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FILE - In this Jan. 13, 2014, file photo, Billy Frank Jr. poses for a photo near Frank's Landing on the Nisqually River in Nisqually, Wash. Gov. Jay Inslee on Wednesday, April 14, 2021, signed a measure that starts the process of honoring the late Frank, a Nisqually tribal member who championed treaty rights and protecting the environment, with a statue at the U.S. Capitol. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren, File)
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Statue of Nisqually leader step closer to Capitol

Legislation making its way through Congress aims to reaffirm that tribal epidemiology centers should have access to state and federal health data. Tribal leaders have had trouble accessing information to help fight COVID-19 and other diseases in places like the Navajo Nation, where this sign stands. (Photo by Daja E. Henry/Cronkite News)
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Navajo Nation reports no COVID-19 deaths for 4th day in row

FILE - In this March 3, 2021, file photo, pharmacist Madeline Acquilano draws a syringe of Johnson & Johnson COVID-19 at Hartford Hospital in Hartford, Conn. Despite the clamor to speed up the U.S. vaccination drive against COVID-19 and get the country back to normal, the first three months of the rollout suggest faster is not necessarily better. (AP Photo/Jessica Hill, File)
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US recommends 'pause' for J&J vaccine over clot reports

FILE - In this March 5, 2020, file photo, Hunter Maltz, a fish technician for the Yurok tribe, pushes a jet boat into the low water of the Klamath River at the confluence of the Klamath River and Blue Creek as Keith Parker, as a Yurok tribal fisheries biologist, watches near Klamath, Calif., in Humboldt County. One of the worst droughts in memory in the massive agricultural region straddling the California-Oregon border could mean steep cuts to irrigation water for hundreds of farmers this summer to sustain endangered fish species critical to local tribes. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which oversees water allocations in the federally owned Klamath Project, is expected to announce this week how the season's water will be divvied up after delaying the decision a month. (AP Photo/Gillian Flaccus, File)
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'Reality of climate change'

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announces her decision to sign a law that legalizes recreational marijuana outside the state Capitol building in Santa Fe, N.M., on Monday, April 12, 2021. The Democratic governor described the law as a victory for social justice and a potential boon for economic development. Her decision makes New Mexico the seventh state since last November to legalize adult possession and sales of cannabis for recreational use. The legislation gives the governor strong oversight through the governor's appointed superintendent of the Regulation and Licensing Department. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)
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New Mexico governor legalizes recreational pot

Chad Baybayan, Aloha Day 2011 https://search.creativecommons.org/photos/78ed42aa-b27b-432c-b38e-2cf77c9dcb20 https://www.flickr.com/photos/39309480@N05/6048995301 (Photo courtesy of Embajada de EEUU en la Argentina, Creative Commons)
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Polynesian voyaging canoe captain, navigator dies

The Navajo Nation weighed several plans Thursday to spend the last $177 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds the tribe received – money that has to be spent by the end of the year or will be lost. (Photo by Chelsea Hofmann, Cronkite News)
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Navajo Nation reports 2 more COVID-19 deaths

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US colleges divided over requiring student vaccinations

"Acting Director Elizabeth Fowler is visiting sites in the IHS Billings Area this week to highlight #COVID19 vaccination efforts in Montana. Thank you to our Billings Area team and our tribal and urban Indian organization partners for your work towards reaching community immunity." (Photo courtesy of Indian Health Service via Twitter)
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$8.5B for IHS in Joe Biden's budget

A California condor. The endangered bird could return to the Pacific Northwest for the first time in 100 years. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Facebook page)
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California condor could return to northwest

Dakota Access Pipeline in North Dakota on September 4, 2016. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, File)
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Judge orders delay amid debate over Dakota Access pipeline

"Navajo Nation’s renewable energy future takes step forward with 70-megawatt emissions-free energy project in Red Mesa community." (Photo courtesy of Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez via Twitter)
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Navajo Nation finalizes solar plant leases

"The earth holds so much power. We must all work together to honor it. Photo at Valley of the Gods, Bears Ears #Utah" (Photo courtesy of Interior Secretary Deb Haaland via Twitter)
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Interior secretary steps into Utah public lands tug-of-war

This Jan. 23, 2020, photo shows the National Archives on Sand Point, Wash., that has about a million boxes of generally unique, original source documents and public records. More than two dozen Native American tribes and cultural groups from the Northwest and Alaska are suing the federal government to stop the sale of the National Archives building in Seattle, a plan that would force the relocation of millions of invaluable historical records to California and Missouri. (Alan Berner/The Seattle Times via AP)
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Feds halt sale of National Archives center in Seattle

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Feds rescind Haskell orders on employee speech

Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara Hill, 2021. (Photo courtesy of Cherokee Nation)
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Cherokee Nation AG: Congress must allow state-tribe compacts

