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US Interior Secretary Haaland reflects on tenure and tradition amid policy challenges

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has made history a few times in her political career, becoming one of the first Native American women to serve in Congress and as the first to hold the reins of the Interior Department

The Independent UK

Court to hear appeal over Biden-backed Nevada lithium mine opposed by tribes, environmentalists

A U.S. appeals court is considering challenges to a huge lithium mine in Nevada that pits environmentalists and Native Americans against President Joe Biden’s plans to combat climate change

The Independent UK

Don’t take away gray wolves’ protection under Endangered Species Act without proper discussion

The best available scientific evidence supports stronger protections for wolves.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Colombia honors searchers and sniffer dog that helped find 4 children who survived plane crash

Colombia’s president has handed out 86 medals to soldiers, Indigenous volunteers and others who helped rescue four children who spent 40 days on their own in the jungle after a plane crash

The Independent UK

Controversial San Jose State prof who posed with Native American skull to resign after settlement reached

SAN JOSE — A controversial anthropology professor at San Jose State, who contended she was a victim of a “woke activist mob” for opposing the repatriation of Native American remains and posing in a photo with an ancient skull, has agreed to leave the university next year.

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Navajo Nation's water situation is vague

The decision leaves water infrastructure for the Navajo Nation on unsure ground

Salon

‘Conservative justices? Yeah, in what way?’ Key senator on a supreme court in thrall to special interests

Sheldon Whitehouse says recent court may be undergoing a ‘course correction’ following backlash to its extremist ruling and ethics scandals

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Justice Kavanaugh's Arrested Development

U.S. v. Texas, Linda v. Richard, and Brett v. Amy.

Reason

Newly released body camera footage shows Border Patrol agents shooting a tribal member in Arizona

U.S. Customs and Border Protection have released body camera footage that shows Border Patrol agents were concerned that a tribal member they fatally shot last month many have been carrying a handgun

The Independent UK

Supreme Court makes Navajo Nation's fight for more water harder

A Supreme Court ruling this week will make it harder for the Navajo Nation to get water from the Colorado River

The Independent UK

Supreme Court rules the US is not required to ensure access to water for the Navajo Nation

The Navajo Nation, the largest Native American reservation in the U.S., covers 27,000 square miles (70,000 square kilometers) in the Southwest – an area larger than 10 states. Today it is home to more than 250,000 people – roughly comparable to the population of St. Petersburg, Florida, or Winston-Salem, North…

The Conversation

Making Sense of Arizona v. Navajo Nation

Justice Gorsuch's conservative colleagues now ignore him in Indian cases.

Reason

Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation’s access to drought-stricken Colorado River, despite US treaty

Tribe says 1800s treaty creates obligation for US to secure water acces

The Independent UK

Supreme court rules against Navajo nation in Colorado River water dispute

Native American tribe argued federal government had not fulfilled obligations in battle over dwindling water supplies

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US Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in water rights case

Indigenous community had sought to assess water needs amid historic drought in the Colorado River Basin.

The Independent UK

Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation in Colorado River water rights case

The Supreme Court has ruled against the Navajo Nation in a dispute involving water from the drought-stricken Colorado River

The Independent UK

A nuclear site is on tribes' ancestral lands. Their voices are being left out on key cleanup talks

Three Native American tribes have devoted decades to returning their ancestral land in Washington to the days before they became the most radioactively contaminated site in the nation’s nuclear weapons complex

The Independent UK

Navajo Nation declares widespread Medicaid scam in Arizona a public health state of emergency

A widespread Arizona Medicaid scam that has left an unknown number of Native Americans homeless on the streets of metro Phoenix is being declared a public health state of emergency by the Navajo Nation as fraudulent sober living homes lose their funding and turn former residents onto the streets

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The sex abuse convictions of a man at the center of a tribal sovereignty ruling have been reversed

A federal appeals court has overturned the sexual abuse convictions of an Oklahoma man at the center of a U.S. Supreme Court ruling on tribal sovereignty

The Conversation

How Mexican indigenous languages are surviving against the odds – new research

Being able to speak the dominant language wherever you are in the world has long been shown to be economically beneficial. This is particularly the case when you’re looking for work.

The Independent UK

Native American tribes say Supreme Court challenge was never just about foster kids

Native Americans say the Supreme Court has reaffirmed their power to withstand threats from states in many areas

The Hindu

Embedded hate: violence and racial discrimination by the U.S. police

The United States Department of Justice report is a wake-up call to police institutions in the country

Reason

How would Justice Barrett have voted in United States v. Lopez?

The limiting principle presented in Lopez would likely not meet her threshold.

The Denver Post

Here’s why the Indian Cultures Hall at Denver Museum of Nature and Science had to come down

DENVER — Donna Chrisjohn began visiting the Denver Museum of Nature & Science at age 6 with her history-loving parents. The North American Indian Cultures Hall, which has been there for 45 years, was of particular interest since Chrisjohn has Sicangu Lakota and Diné ancestry.

The Guardian - US

The supreme court made a surprising ruling for Native American rights

A white couple challenged an adoption law that protects Native children. Thankfully, the conservative court didn’t buy their argument

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