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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear a challenge to North Dakota’s legislative map, affirming one Native-majority district and dismissing an appeal regarding another.
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The Association on American Indian Affairs will host its 10th Annual Repatriation Conference next month, focusing on new federal regulations and featuring training on cultural heritage protection.
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) now leads the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs as its chair, with former chairman Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) serving as vice chair following committee leadership appointments on Jan. 7.
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Biden’s Indian Boarding School Apology Marks New Chapter in Healing, Says Interior Secretary Haaland
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President Joe Biden made history on the Gila River Indian Reservation last October with the first-ever formal apology from the U.S. government for the federal Indian boarding school system, where tens of thousands of Native children were forcibly sent to schools designed to erase their cultures and languages.
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A bill protecting the rights of Native American students in Michigan to wear regalia during graduation ceremonies has been sent to Governor Gretchen Whitmer’s desk.
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This January, Native communities are recognizing the 50th Anniversary of the Indian Self Determination and Education Act that was signed into law by President Gerald R. Ford on January 4, 1975.
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Guest Opinion. Fifty years ago, President Ford signed the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act of 1975 into law. This seminal law – the product of tireless Native activism that rallied against a centuries-long status quo – changed how tribal governments serve their people. It solidified that, while the federal government is a partner with trust and treaty obligations to tribes, it is tribes that know best what their people need from their governments.
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On January 4, 1975, President Gerald Ford signed into law the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act, a piece of legislation that fundamentally reshaped federal-tribal relations.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior has confirmed the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s aboriginal rights to a contested property in Hampton Bays, New York, potentially derailing state and local efforts to regulate the tribe’s development projects there.
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Muscogee (Creek) Nation Principal Chief David Hill and Governor Kevin Stitt have signed an agreement to extend negotiations on a Tobacco Tax Compact between the Muscogee (Creek) Nation and the State of Oklahoma for an additional three months.
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