Pictured: Cracked earth during Nicaragua's intense dry season.
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Forecast for spring: Nasty drought worsens

Pictured: Christopher Columbus Statue - Minnesota State Capitol on June 10, 2020.
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Confederate symbols prove difficult to remove in many states

Pictured: Jason Stanfill, 44, traveled from Broken Arrow to receive his COVID-19 vaccine at the Cherokee Nation Outpatient Health Center in Tahlequah on March 18. The Cherokee Nation is making it even easier for the public to access the COVID-19 vaccine at tribal health centers throughout the 14-county reservation by broadening vaccine distribution to all those in and outside the reservation.
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UK to ease lockdown next week, will test vaccine passports

Pictured: The New Mexico State Capitol in Santa Fe, known informally as "The Roundhouse".
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Indigenous leaders laud New Mexico's school funding measure

"We believe the North Segment Hawk Estates Apartment fire started approximately around 5:30am." (Photo courtesy of North Segment Councilwoman Monica Mayer via Facebook)
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Fire destroys reservation apartment building

Women's March 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye)
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Justice Department working with tribes on missing persons

Arrowhead Stadium of the Kansas City Chiefs in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 1, 2020. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)
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Colorado is latest to weigh ban on Native mascots

This March 23, 2017 photo shows Democratic Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy of Crow Agency argues against a bill during the legislative session in Helena, Montana. Peregoy has introduced a bill during the 2021 session to make it easier for Native Americans living on reservations to vote, including requiring satellite offices and ballot drop boxes to reduce travel time for tribal members to access voting services. Stewart Peregoy's bill was well received by a House committee. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP)
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Montana piling up barriers to Native vote

Police officers gather near a car that crashed into a barrier on Capitol Hill in Washington, Friday, April 2, 2021. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
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Man rams car into 2 Capitol police; 1 officer, driver killed

Protective medical mask on laptop. The end of the pandemic. (Photo by Nenad Stojkovic, Creative Commons)
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New Mexico schools expand in-person learning

In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019 file photo, Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter speaks during a news conference in Oklahoma City. Oklahoma-based Indian tribes and the state's attorney general are meeting behind closed doors on Monday, Oct. 28, 2019 to discuss the gambling compacts between the state and the tribes that authorize most of the games at tribal casinos. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki, File)
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Oklahoma court tosses more murder convictions

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Oklahoma asks court to rethink overturning murder conviction

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland attends a Cabinet meeting with President Joe Biden in the East Room of the White House, Thursday, April 1, 2021, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)
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Deb Haaland's first Cabinet meeting

Beaver lake trail in the Tongass National Forest in southeast Alaska, near Sitka. (Photo courtesy of USDA Forest Service, Creative Commons)
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Alaska sues to open logging in Tongass

Jonathon Nez, Navajo Nation president, screen shot from September 14 town hall meeting.
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Navajo Nation reports 15 new COVID-19 cases

Meg Cook, director of the archeology collections for the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, left, joins team members, Jessica Walzer, archaeology collections manager, second from left, Robert Waren, NAGPRA (Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act) collections manager, second from right and Arianna Kitchens, archaeology collections manager by one of the work carts with unprovenienced prehistoric pottery and lithics that will be gathered into hand constructed muslin bags, Friday, March 19, 2021 outside the Two Museums' Archaeology Collections Storage room in Jackson, Miss. Several hundred Chickasaw ancestors and artifacts have been collected and will be repatriated to Native hands to be lain in their final resting place at an undisclosed location in the state. (AP Photo/Rogelio V. Solis)
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Years later, Chickasaw remains returning home

FILE - In this Sept. 29, 2020, file photo, players and coaches for the New York Yankees and the Cleveland Baseball Team stand for the national anthem before Game 1 of an American League wild-card baseball series in Cleveland. The Indians are changing their name after 105 years, a person familiar with the decision told The Associated Press on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2020. After months of internal discussion prompted by public pressure and a national movement to remove racist names and symbols, the team is moving away from the name it has been called since 1915, said the person who spoke on condition of anonymity because the team has not revealed its plans. (AP Photo/David Dermer, File)
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Cleveland bans headdresses, painted faces at games

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IRS will delay tax filing due date

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Tribe ends coronavirus checkpoints

This March 23, 2017 photo shows Democratic Rep. Sharon Stewart Peregoy of Crow Agency argues against a bill during the legislative session in Helena, Montana. Peregoy has introduced a bill during the 2021 session to make it easier for Native Americans living on reservations to vote, including requiring satellite offices and ballot drop boxes to reduce travel time for tribal members to access voting services. Stewart Peregoy's bill was well received by a House committee. (Thom Bridge/Independent Record via AP)
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Bill advances to aid Native American voting

