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PIERRE, S.D. — Democrats Shawn Bordeaux and Peri Pourier, along with Republican Tamara St. John, were each re-elected for an additional term in South Dakota’s House of Representatives in yesterday’s election. Red Dawn Foster and Troy Heinert, both Democrats, were re-elected to the South Dakota State Senate.
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CHICAGO — Kicking off Native American Heritage Month controversy, the Chicago Blackhawks announced that it will conduct land acknowledgements before each home game in honor of Indigenous peoples.
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WASHINGTON — The outgoing vice chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, Sen. Tom Udall (D-N.M.), who chose not to seek re-election for his Senate seat in this election, released the following statement marking November as Native American Heritage Month:
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WASHINGTON — With the millions of mail-in ballots still needed to be counted, most Americans went to bed without knowing the results of the 2020 presidential election. The over abundance of ballots is the result of an increase in those who chose to mail in their ballots to avoid the possibility of contracting the deadly coronavirus.
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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — On Tuesday, the Navajo Nation reported 72 new Covid-19 positive cases. The total number of Covid-19 cases since March 17, 2020 is now approaching 12,000 cases with a total of 11,947.
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BOISE, Idaho — Paulette Jordan (Coeur d’Alene Tribe) has come up short in her bid to become the first Native woman elected to the U.S. Senate, losing to Republican incumbent Sen. Jim Risch, according to an early Associated Press projection.
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WASHINGTON — The Democrats will retain control of the House of Representatives for the 117th Congress. The Democrats flipped the House in the 2018 mid-term election. Without all races decided, the Democrats are expected to have 234 seats to the Republicans’ 201.
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MINNEAPOLIS — Some businesses around the United States put up plywood to protect their assets in advance of Election Day. They fear the possibility of violence, similar to the rioting and looting that took place across the country in the aftermath of the death of George Floyd at the hands of Minneapolis police officers in late May.
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A video depicting cars waving Trump flags surrounding a Biden bus in Texas made the rounds online last week, and even appeared on the president’s Twitter feed. Voting rights activists say incidents like these are some of the biggest factors suppressing Native votes in the Lone Star state, which has a history of voter intimidation and suppression. Just last week, the Texas Supreme Court held that Gov. Greg Abbott could order counties to supply only one ballot drop box apiece, even though some counties can take hours to drive across.
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