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WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Tuesday declared May 5 "Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons Awareness Day."
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — Honoring and remembering missing and murdered Indigenous persons on the Navajo Nation, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer signed a proclamation recognizing May 5, 2021, as "Navajo Nation Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples Awareness Day.”
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Among the special guests on tonight’s Native News Online’s “Crisis in Indian Country: Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women” Facebook live stream will be Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, who sent a video to discuss the epidemic spread.
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SACRAMENTO — A bill to replace a toppled statue of Junipero Serra that once stood in Sacramento’s Capitol Park with a monument honoring Indigenous tribes in the Sacramento region won committee approval last week in a unanimous bipartisan vote.
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RED LAKE INDIAN RESERVATION — The Red Lake Police Department announced Monday on Facebook that an incident that occurred on Friday, April 30 is being investigated as an arson. On Friday, Native News Online reported that the Red Lake Police Department commented that the incident has been listed as a destruction of property incident. Because the Red Lake Indian Reservation is exempt from Public Law 280, all arsons fall in the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Explosive, and Firearms (ATF).
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BELCOURT, N.D. — Human remains were identified on Tuesday, April 27, 2021 as Melissa “Missy” Ann Poitra, a member of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa—more than 1,600 miles away from her home in Durham, N.C. She had been missing since 2005 and was living with her boyfriend in the Durham area at the time of her disappearance.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — The Navajo Nation is nearing 100,000 fully vaccinated on the nation’s largest Indian reservation in the country. This is good news for the Navajo Nation, which has served as the epicenter of the Covid-19 pandemic in Indian Country.
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CHICAGO — Under blue skies, some 175 American Indians and allies gathered near Chicago, at the River Trail Nature Center in Northbrook, Illinois, to attend the "#MMIW: Gone Missing: #No More Stolen Sisters" event on Saturday, May 1.
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GREEN BAY, Wisc. — The Brown County Sheriff’s Office and the Oneida Nation hosted a press conference on Monday morning providing the community with an update on the targeted shooting at the Oneida Casino Complex, which contains the Radisson Hotel & Conference Center and the Oneida Main Casino that happened Saturday evening at approximately 7:30 p.m. - EDT.
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