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Bigfoot Captured in Student Video in Idaho? You be the Judge
(Idaho) -- ABC News reports that a group of high school students armed with a video camera and some lightning quick instincts may have captured the mercurial, mythic...
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Elizabeth Warren
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Cherokees hammer Elizabeth Warren on ancestry claim ahead of Mass. party convention
(Massachusetts) -- As Massachusetts Democrats meet at their nominating convention today, some members of the Cherokee Nation are stepping up a campaign to get answers...
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SAMPSON: Cherokee Protesting Elizabeth Warren at Democratic Convention is a Waste of Time
(USA) -- Recently, representatives of the three federally recognized Cherokee tribes (the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, and the...
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Fighting Sioux
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Fighting Sioux debate may enter 2014
(North Dakota) -- You’re thinking — hoping maybe — that the Fighting Sioux nickname debate will finally be resolved with the June 12 vote on Measure 4...
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First Nations Politics
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Cree man planning Canada Day flag burning to symbolize “cleansing” of land
(Saskatchewan) -- A 22-year-old Cree man says he is planning to burn the Canadian flag on Canada Day to symbolize a “cleansing” of Indigenous lands.
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Minister Duncan dismisses Dakota claim they’re governed by “law of the land”
(Manitoba) -- As the Dakota in Manitoba continue their fight against the provincial government to sell cheap cigarettes, they also continue to claim their tribe is a...
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Mining & Drilling
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Court Orders Forest Service To Regulate Gold Mining in Salmon Streams
(California) -- The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Forest Service must strengthen its regulation of suction dredge gold mining and other small-scale...
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Other News
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Officials break ground on Navajo water project
(New Mexico) -- Federal, state and tribal officials gathered Saturday in western New Mexico to break ground on the massive Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project.
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OP/ED: Settlement Maximizes Navajo Nation Water Rights
(Arizona) -- Ya’a’teeh doo ahe’hee shi Ke’ adoo shi Dine’e’. Water is sacred. No doubt. So are our people and our future. On the...
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Markey, Boren Call for Hearing on High Levels of Rape in Indian Country
(Washington D.C.) -- Responding to a New York Times investigative report that found the rate of sexual assault of Native women is more than twice the national average,...
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UNPFII Recommends Redress of Doctrine of Discovery Harm
(New York) -- The 11th session of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues ended with the acknowledgment that the racist Doctrine of Discovery continues...
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Groundwater Conditions in Scott River Valley Concern Karuk Tribe
(California) -- On Friday, the Karuk Tribe, based in Happy Camp, California, released a report entitled "Groundwater Conditions" in Scott Valley.
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Fort Chipewyan community alarmed: Two deformed and lesion covered fish caught in Lake Athabasca
(Alberta) -- Wednesday afternoon members of the Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation (ACFN), including Chief Allan Adam, found two grotesquely deformed, lesion covered Fish...
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South Dakota/North Dakota: Tribes receive federal grants
(South Dakota) -- Two American Indian tribes in the Dakotas are getting grants through a federal environmental program. The Environment Protection Agency is giving $200,...
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OTHER VOICES: Diverse Ho-Chunk: One of Siouxland's best-kept secrets
(Iowa) -- Ho-Chunk, Inc. and the Winnebago Tribe are probably one of the best-kept secrets in Siouxland. We have been quietly building a robust economy in Winnebago and...
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MORON ALERT: GOP activist targeting tribal sovereignty again
(Washington) -- Is the Washington state Republican Party taking another misguided run at tribal sovereignty? They are, if Bob Eberle and his fellow Skagit County...
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Oglala Sioux, feds sign deal on 1st tribal park
(South Dakota) -- The country's first tribal national park is continuing to move closer to fruition. Oglala Sioux tribal and National Park Service officials signed a...
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Pine Ridge Residents to Buy Houses They Rent
(South Dakota) -- As part of a plan to provide home ownership opportunities on the Pine Ridge Reservation, Lakota Funds has given all tenants of the 30-unit Eagle Nest...
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Calista cancels annual meeting in Goodnews Bay
(Alaska) -- Calista’s board of directors canceled its June 2 shareholder meeting in Goodnews Bay through a resolution vote May 15. Chairman Art Heckman did not return a...
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Commentary: One Little, Two Little Indians and So On… One Picture that Should Have Remained Unseen
(Michigan) -- Two weeks ago, a provocative picture of a three year old standing on a chair while his mother breast fed him made the cover of TIME magazine.
