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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)

Harvard returns Standing Bear's tomahawk

By The Associated PressJun 25, 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)

Lawsuit says Tara Sweeney should advance in Alaska race

By The Associated PressJun 24, 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)

Vatican releases pope's Canada itinerary

By The Associated PressJun 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)

Lummi tribe awarded $595,000 for salmon pen collapse

By The Associated PressJun 23, 2022

Man accused of illegal dig at Native site

By The Associated PressJun 22, 2022

During Election 2014, turnout surged in Alaska Native villages, including Togiak, shown here, in the Bristol Bay region. This was a result of various improvements in voting access, including increased language assistance for speakers of Alaska Native languages. Now, a judge has ordered that the assistance be made permanent.

Native candidate may be missing from Alaska US House ballot

By The Associated PressJun 22, 2022

A tombstone of an unknown student that attended the Carlisle Indian Industrial School sits on the grounds of the present-day U.S. Army War College. The proposed Truth and Healing Commission would be charged with investigating unmarked grave sites and other abuses of the Indian boarding school system. (File photo by Addison Kliewer/Gaylord News)

Army: Disinterred remains do not match Native boy

By The Associated PressJun 21, 2022

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

Bears Ears Commission reestablished

By The Associated PressJun 21, 2022

Indigenous leader Kamuu Wapichana is backdropped by a banner that show images of missing freelance British journalist Dom Phillips, left, and Indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, during a protest asking authorities to expand the search efforts for the two men, in front of the Ministry of Justice in Brasilia, Brazil, Tuesday, June 14, 2022. The search for Pereira and Phillips, who disappeared in a remote area of Brazil’s Amazon continued following the discovery of a backpack, laptop and other personal belongings submerged in a river. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Brazil Indigenous expert was 'bigger target' in recent years

By The Associated PressJun 20, 2022

Chief Vincent Mann of the Turtle Clan of the Ramapough Lenape Nation speaks at a news conference in Ringwood, N.J., on Thursday, June 16, 2022, at which New Jersey officials announced litigation against Ford Motor Company, alleging the company contaminated tribal land by dumping paint sludge and other pollutants into a former iron mine. (Screenshot from news conference)

New Jersey sues Ford over mining that tainted tribal land

By The Associated PressJun 20, 2022

Storm clouds from Tropical Storm Nicholas are seen behind homes of the vanishing Native American community of Isle de Jean Charles, La., which were destroyed by Hurricane Ida, Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) CLIMATE CHANGE

Native people continue to rebuild from Ida

By The Associated PressJun 18, 2022

Mary Peltola, a Democrat seeking the sole U.S. House seat in Alaska, speaks during a forum for candidates, Thursday, May 12, 2022, in Anchorage, Alaska.Voters are whittling down the list of 48 candidates running for Alaska's only U.S. House seat, with the top four vote-getters in a special primary on Saturday, June 11, advancing to an August special election. (AP Photo/Mark Thiessen, File)

Yup'ik candidate advances to Alaska's US House election

By The Associated PressJun 17, 2022

First Peoples Mountain is a 10,551-foot peak within Yellowstone National Park east of Yellowstone Lake in the southeastern portion of the park.

Yellowstone mountain renamed First Peoples Mountain

By The Associated PressJun 17, 2022

British journalist Dom Phillips, right, and a Yanomami Indigenous man walk in Maloca Papiu village, Roraima state, Brazil, Nov. 2019. Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira have been reported missing in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon region, a local Indigenous association said Monday, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Joao Laet)

Police: Fisherman confesses to killing Indigenous expert

By The Associated PressJun 16, 2022

Zahn McClarnon (Photo by Richard Shotwell/Invision/AP)

Navajo mystery series ‘Dark Winds’ seeks true storytelling

By The Associated PressJun 14, 2022

FILE - In this Nov. 5, 2020, file photo the Supreme Court is seen in Washington. With abortion and guns already on the agenda, the conservative-dominated Supreme Court is considering adding a third blockbuster issue _ whether to ban consideration of race in college admissions. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Supreme Court rules against Navajo Nation citizen

By The Associated PressJun 13, 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)

Alaska Native candidates in running for US House special primary

By The Associated PressJun 13, 2022

Former Nooksack citizens, shown here on Jan. 26, 2022, are facing possible eviction from their homes in a tribal dispute that has drawn the attention of the United Nations. The UN sent a letter Feb. 3, 2022, asking the U.S. to intervene to halt the evictions but the U.S. government declined to step in. (Photo courtesy of Galanda Broadman)

Washington high court pauses tribe's evictions for ousted citizens

By The Associated PressJun 10, 2022

Fur seals. St. Paul, Pribilof Islands, Alaska. (Photographer: Allen Shimada, National Oceanic and Atmoshpheric Administration, National Marine Fisheries Service, Office of Science and Technology/AMD, Courtesy of Creative Commons).

