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For Once, Cherokee Actor Wes Studi Cast as Romantic Co-star

In Wes Studi’s potent and pioneering acting career, he has played vengeful warriors, dying prisoners and impassioned resistance leaders. For three decades, he has arrestingly crafted wide-ranging portraits of the Native American experience. But one thing he had never done in a movie is give someone a kiss. “I thought…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Blackhawks reveal new programs reaching out to Native Americans

Team CEO Danny Wirtz issued an update on the organization’s plans.

Chicago Sun-Times

Overdose deaths surged in 2020, disproportionately impacting Black and Native American people

New data from the CDC show that Black and Native American people were disproportionately impacted by unintentional drug overdoses in 2020.

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Racial gaps in college graduation widened under funding model meant to boost performance

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Localize It: Secretary Haaland begins 'Road to Healing' tour

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The Independent UK

Road to Healing tour sheds light on suffering of survivors of Native American boarding schools

Native American tribal elders testify about the hardships they endured at government-backed "Indian" boarding schools, including beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, humiliation and painful nicknames.

ABC News

Haaland tour casts light on Native boarding school abuses

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will visit Oklahoma on Saturday for the first stop on a yearlong nationwide tour to hear about the painful experiences of Native Americans who were sent to government-backed boarding schools designed to strip them of their cultural identities

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COVID-19 death data shows racial disparities during the pandemic

While non-Hispanic white people accounted for nearly two-thirds of all deaths nationwide, the non-Hispanic Native American and Black populations died at disproportionately higher rates.

USAFacts

Labeled ‘Hispanic’

Lipan Apaches across Texas are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out.

Texas Observer

$Experts: US Court fractures decades of Native American law$

Experts: US Court fractures decades of Native American law

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding state authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American land is upending decades of law in support of tribal sovereignty

The Independent UK

US Supreme Court rules Oklahoma can prosecute crimes on Native American land

‘The Court’s precedents establish that Indian country is part of a State’s territory,’ Kavanaugh writes as Gorsuch slams majority for ‘ahistorical and mistaken’ interpretation ‘of Indian law’

The Independent UK

1st Native American treasurer to push economic development

The nation’s first Native American U.S. treasurer comes from a line of chiefs who instilled the importance of keeping her tribe healthy and “leaving fooprints” to follow for those who come behind

The Independent UK

Supreme Court rules Oklahoma can prosecute more tribal crimes

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court expanded Oklahoma’s authority to prosecute crimes against Native Americans in much of the state Wednesday, potentially reducing the need for Congress to spend millions of dollars more in the state for the Justice Department and federal courts.

Tribune News Service

US top court expands state power over Native land in Oklahoma

State can prosecute non-Native Americans for crimes committed on tribal land when victim is Native, Supreme Court rules.

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The Independent UK

Justices limit 2020 ruling on tribal lands in Oklahoma

The Supreme Court has ruled that Oklahoma can prosecute non-Native Americans for crimes committed on tribal land when the victim is Native American

Roll Call

Supreme Court rules Oklahoma can prosecute more tribal crimes - Roll Call

The Supreme Court expanded Oklahoma’s authority to prosecute crimes against Native Americans in much of the state Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Harvard returns Standing Bear's tomahawk to Nebraska tribe

Harvard has returned a tomahawk once owned by a pioneering Native American civil rights leader to his tribe

The Independent UK

SF school board rescinds vote to cover up Washington mural

The San Francisco school board has voted to rescind a previous decision to cover up a George Washington campus mural that critics say is racist and degrading in its depiction of Black and Native American people

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The U.S. is reckoning with its troubled past of Indian boarding schools

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and tribal leaders are advocating for a congressional commission to examine the impacts of the federal Native American forced-assimilation policy.

WEKU

Marilynn Malerba could soon be the first Native American to serve as U.S. treasurer

Malerba, the lifetime chief of the Mohegan Indian Tribe, would be the first Native woman to have her signature on U.S. currency. She'd also lead the Treasury's new Office of Tribal and Native Affairs.

The Independent UK

Remains exhumed from Native American school on Army base do not match boy believed buried there, military says

Around 186 Native American children are reported to have died at the school

The Independent UK

Army: Disinterred remains do not match Native American boy

The military says that remains exhumed from a U.S. Army base in Pennsylvania do not belong to the Native American teenager recorded to have been buried there more than a century ago

The Independent UK

President Biden nominates 1st Native American US treasurer

A Native American has been nominated to be U.S. treasurer, a historic first

Manchester Evening News

'Racially insensitive sign' removed from Blackpool Illuminations following complaints

"These were the graves of children whose last days were spent erasing who they were."

The Independent UK

NJ sues Ford over mining that contaminated tribal land

New Jersey officials are suing Ford Motor Company, alleging the automaker contaminated the ancestral homeland of a Native American tribe by dumping paint sludge and other pollutants into a former mine

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