October 23, 2021

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Maclaurin Buildings & The Great Dome at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (Creative Commons)
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MIT grapples with early leader's stance on Native people

7 hours ago
Pictured: Oak Flat, Arizona. (Photo: Elias Butler, CC BY-SA 4.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0] via Wikimedia Commons)
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Apaches ask court to back bid to save Oak Flat

21 hours ago
This undated file photo shows the petroglyphs of Grapevine Canyon just outside of Laughlin, Nev., near the Arizona state line. The Fort Mojave Indian Tribe is working to establish the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument to protect thousands of acres of land that include petroglyphs. (Julie Fairman/Mohave Valley Daily News via AP)
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Project aims to preserve tribe’s cultural history

Oct 21, 2021
President Joe Biden walks with his personal aide Stephen Goepfert along the Colonnade Friday, Jan. 22, 2021, to a briefing on the economy in the State Dining Room of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz)
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Joe Biden move could block Minnesota copper mine

Oct 20, 2021
A child waves an American flag during a Fourth of July celebration with frontline workers and military families, Sunday, July 4, 2021, on the South Lawn of the White House. (Official White House Photo by Chandler West)
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White House plan: Vaccinate 28M children age 5-11

Oct 20, 2021
In this Nov. 6, 2018, file photo, Mary Toya, mother to then congresswoman-elect Deb Haaland, celebrates Haaland's win in Albuquerque, N.M. midterms election night. The mother of now U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has died, authorities said Sunday, Oct. 17, 2021. Officials with the Department of the Interior didn't immediately release Mary Toya's age or a cause of death. In a statement, Haaland's spokeswoman Melissa Schwartz said "we celebrate Mary Toya's long life and are grateful for her 25 years of service to Native students as a member of the Interior team within Indian Affairs. (AP Photo/Juan Labreche, File)
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Mary Toya, mother of Deb Haaland, dies

Oct 19, 2021
Marie Wilcox, Wukchumni. (Screenshot of Go Project Films)
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Marie Wilcox, who saved her tribe's language, dies

Oct 18, 2021
"Stop the fracking pipelines" sign on the Interior door. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)
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Climate activists resume weeklong protest at Capitol

Oct 15, 2021
The Knik River in Alaska. Photo by Joaqlin Estus, Indian Country Today)
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Alaska Federation of Natives annual meeting will be online

Oct 15, 2021
New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham puts on her face mask when not speaking during an update on the COVID-19 outbreak in the state during an April 15, 2020, news conference in the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. New Mexico Republicans and sheriffs are asking U.S. Attorney General William Barr to look into Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's health orders aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19. They allege the order, which has closed several small businesses, violates residents' civil rights. (Eddie Moore/The Albuquerque Journal via AP, Pool, File)
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Deadline arrives for redistricting advice in New Mexico

Oct 15, 2021
Jori Miller Sherer, Minnetonka President, Adrienne Benjamin, Reconciliation Advisor, David Miller, Minnetonka CEO. (Photo courtesy of Minnetonka website)
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Moccasin maker apologizes for profiting off Native culture

Oct 15, 2021
Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) drives past Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart as teammate DeAndre Jordan sets a pick during the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
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Kyrie Irving doing ‘what’s best for me’

Oct 14, 2021
Offshore wind energy development near New Jersey, 2015. (Photo courtesy of Interior Department's Twitter page)
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New wind farms would dot coastlines under Joe Biden

Oct 13, 2021
FILE - In this Aug. 10, 2021, file photo, recently retired state Supreme Court Justice Barbara J. Vigil, right, appears at a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M., as Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham looks on. In her first public address Tuesday, Oct. 12, 2021, Vigil, the new leader of New Mexico's child protection department pledges to restore the agency's credibility, and support new legislation that would increase accountability and strengthen laws protecting tribal children in adoption and fostercare. "We must restore the credibility of CYFD," said Vigil, secretary of the New Mexico Children Youth and Families Department. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee, File)
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New Mexico pledges support for Native adoptions

Oct 13, 2021
This photo from about 1900 shows pupils at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania. The school helped shape policies for Indian boarding schools in the United States and Canada. (Photo courtesy of the Carlisle Indian School Digital Resource Center)
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Governor issues formal apology for boarding schools

Oct 13, 2021
Workers remove the Christopher Columbus statue from the Broad Street side of Columbus City Hall in Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday, July 1, 2020. The city says it will be replaced with a different statue or artwork that reflects diversity. (Doral Chenoweth/The Columbus Dispatch via AP)
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Spain salutes Christopher Columbus with little opposition

Oct 12, 2021
Brooklyn Nets guard Kyrie Irving (11) drives past Boston Celtics guard Marcus Smart as teammate DeAndre Jordan sets a pick during the first half of an NBA preseason basketball game, Friday, Dec. 18, 2020, in Boston. (AP Photo/Mary Schwalm)
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Kyrie Irving benched

