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Opinion. This week is celebrated as Earth Week. On Saturday, April 22, Americans will commemorate the 53rd anniversary of the first Earth Day back in 1970. The day was established as a community-based effort to bring awareness to environmental issues.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. One of my most urgent priorities as Chief of the Cherokee Nation has been combatting the opioid epidemic. The opioid industry flooded Cherokee communities with these dangerous drugs. Overdose deaths more than doubled among Cherokee citizens between 2003 and 2014, and the fallout strained many of our tribal services, including clinics and emergency rooms, law enforcement and child welfare.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Opinion. Olympic great Billy Mills (Lakota) believes dreams can come true.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. For too many generations, citizens of tribal nations around the country, including Cherokee Nation citizens, saw their language, their culture and their artistic expression suppressed and eroded by policies of the United States. Meanwhile, many non-Indians have profited from art based on stereotypes and misrepresentations of Native Americans.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Opinion. Thursday was a historic news day for Native Americans.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. Education has always been sacred to the Cherokee people. Investing in education was one of the first and highest priorities for Cherokee Nation after the Trail of Tears. Despite the extreme hardships of that time, we quickly established schools in our new land. Within a few years, we had built the first primary schools and institutes of higher education on our reservation.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Opinion. America’s culture war hit close to home this week.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Guest Opinion. Everyone deserves to know where their next meal is coming from. Unfortunately, millions of Americans still face food insecurity, which means they can’t always get enough nutritious food for their household. This can be an especially hard challenge for our elders and families with young children.
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- By Chuck Hoskin Jr
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Guest Opinion. The Biden-Harris Campaign promised tribal nations that, among other things, their Administration would “Ensure fulfillment of federal trust and treaty obligations including by working to address chronic underfunding of unmet federal obligations to Indian Country.”
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- By Marvin Weatherwax, chairman of the Coalition of Large Tribes
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Opinion. Citing treaties that date back to 1849 and 1868, the Navajo Nation on Monday morning will argue in the U.S. Supreme Court that it should be granted access to water from the Colorado River.
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- By Levi Rickert