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Gov. Parnell appropriates $250K for tribal projects
(Alaska) -- The Wrangell Cooperative Association was on the receiving end of financial help from the State of Alaska last week as Governor Sean Parnell included the...
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Colvilles dicker over settlement
(Washington) -- Plans to disburse only 20 percent of a $193 million federal settlement directly to members of the Colville Tribes isn’t sitting well with some...
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E. Idaho tribe plans to distribute $60M to members
(Idaho) -- A Shoshone-Bannock Tribes official in eastern Idaho says $60 million in settlement money the tribe expects to receive as part of a class-action lawsuit will...
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Legislative Immunity: An Official's Motive Is Not At Issue in a Conflict Situation
(Kansas) -- A poor and disconcerting judicial decision on local legislative immunity came down on May 24 from the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas,...
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Tribes see lawsuit's end as path to farming
(South Dakota) -- The resolution of a class-action lawsuit might be the impetus for the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the state of South Dakota to increase efforts...
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BLOG: Patrick O’Donnell’s Basic Bibliography of Indian Law
(Michigan) -- Not a few of the titles here are not about American Indian law as such, but might be considered indispensable (i.e., provide important historical,...
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GAO report shows funding remains challenge to tribes considering more jail time for criminals
(Arizona) -- American Indian tribes authorized to triple the amount of time tribal members can spend in jail say they’re challenged by a lack of funding.
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Journey Through Indian Country / Part 1: Fighting Crime on Tribal Lands
(New Mexico) -- Driving along a remote dirt road on the Navajo Reservation in New Mexico recently, a rancher crested a ridge and noticed two animals intent on something...
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Prairie Band Potawatomi Tribal Police Lauded In Child Rape Case
(Kansas) -- The Potawatomi Tribal Police Department received high praise from Barry Grissom, the US Attorney in Kansas, and the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation Tribal...
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OP/ED: Is Something Wrong With Modern Medicine?
(California) -- Our society is afflicted with diabetes, heart disease, arthritis and cancer, diseases that were less common a century ago. According to the Centers for...
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150 run to help reservation’s preschool
(California) -- The inaugural Soboba Parks and Recreation Trail Race attracted more than 150 participants to the Soboba Reservation near San Jacinto on Saturday, June 2.
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CCSD split opposers gaining support
(New Mexico) -- The Navajo Nation's crusade to stop the Central Consolidated School District from splitting is gaining momentum. The Tribal Council's Health, Education...
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June 15 is deadline for applicants for several MSU Native American scholarships
(Montana) -- The Department of Native American Studies at Montana State University in Bozeman has a number of $1,000 scholarships available to incoming Native students.
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MORON ALERT: "Biblical" Genocide? Over 100K Public School Students To Get Lessons On Killing Unbelievers
(USA) -- In a May 30, 2012 story in The Guardian, journalist Katherine Stewart, author of The Good News Club: The Christian Right's Stealth Assault on America's...
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Once again, Haskell delays meeting with newspaper to discuss manipulating test scores
(Kansas) -- Haskell Indian Nations University officials have again cancelled a Journal-World interview with president Chris Redman to discuss academic violations within...
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Battle between BC and Musqueam over desecration of burial site escalating
(British Columbia) -- Tensions mounted this morning in Vancouver as an ongoing dispute over a burial site threatened by a condo went up a notch.
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Bike ride brings many Muscogee Creeks to Macon
(Georgia) -- As he stood for the first time on ancestral lands of his tribe Saturday, Muscogee (Creek) Nation Principal Chief George Tiger began softly singing a hymn in...
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BLOG: Racist comments from anonymous posers are outrageous
(Manitoba) -- I have talked to so many people, including journalists who have actually written some of the articles, about the usual torrent of just plain stupid and...
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Ex-Bush adviser delves into NY's 'Great Warpath'
(New York) -- After two years advising the George W. Bush administration on issues regarding Iraq, Afghanistan and the high-tech warfare being waged in both countries,...
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Tours available at historic tribal area
(South Dakota) -- Starting this weekend, regular guided tours will be available for the first time at the historic Blood Run Nature Area by reservation.
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VIDEO: Chumash Bless the Malibu Lagoon, Ask For Forgiveness, Healing
(California) -- As protesters rallied in opposition to the Malibu Lagoon project on Pacific Coast Highway Friday, several members of the Chumash tribe carried smoking...