Oct 12, 2021
Ashley Maha'a sits in a park in Honolulu on June 22, 2021. “I’ve met so many people on the mainland, and so, so, so many of them have told me that when they were being trafficked nationally, they would be flown here for a period of time and work here when things were slow, because the demand is so high,” Maha'a says. (AP Photo/Audrey McAvoy)
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Group studies scourge of missing, murdered Native Hawaiians

Oct 12, 2021
President Joe Biden gestures on the North Lawn of the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, with White House national climate adviser Gina McCarthy, Brenda Mallory, chair of the council on environmental quality, and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during an event announcing that his administration is restoring protections for two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Joe Biden is first president to mark Indigenous Peoples' Day

Oct 10, 2021
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1 dead, 3 missing in attack on Nicaragua Indigenous miners

Oct 8, 2021
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Judge's ruling affirmed in Mississippi families' land feud

Oct 8, 2021
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Montana man committed over allegations of child molestation

Oct 7, 2021
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau visits a memorial at the Eternal Flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa on Tuesday, June 1, 2021, that's in recognition of discovery of children's remains at the site of a former residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. (Sean Kilpatrick/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Justin Trudeau says he regrets vacation on reconciliation day

Oct 7, 2021
President Joe Biden signs proclamations on the North Lawn at the White House in Washington, Friday, Oct. 8, 2021, during an event announcing that his administration is restoring protections for two sprawling national monuments in Utah that have been at the center of a long-running public lands dispute, and a separate marine conservation area in New England that recently has been used for commercial fishing. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)
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Joe Biden expands sacred Bears Ears

Oct 8, 2021
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Another 'other' category for Native COVID-19 data

Oct 6, 2021
Angie Cleary, a registered nurse, cares for Joyce Johnson-Albert as she receives an antibody infusion while lying on a bed in a trauma room at the Upper Tanana Health Center Wednesday, Sept. 22, 2021, in Tok, Alaska. Johnson-Albert was optimistic but also realistic. "I just hope the next few days I'll be getting a little better than now," Johnson-Albert told a reporter on the other side of a closed, sliding glass door to the treatment room two days after testing positive for COVID-19 and while receiving an antibody infusion. "It's just hard to say. You can go either way." (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)
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COVID spike pushes Alaska’s health care system to brink

Oct 6, 2021
Tania Aubid of the Milles Band of Ojibwe holds a bullet-riddled sign opposing the Enbridge Line 3 project in February 2021. The sign had been in front of her home. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember, Indian Country Today)
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Canada cites US treaty in Enbridge pipeline dispute in Michigan

Oct 5, 2021
Shelly Lowe, executive director of Harvard University's Native American program, is Joe Biden's nominee to serve as chairperson of the National Endowment for the Humanities. (Photo courtesy of National Endowment for the Humanities)
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Navajo woman picked to head humanities endowment

Oct 5, 2021
The Montana Mountains loom over Thacker Pass in northern Nevada, July 14, 2021. A federal judge on Friday, July 23, has denied environmentalists' request for a court order temporarily blocking the government from digging trenches for archaeological surveys at a mine planned near the Nevada-Oregon line with the biggest known U.S. deposit of lithium. (Jason Bean/The Reno Gazette-Journal via AP)
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Tribes: New evidence proves massacre was at mine site

Oct 5, 2021
Young school girls attending sewing class at Albuquerque Indian School in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Indian Affairs. Albuquerque Indian School. 1947-ca. 1964. (Photo courtesy of the National Archives)
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Albuquerque resolution recognizes boarding school trauma

Oct 5, 2021
Giovanna Stevens, left, and Kori Williams clean moose intestines at Stevens' family hunting camp on Wednesday, Sept. 15, 2021, near Stevens Village, Alaska. For the first time in memory, both king and chum salmon have dwindled to almost nothing and the state has banned salmon fishing on the Yukon. The remote communities that dot the river and live off its bounty are desperate and doubling down on moose and caribou hunts in the waning days of fall. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
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Dwindling Alaska salmon leave Indigenous people in crisis

Oct 5, 2021
Ninawa Inu Huni kui stands in front of the Elysee Palace after he delivered a letter to the office of French President Emmanuel Macron, in Paris, Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. A Brazilian Indigenous leader is appealing to France's president to use his sway to fight deforestation of the Amazon. (AP Photo/Nicolas Garriga)
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Indigenous leader: Save the Amazon

Oct 4, 2021
Ellison 'Tarzan' Brown running in the 1939 Boston Marathon. Courtesy of the Boston Public Library, Leslie Jones Collection.
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Marathon paying tribute to Indigenous champion

Oct 3, 2021
In this image provided by the Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker, family members and advocates participating in a walk on the Navajo Nation, Wednesday, May 5, 2021, near Window Rock, Ariz., to commemorate a day of awareness for the crisis of violence against Indigenous women and children. (Byron C. Shorty, Navajo Nation Office of the Speaker via AP)
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Navajo girlfriend of slaying suspect missing since 2017