U.S. Public Health Service Lt. Cmdr. Erica Harker, IHS Navajo Area pharmacy consultant and a member of the Zuni Tribe, and Gallup Indian Medical Center Chief of Pharmacy Vicky Chavez prepare COVID-19 vaccines to be redistributed from GIMC to other health care facilities on the Navajo Nation, December 14, 2020. (Photo courtesy of the Indian Health Service)
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Indian Health Service shifts vaccine distribution

A Navajo Code Talkers memorial in Window Rock, Arizona on the Navajo Nation. (Photo courtesy of the Navajo Nation)
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Arizona declares holiday to honor Native code talkers

FILE - In this June 12, 2019, file photo, protesters walk up Main Street inasa procession protesting against the Keystone XL pipeline makes its way to Andrew W. Bogue Federal Courthouse in Rapid City, S.D. A U.S. Supreme Court decision this week could further stall construction of the disputed pipeline just as work began this spring after years of delay. (Adam Fondren/Rapid City Journal via AP, File)
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Keystone XL protesters face charges

In this April 20, 2020, photo, Dr. Diana Hu, left, and a colleague wear personal protective equipment (PPE) as they work in the COVID-19 screening and testing tent in the parking lot at Tuba City Regional Health Care on the Navajo Reservation in Tuba City, Ariz. . (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Navajo Nation extends 'safer at home' order

An artist rendering depicts the completed Catawba casino near Charlotte, North Carolina. (Catawba Resort Rendering: Catawba Indian Nation)
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Feds OK casino revenue agreement between NC, Catawba tribe

FILE - In this June 12, 2019 file photo, Lakota activist Nick Tilsen speaks with the procession protesting against the Keystone XL pipeline outside the Andrew W. Bogue Federal Courthouse in Rapid City, S.D. When former President Donald Trump visited Mount Rushmore last year for a fireworks display, Tilsen saw an opportunity to advance the Land Back Movement, an effort to return to Native American tribes control of land they once held. Instead, he was among several protesters arrested and found himself facing several felonies. (Adam Fondren/Rapid City Journal via AP File)
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Mount Rushmore key in move to regain land

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Watchdog says Haskell president silencing faculty

The Navajo Nation weighed several plans Thursday to spend the last $177 million in federal COVID-19 relief funds the tribe received – money that has to be spent by the end of the year or will be lost. (Photo by Chelsea Hofmann, Cronkite News)
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Navajo Nation reports 8 more COVID-19 deaths

FILE - This Sunday, April 10, 2011 picture shows a rig and supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, off the cost of Louisiana. Thirteen states sued the Biden administration Wednesday, March 24, 2021 to end a suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water and to reschedule canceled sales of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska waters and western states. The Republican-leaning states, led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, seek a court order ending the moratorium imposed after Democratic President Joe Biden signed executive orders on climate change on Jan. 27. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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In shift, oil industry group backs federal price on carbon

Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium Chairman Andy Teuber introduces U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2020. Azar was in Anchorage to tour the Alaska Native Health Campus. (Loren Holmes / ADN)
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Report details helicopter crash piloted by tribal official

FILE - This Sunday, April 10, 2011 picture shows a rig and supply vessel in the Gulf of Mexico, off the cost of Louisiana. Thirteen states sued the Biden administration Wednesday, March 24, 2021 to end a suspension of new oil and gas leases on federal land and water and to reschedule canceled sales of offshore leases in the Gulf of Mexico, Alaska waters and western states. The Republican-leaning states, led by Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, seek a court order ending the moratorium imposed after Democratic President Joe Biden signed executive orders on climate change on Jan. 27. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
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States sue to undo Biden pause on US oil & gas lease sales

In this July 6, 1945, photo, scientists and other workers rig the world's first atomic bomb to raise it up onto a 100 foot tower at the Trinity bomb test site near Alamagordo, N.M. The president of the Navajo Nation and New Mexico residents who live downwind from the site of the world's first atomic blast are among those seeking recognition and compensation from the U.S. government for people affected by uranium mining and nuclear testing carried out during the Cold War. A congressional subcommittee was taking testimony Wednesday, March 24, 2021, about who should be eligible under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act. (AP Photo/File )
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Renew push for US atomic blasts payout

Legislation making its way through Congress aims to reaffirm that tribal epidemiology centers should have access to state and federal health data. Tribal leaders have had trouble accessing information to help fight COVID-19 and other diseases in places like the Navajo Nation, where this sign stands. (Photo by Daja E. Henry/Cronkite News)
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Navajo Nation reports 2 COVID deaths

Sections of pipe await placement near Grand Rapids, MN for the Enbridge Line 3 project. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)
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Enbridge Line 3 pipeline argued in appeals court