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Y'át'ééh President Obama, Ahéhee' Girl Scouts
(Arizona) -- Tomorrow, I'll be visiting the White House. I've never been to Washington, D.C., so it's very exciting. I'm going to the White House because...
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Ask an Expert: How Real Is the Game Play in Lacrosse’s First Mainstream Movie, Crooked Arrows (Starring Superman!)?
(USA) -- After ceding the Hollywood spotlight to more popular sports over the years, lacrosse finally gets its shining moment in Crooked Arrows, an underdog drama in...
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Cayuga DJ Named Best Party Rocker; A Tribe Called Red on Tour
(Nova Scotia) -- DJ Shub, Cayuga, was crowned Canada’s best DJ at the Red Bull Thre3style competition in Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Saturday, according to NiagaraThisWeek.
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Discovery's 'American Chopper' at Native American museum in Indianapolis
(Indiana) -- I went to a fabulous museum show recently. This exhibition featured the work of master artists, highlighted aspects of American culture, traced the history...
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Inuit Artcirq Performs at Diamond Jubilee Pageant Before Queen Elizabeth II
(UK) -- Aboriginals are among those feting Queen Elizabeth II this weekend for her Diamond Jubilee, the 60th year of her reign. The group Artcirq had a first-hand role...
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Native Canadian comic Ryan McMahon and his alter ego Clarence Two Toes get a CBC special
(Alberta) -- “It’s a little too angry.” That was the feedback native Canadian comedian Ryan McMahon says he received from the folks at Just for Laughs in 2008 when he...
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Piscataway celebrate new status with pride
(Maryland) -- Men, women and children of the Piscataway and other Mid-Atlantic Native American tribes danced and sang to the beat of heavy drums under a bright sun here...
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BLOG: A Legal Battle Over Newly Returned Bison
(Montana) -- The legal battle continues over the fate of a herd of wild bison that are roaming the plains of northern Montana for the first time in more than a century.
6/1/2012
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Does the Shadow of Big Tobacco Loom Behind the Recent Seizure of Mohawk Cigarettes?
(New York) -- In the summer of 2011, the Altria Group, the biggest of the Big Tobacco companies and the parent company of Philip Morris USA, released a “white...
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Spirit Lake to appeal U.S. court’s dismissal of its suit against NCAA
(North Dakota) -- Fighting Sioux nickname supporters at the Spirit Lake Sioux Tribe have signaled they intend to appeal U.S. District Judge Ralph Erickson’s...
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Tribe Wins Ruling Against Gold Mining
(California) -- A federal appeals court ruled Friday that the Forest Service’s policies permitting gold mining in rivers in national forests violated the...
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Wyoming tribes spar over plan to kill bald eagles
(Wyoming) -- The Northern Arapaho Tribe maintains neither the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service nor the Eastern Shoshone Tribe has the right to prevent its members from...
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Indian residential school deaths found by Ontario coroner
(Ontario) -- An intensive review of Ontario records has so far turned up more than 100 possible cases of previously unidentified child and youth deaths linked to Indian...
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For Elizabeth Warren, a bump becomes a hurdle
(Massachusetts) -- It started as a one-day story, a chuckle on conservative talk radio in Boston. In late April, the Boston Herald reported that Democratic Senate...
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Scott Brown Campaign: Elizabeth Warren Should Reach Out to Natives
(Massachusetts) -- The campaign of U.S. Senator Scott Brown, Republican of Massachusetts, has done something that Elizabeth Warren, his main Democratic challenger for...
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THE HILL: Warren admits she's 'concerned' about her campaign in wake of heritage controversy
(Massachusetts) -- Elizabeth Warren admitted Thursday that she was "concerned" about her U.S. Senate campaign after repeated stumbles in addressing the...
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Conference: Renewable Energy Presents Economic Opportunities for Tribes
(Arizona) -- More than 250 attendees representing over 100 tribes attended the 5th Annual Renewable Energy Projects in Indian Country Conference, hosted by Native Nation...
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Feds, tribal officials to break ground on massive Navajo-Gallup pipeline
(Washington D.C.) -- Federal and tribal representatives will break ground Saturday morning on the first phase of the $1 billion Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project, which...
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Dakotas Tribes Get Federal Environmental Grants
(North Dakota) -- Two American Indian tribes in the Dakotas are getting grants through a federal environmental program. The Environment Protection Agency is giving $200,...