Oct 1, 2021
Sue-meg State Park in Northern California. (Photo courtesy of California State Parks)
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State renames park at request of Yurok Tribe

Oct 1, 2021
This webcam image provided by the United States Geological Survey shows a view of an eruption that has begun in the Halemaʻumaʻu crater at the summit of Hawaii’s Kīlauea volcano, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. (USGS via AP)
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Hawaii's Kīlauea volcano erupts, lava fountains form in park

Oct 1, 2021
Bougainvillea flowers, lava rock wall, banyon tree, Ali'i Drive, Kailua-Kona, Hawai'i Island, Sept. 27, 2021 (Photo by Joaqlin Estus)
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Native Hawaiian deaths spike from COVID

Sep 30, 2021
An Indigenous Ava Guarani Shaman prays during a protest by several Indigenous groups against a proposed bill that criminalizes land invasions, outside Congress in Asuncion, Paraguay, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. If the bill passes it would affect several Indigenous communities who reside on improvised settlements pending the restitution of their lands. (AP Photo/Jorge Saenz)
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Indigenous protest in Paraguay erupts in violence

Sep 30, 2021
North Dakota Capitol. (Photo by Richie Diesterheft, Creative Commons)
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North Dakota panel creates subdistricts on tribal land

Sep 30, 2021
In this Aug. 18, 2020 file photo, Oklahoma Gov. Kevin Stitt answers a question during a news conference at the Central Oklahoma PPE distribution warehouse Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020, in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma had the fifth highest rate of newly reported coronavirus cases last week, according to a report from the White House Coronavirus Task Force report released Wednesday, Sept. 16, 2020, and the task force is again recommending a statewide mandate require masks. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)
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Panel recommends 5 new federal judgeships for Oklahoma

Sep 29, 2021
Assemblymember James C. Ramos presenting HR 40 on the Assembly floor on Thursday, May 6, 2021. (Photo courtesy of Assemblymember Ramos)
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Toppled statue to be replaced with memorial to tribes

Sep 29, 2021
In this Aug. 22, 2019, file photo, Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr., speaks during a news conference in Tahlequah, Okla. Hoskin Jr. plans to invest $16 million into the Oklahoma-based tribe's language preservation program, including a new cabinet-level position focused on its language, culture and community. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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Cherokee Nation reaches $75M settlement with drug companies

Sep 29, 2021
North Dakota Capitol. (Photo by Richie Diesterheft, Creative Commons)
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Pausing idea to split House districts on reservations

Sep 29, 2021
Spokesperson of the Yaqui people Tomas Rojo Valencia participated in the inauguration of the second Festival of Indigenous Cultures, Peoples and Original Neighborhoods of Mexico City in the Zócalo on Thursday, August 27, 2015. (Photo by Antonio Nava, Secretary of Culture via Creative Commons)
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Amid killings and COVID, Yaqui people get pledges

Sep 28, 2021
This Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021 photo provided by Spirit Lake Tribal Chairman Doug Yankton shows a new sign marking the southern border of the reservation near the town of Sheyenne, N.D. The state Department of Transportation remapped and replaced all the signs at the reservation's major ports of entry after they moved in recent years primarily because of ongoing flooding of a lake on the northern part of the territory. The tribe had tried unsuccessfully for nearly two decades to get the markers in their rightful place. (Doug Yankton via AP)
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Spirit Lake Tribe gets new border signs

Sep 28, 2021
In this May 17, 1999, file photo, two Makah Indian whalers stand atop the carcass of a dead gray whale moments after helping tow it close to shore in the harbor at Neah Bay, Wash. An administrative law judge on Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021, recommended that the Makah be allowed to resume whaling along the coast of Washington state, as their ancestors did. (AP Photo/Elaine Thompson, File)
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Makah Tribe wins major step toward resuming whaling

Sep 28, 2021
The former Kamloops Indian Residential School is seen on Tk'emlups te Secwépemc First Nation in Kamloops, British Columbia, Canada on May 27, 2021. The remains of 215 children have been found buried on the site of the former residential school. (Andrew Snucins/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Canadian Catholic bishops apologize for residential schools

Sep 27, 2021
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Drought-hit Colorado River projections grow more dire

Sep 27, 2021
Tesla owners, Tesla employees and local political leaders gather at the service bay doors during an event on Sept. 9, 2021, to celebrate a partnership between Tesla and the Nambé Pueblo after the electric car company repurposed a defunct casino into a sales, service and delivery center near Santa Fe, N.M. Tesla has opened a store on tribal land in New Mexico, sidestepping car dealership laws that prohibit car companies from selling directly to customers. (Jim Weber/Santa Fe New Mexican via AP)
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Tesla opens store on Native land

Sep 25, 2021
This undated photo made available by the National Park Service in September 2021 shows fossilized human fossilized footprints at the White Sands National Park in New Mexico. (Photo courtesy of National Park Service)
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Oldest human footprints in North America found

Sep 24, 2021