water pump in Naschitti, New Mexico on the Navajo Nation. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the cause of Pahe’s death was a gunshot and his death is being investigated as a homicide.
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After two turbulent years, the 126th Boston Marathon returns to its traditional start on the third Monday in April, and Native runners from across Indian Country will be competing.
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On April 6, the House Committee on Natural Resources was scheduled to hear a series of bill markups including the RESPECT Act—a Democratic-led bill that codifies the federal government and all of its agencies to consult with federally recognized tribes.
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Just as easily as I found Lynn Hartman on my reporting trip to small-town Barre, Massachusetts last week, I could have missed her. I was traveling to Barre from New York City to report on a decades-long contentious issue between museum volunteers and South Dakota tribal members finally coming to a head. The crux of the story is this: The Barre Museum is said to have the largest collection of artifacts taken from the battlefield at Wounded Knee and later sold to a town resident. Those artifacts—including human hair, umbilical cords, scalps, and sacred objects—have remained on the top floor of the town’s library in their mostly-shuttered museum since 1892, when that Barre resident donated the artifacts to the museum. Though some Wounded Knee descendants asked for the artifacts back in the 90s, and then again at least once more in 2007, museum officials have said that disputed ownership claims have made it hard to know which entity to return the artifacts to.
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On January 19, the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) reported that graffiti was discovered on property that it manages just west of Santa Fe along the Santa Fe River, the La Cieneguilla Petroglyphs. The Santa Fe New Mexican reported that some of the petroglyphs were defaced with a pentagram, a swastika and several racial slurs. According to the BLM, it was the third time the site had been vandalized in less than a year and the most damaging of the three incidents.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. — The University of Kansas’s First Nations Student Association (FNSA) hosted its 33rd annual powwow and 5th annual Indigenous Cultures Festival at the University's Lied Center on Saturday, April 9 to a crowd that numbered in the thousands.
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