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Treasury secretary makes ‘historic’ visit to Rosebud

Treasury secretary makes ‘historic’ visit to Rosebud

Jun 22, 2022

Brenda Meade, chair of the Coquille Tribal Council, shakes hands with members of the Oregon Fish and Wildlife Commission on June 17, 2022, after the commission approved a co-management agreement between the tribe and state. (Photo courtesy of ODFW)

Amid drastic declines in Chinook salmon in the Coquille River watershed, the Coquille Indian Tribe began pushing the state for more authority in managing natural resources, culminating in a state commission approving an agreement

By Chris AadlandJun 23, 2022

Bears Ears National Monument sign in Utah. (Photo courtesy of Utah Diné Bikéyah)

In this Weekend Edition of the ICT Newscast, meet an Ojibwe woman who is passionate about healthy mothers and children. The Alaska Native Heritage Center is a mainstay for cultural knowledge and education, and wisdom from a Yakama elder

By ICTJun 24, 2022

The group is comprised of descendants of Marpiya te najin, Jeff Bolton who recently retired Chief Administrative Officer of Mayo Clinic, and Valerie Guimaraes from the trip to Santee, Nebraska. (Photo courtesy of Valerie Guimaraes)

Mayo and Dakota tribal elders discussed ways that Mayo could honor Marpiya te najin and what would be appropriate

By Mayo ClinicJun 2, 2022

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By Jourdan Bennett-BegayeJun 23, 2022

(L-R) Debra Bordeaux, the vice president of Student Services at Sinte Gleska University, US Treasurer Lynn Malerba, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen and Rosebud Sioux Tribe President Scott Herman on Wednesday, June 21, 2022 on the Rosebud Reservation. Malerba joined Yellen in meeting with tribal leaders in what is the first time a U.S. treasury secretary had visited a tribal community. (Photo by Vi Wahn, ICT)

Janet Yellen and newly appointed U.S. Treasurer Lynn Malerba meet with tribal leaders

By Vi WalnJun 22, 2022

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This undated photo shows a bronze statue of Ponca Tribal Chief Standing Bear at the U.S. Capitol in Washington. A tomahawk once owned by Chief Standing Bear, a pioneering Native American civil rights leader, will be returning to his Nebraska tribe after decades in a museum at Harvard. The university's Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology says it's been working with members of the Ponca Tribe in Nebraska and Oklahoma to repatriate the artifact. (Joseph Morton/Omaha World-Herald via AP)

'This is a good homecoming and a good step in the many steps we have to do to get back to our identity, to our ways of our people'

By The Associated PressJun 25, 2022

Protesters rally in support of abortion rights, Tuesday, May 3, 2022, in New York. A draft opinion suggests the U.S. Supreme Court could be poised to overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade case that legalized abortion nationwide, according to a Politico report released Monday. (AP Photo/Jason DeCrow)

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FILE - Members of the Supreme Court pose for a group photo at the Supreme Court in Washington, April 23, 2021. Seated from left are Associate Justice Samuel Alito, Associate Justice Clarence Thomas, Chief Justice John Roberts, Associate Justice Stephen Breyer and Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Standing from left are Associate Justice Brett Kavanaugh, Associate Justice Elena Kagan, Associate Justice Neil Gorsuch and Associate Justice Amy Coney Barrett. The Supreme Court is refusing to say whether the nine justices have received COVID-19 vaccination booster shots, with the omicron variant surging and in-person arguments over vaccines scheduled at the court on Friday, Jan. 7, 2022. (Pool photo by Erin Schaff/The New York Times via AP)

Many are organizing rallies and support services across the country

By ICTJun 24, 2022

The chamber of the House of Representatives is seen at the Capitol in Washington, Monday, Feb. 28, 2022. President Joe Biden will deliver his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to a joint session of Congress and the nation. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

The special primary was the first election under a system approved by Alaska voters that ends party primaries and institutes ranked-choice voting. #NativeVote22

By The Associated PressJun 24, 2022

Dianna Nez, 65, waves at the Navajo Nation presidential candidates during a forum held at Twin Arrows Casino near Flagstaff on June 21, 2022. (Photo by Shondiin Silversmith | Arizona Mirror)

Eleven of the 15 Navajo candidates running showed up to the forum. #NativeVote22

By Shondiin SilversmithJun 24, 2022

"My body, my choice!" resonates from protesters on the front lawn of the Guam Congress Building in Hagåtña during a protest as they voiced their concerns against the Guam Heartbeat Act of 2022 on April 27, 2022. Women from the remote U.S. territories of Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands will likely have to travel farther than other Americans to terminate a pregnancy if the Supreme Court overturns a precedent that established a national right to abortion in the United States. (Rick Cruz/The Pacific Daily via AP, File)

The Supreme Court struck down Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pa. v. Casey that affirmed the right for people who birth to access abortion

By Pauly DenetclawJun 24, 2022

In this photo taken on Tuesday, Dec. 29, 2015, prison guards walk down a corridor in the Adjustment Center at San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. The longest-serving inmate on San Quentin's Death Row, Douglas "Chief" Stankewitz, is seeking a new hearing that could make him eligible for parole in a murder he maintains he did not commit in 1978. (AP Photo/Ben Margot)

Douglas ‘Chief’ Stankewitz believes a new hearing will result in his release from San Quentin Prison

By Richard Arlin WalkerJun 24, 2022

A dress designed by Jamie Okuma, Luiseño and Shoshone-Bannock, is part of an exhibition, “In America: A Lexicon of Fashion,” that will run through Sept. 5, 2022, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Here, Okuma's niece, model Neshay Linton, wears the dress, which Okuma made by hand. (Photo by Cameron Linton, courtesy of Jamie Okuma)

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This July 8, 2021 image of a photograph archived at the Center for Southwest Research at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, New Mexico, shows a group of Indigenous students who attended the Ramona Industrial School in Santa Fe. The late 19th century image is among many in the Horatio Oliver Ladd Photograph Collection that are related to the boarding school. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Indian Country headlines for Thursday, June 23, 2022

By ICTJun 23, 2022

Drummers play and sing during a ceremony to mark the one-year anniversary on May 23, 2022, of the Tk'emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation's announcement of the detection of the remains of 215 children at an unmarked burial site at the former Kamloops Indian Residential School, in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press via AP)

Pope Francis is due to visit Canada in late July to apologize to Indigenous peoples for abuses they suffered at Catholic-run residential schools

By The Associated PressJun 23, 2022

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland at the Interior Department's press conference on its federal boarding school investigation in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday, May 11, 2022. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland offers emotional testimony to Senate Committee

By Mary Annette PemberJun 23, 2022

FILE - In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a collapsed "net pen" used by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm Atlantic Salmon near Cypress Island in Washington state on Aug. 28, 2017, after a failure of the nets allowed tens of thousands of the nonnative fish to escape. A Washington state jury on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, awarded the Lummi Indian tribe $595,000 over the 2017 collapse of the net pen where Atlantic salmon were being raised, an event that elicited fears of damage to wild salmon runs and prompted the Legislature to ban the farming of the nonnative fish. (David Bergvall/Washington State Department of Natural Resources via AP, File)

The Lummi Nation sued in 2020, saying that while the fishers themselves had been compensated for their efforts, the company had not reimbursed the tribal government for responding to the spill

By The Associated PressJun 23, 2022

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The illegal excavation caused more than $300,000 in damage, the U.S. Attorney's office in Kansas City said

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