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Here's What's Going On In Indian Country, November 8 — November 14. November 09, 2024 Kaili Berg. This week in Indian Country, there are plenty of events for everyone to enjoy. From powwows to Indigenous comedy shows, here is Native News Online’s weekly round-up of arts, culture, and entertainment offerings around Indian Country. Read More.
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4 days ago · Native Vote 2024. On Thursday, October 24, the 25th Navajo Nation Council approved Legislation 0232-24, which allocates an emergency appropriation of $961,602 from the Unreserved, Undesignated Fund Balance (UUFB) to the Navajo Election Administration (NEA). By Native News Online Staff. October 30, 2024. Page 1 of 383.
2020 U.S. Census Data Shows American Indian and Alaska Native ...
Aug 12, 2021 · WASHINGTON — On Thursday, the US Census Bureau released demographic data from the Census 2020 that shows tremendous growth in the American Indian and Alaska Native population from 2010 to 2020.
Whose Land Are You On? This App Will Show You Which …
Mar 26, 2021 · Native Land’s world map allows users to input their address and see the Native territories, languages and treaties pre-dating colonization in the area they reside. “For Native Land Digital, what we are mapping is more than just a flat picture. The land itself is sacred, and it is not easy to draw lines that divide it up into chunks that ...
Bois Forte Band Gets 28,000 Acres of Land Back in Northern …
June 07, 2022. In the largest land-back agreement in Minnesota and one of the largest-ever in Indian Country, the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe today restored more than 28,000 acres of land within its reservation boundaries back to tribal ownership. The purchase of the 28,089 acres in northern Minnesota from The Conservation ...
Navajo Nation to Distribute $2,000 in Hardship Assistance for …
Less than a week after the Navajo Nation approved a second round of CARES Act checks for its elders, Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer on Tuesday signed a resolution approving $557 million in American Rescue Plan Act funds for Hardship Assistance to provide direct financial relief for the Navajo people, to …
Google Maps Recognizes Boundaries of Oklahoma Reservations …
September 23, 2020. TAHLEQUAH, Okla. — Google Maps took notice of the McGirt v. Oklahoma decision on July 9, in which the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that Congress never “disestablished” the 1866 boundaries of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation, whose territory encompasses three million acres and includes most of the city of Tulsa.
Class Action Settlement Brings $59 Million to Descendents of the ...
Jun 18, 2021 · WASHINGTON — A $59 million settlement in Peltier v.Haaland, a class action lawsuit alleging trust fund mismanagement and failure to account by the Department of the Interior, will go to four tribes located in the Midwest and Northwest United States and more than 39,000 beneficiaries.. On June 10, the United States District Court for the District of Columbia finalized the settlement, which ...
Part 1: The Native American Community Clinic integrates Western …
This is the first in a three-part series about Native-specific healthcare organizations and their fight to combat the COVID-19 pandemic by offering traditional healing alongside Western medicine.
Natives Living on Reservations Among the Least Counted …
Mar 10, 2022 · Among all Americans, the 2020 Census miscounted roughly 782,000 of the country’s 331 million individuals, according to the Bureau’s analysis. For American Indians and Alaska Natives living on reservations, the 2020 Census was worse than the almost five percent undercount that the Census Bureau reported ten years earlier.