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Native Sun News: Indians be dammed -- Missouri River revisited
(South Dakota) -- Lost land and possessions were far from the only issues raised by the relocation of Native American communities under the 1944 Flood Control Act,...
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Tribal Council Planning Another Rally Protest
(Toronto) -- The Mamaweswen, North Shore Tribal Council is organizing an upcoming rally in Toronto on Monday, June 4, 2012. The rally is being organized in response to...
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Newton wins restraining order in rift over celebrity museum plans
(Las Vegas) -- A judge granted Wayne Newton a temporary restraining order against his landlord Thursday amid stalled plans to turn his lavish Las Vegas estate into a...
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Muscogee (Creek) Nation bike tour to retrace Trail of Tears
(Oklahoma) -- The journey from the Ocmulgee Mounds in Georgia to the city of Okmulgee is marked by stories of tragedy and loss but also pride and triumph for the...
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Class of 2012: Miss Blackfeet, bound for Stanford, hopes to inspire other Indian girls
(Montana) -- As a seventh-grader, Sharen Kicking Woman remembers watching the crowning of Miss Blackfeet during Browning’s North American Indian Days in awe and...
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Feds: 19 indicted in Fort Apache gang, drug probe
(Arizona) -- A federal grand jury has indicted 19 people after a gang and drug enforcement operation on the Fort Apache reservation in northeastern Arizona.
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Ho-Chunk Inc. has grown into global enterprise
(Nebraska) -- The Winnebago Tribe's reservation in Northeast Nebraska is home to about 2,800 enrolled members. The tribe, a federally recognized, sovereign nation,...
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Manitoba’s cigarette battle with Dakotas could end with blockades: Nelson
(Manitoba) -- A battle between Manitoba and Dakota communities over cigarette taxes could spread across the province and ignite rail blockades and other actions, says...
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Musqueam negotiations ongoing says B.C. minister
(British Columbia) -- B.C.'s Minister for Aboriginal Relations and Reconciliation says she's disappointed the Musqueam First Nation chose to disrupt traffic in...
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Tribal group appeals ruling on Fighting Sioux suit
(North Dakota) -- A tribal group that's hoping to save the University of North Dakota's Fighting Sioux nickname says it will appeal a judge's decision to...
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Ontario calls joint inquest into 7 aboriginal student deaths
(Ontario) -- Ontario's Chief Coroner will hold a joint inquest into the deaths of seven First Nations teenagers from remote reserves who were living in Thunder Bay...
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SD court upholds conviction in 1975 AIM slaying
(South Dakota) -- The South Dakota Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a Canadian man's murder conviction and life sentence in the 1975 slaying of a fellow American...
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Senate bill causes uproar
(California) -- A bill moving through the California Legislature has set off alarms in the Santa Ynez Valley because of its implications for the Santa Ynez Band of...
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Fremont County protests fees in voting rights case
(Wyoming) -- Fremont County is balking at paying legal fees for a group of American Indians whose court challenge forced the county to abandon its system of at-large...
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Cherokees to protest Warren at convention
(Massachusetts) -- Cherokees angered by Elizabeth Warren’s claims of Native American heritage said today they’ll stand in silent protest against the...
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Full statement by Elizabeth Warren on ancestry
(Massachusetts) -- Growing up, my mother and my grandparents and my aunts and uncles often talked about our family’s Native American heritage. As a kid, I never...
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BLOG: Arizona Democratic Party waging war against only Native American candidate for Congress
(Arizona) -- Estimadas/os: The Arizona Democratic Party is waging a campaign against Democrat Wenona Benally Baldenegro—who is on track to make history by being...
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18 candidates vying for 3 seats on Poarch tribal council
(Alabama) -- Two at-large seats and the office of vice chairman may be decided when the 2012 Poarch Band of Creek Indians Tribal Council elections are held Saturday, the...
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Nebraska high court won't take up Keystone XL pipeline case
(Nebraska) -- The Nebraska Supreme Court has refused to hear a direct challenge to the state's new pipeline siting law.
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Congressional Hearings Sought on Abuse of Native Women
(Washington D.C.) -- House Democrats on the Natural Resources Committee have called on the committee’s Republican leadership to hold oversight hearings based on...
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Residential school trauma haunts women still
(Canada) -- The legacy of residential schools continues to impact thousands of Aboriginal men and women across the country.
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