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WASHINGTON — Keeping a campaign promise to Indian Country, the White House announced on Wednesday that it will host a 2021 White House Tribal Nations Summit this fall. While the exact date is yet to be announced, the summit will take place during the week of November 8, 2021.
Currents

Albuquerque man sentenced to 5 years for assault in Indian Country

September 22, 2021 Native News Online Staff Currents 2534
ALBUQUERQUE, NM – A 32-year old non-Native man was sentenced Monday in federal court to five years for assaulting an American Indian child on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation.

Gun Lake Casino Cuts Ribbon on $100M Expansion

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WAYLAND, Mich. — Gun Lake Tribe Chairman Bob Peters and tribal council members cut the ribbon on the Gun Lake Casino’s $100-million expansion last Friday morning.

#MMIW: FBI Offers $10,000 Reward for Information on Missing Tulalip Tribal Woman

September 20, 2021 Native News Online Staff Currents 3803
SEATTLE — The FBI’s Seattle Field Office is offering a $10,000 reward for information relating to the disappearance of Mary Davis Johnson (Tulalip) who has not been seen since Nov. 25, 2020.

Native News Weekly (9/19/2021): D.C. Briefs

September 19, 2021 Native News Online Staff Currents 1175
WASHINGTON — In addition to news already covered during the previous week, each Sunday Native News Online provides an overview of activity in Washington, D.C. that impacts Indian Country during the past week.
Opinion

The Covid-19 Pandemic is Not Over; The Death Toll Tells the Story

September 19, 2021 Levi Rickert Opinion 1797
OPINION. Understandably, Americans are ready to get on with their lives. Since the first Covid-19 death was announced in the United States 19 months ago, the nation, along with tribal nations, have wanted to get back to their routines of their normal lives by returning to restaurants, shopping, casinos, and going back to school.

Secretary Haaland, From One Indigenous Mother to Another: If Not Now, When Will You Reverse Trump on Wolves?

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Thanks to a recorded interview made public by Pulitzer Prize-winners Carol Leonnig and Phil Rucker, we’ve learned that former President Donald Trump now has other culprits to vilify in his Big Lie. “Indians that got paid to vote in different places” has been added to his roster of delusion.
Sovereignty

Yuchi Pastor calls on President Biden to formally apologize to Native communities for harms inflicted

September 14, 2021 Jenna Kunze Sovereignty 3041
TULSA, Okla.—Negiel Bigpond is a Yuchi elder, an Evangelical pastor, an Indian boarding school survivor and an activist. Since 2003, he’s worked with Sam Brownback—the former U.S. Senator, Kansas Governor and present U.S. Ambassador for Religious Freedom—to pursue a formal apology from the mouth of the United States president for atrocities committed against Native Americans.

Q&A Rebecca Nagle, Host, 'This Land' Podcast

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Education

Under Pressure, S.D. Gov. Noem Delays Social Studies Standards That Erase Native History

September 22, 2021 Levi Rickert Education 1744
PIERRE, S.D. — Facing bipartisan pressure and calls for her resignation by the South Dakota Education Equity Coalition , South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem told the state Department of Education to postpone controversial changes to its social studies standards for up to one year to allow for more public input.

North Dakota Native Makes Her Debut with Children’s Book About Indigenous Culture, Bullying

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Mark Ruffalo, Sarah Eagle Heart Co-producing Film on Present-Day Fight for Black Hills

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PHOTO RECAP: First Americans Museum’s Grand Opening Weekend

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OKLAHOMA CITY—This weekend, the First Americans Museum (FAM) in Oklahoma City opened its doors to the public with a weekend of performances, demonstrations, and ceremonies from dignitaries representing all of the state’s 39 tribes.
Health

Oglala Sioux Tribe Quarantines Students Due to Covid-19

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Environment

$1.3M Getty Grant will Protect and Preserve Wupatki National Monument

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Ojibwe Tribes Sue Wisconsin for Treaty Violations Over Wolf Hunt

September 22, 2021 Native News Online Staff Environment 3524
MADISON, Wis.—Six tribes are suing the state of Wisconsin for its planned November wolf hunt, claiming the proposed hunt violates the tribes’ treaty rights.