Alaska tribe nominates Pribilof Islands area for sanctuary

By The Associated PressJun 9, 2022

Indigenous representatives from Brazil in the metro after a protest outside Paris courthouse, in Paris, Thursday, June 9, 2022. Environmental groups and representatives of Brazil's Indigenous community are protesting Thursday outside the main Paris courthouse, urging a quick trial for a French supermarket chain accused of selling beef linked to deforestation and land grabs in the Amazon rainforest. (AP Photo/Thibault Camus)

Indigenous activists decry retailer over Amazon deforestation

By The Associated PressJun 9, 2022

Luakam Anambe, of Brazil’s Anambé indigenous group, who is at the helm of a small, burgeoning business selling handmade indigenous dolls poses for a photo in her sewing workshop at her home in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Tuesday, May 24, 2022. Part of the money she makes from her dolls goes toward a social project Luakam has been putting together in Para state, to help women in need. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo)

A doll brings pride, identity for Indigenous woman

By The Associated PressJun 8, 2022

Pro lacrosse season begins as sport's leaders eye Olympics. Premier Lacrosse League star Lyle Thompson signs autographs after a scrimmage on May 31, 2022 at Tom & Mary Casey Stadium in Albany, N.Y.. World Lacrosse, the international governing body of the sport, is making a proposal to have the Native American sport included in the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. Thompson, 29, is from the Onondaga Nation outside Syracuse, N.Y., and starred in college for the Albany Great Danes, setting the national career scoring record and twice winning the Tewaaraton Award given annually to the best male and female college players. Playing in the Olympics would fulfill a dream. (AP Photo/John Kekis)

Pro lacrosse season begins as leaders eye Olympics

By The Associated PressJun 8, 2022

Pictured: Andrés Manuel Lopez Obrador, President of Mexico.

In blow to Biden, Mexico president to skip Americas Summit

By The Associated PressJun 8, 2022

Justin Grant watches water flow from his agricultural well, Saturday, July 24, 2021, in Klamath Falls, Ore. Dozens of domestic wells have gone dry in an area near the Oregon-California border where the American West's worsening drought has taken a particularly dramatic toll. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)

Indigenous farmer seeks solutions in drought

By The Associated PressJun 7, 2022

Exhibit: Bosque Redondo: A Place of Suffering…A Place of Survival. (Photo courtesy of Historical Research Associates, Inc Facebook)

New exhibit shows Navajo Nation's suffering, resiliency

By The Associated PressJun 7, 2022

British journalist Dom Phillips, right, and a Yanomami Indigenous man walk in Maloca Papiu village, Roraima state, Brazil, Nov. 2019. Phillips and Indigenous affairs expert Bruno Araujo Pereira have been reported missing in a remote part of Brazil's Amazon region, a local Indigenous association said Monday, June 6, 2022. (AP Photo/Joao Laet)

Search narrows, pressure mounts in Amazon disappearance

By The Associated PressJun 10, 2022

Adrian Lopez Sr., 35, was identified as the White Mountain Apache Police officer shot and killed Thursday, June 3, 2022 in the town of Whiteriver on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation. This photo is from January, 2022. (Photo courtesy of White Mountain Apache police Facebook page.)

Tribal officer killed, 1 wounded in shootings

By The Associated PressJun 3, 2022

The Colville Tribes accepts the Wagner Ranch for conservation. (Photo courtesy of Methow Conservancy)

Land in Washington returned to Colville Tribes

By The Associated PressJun 2, 2022

Foot Bridge on Cape Cod in Massachusetts. (Photo courtesy of U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)

Seaside towns offer free beach passes to Native people

By The Associated PressJun 2, 2022

Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Pope Francis has welcomed First Nations delegations to the Vatican. They are seeking an apology for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's notorious residential schools for Indigenous children. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Indigenous leaders want pope to visit more locations

By The Associated PressJun 1, 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)

On remote US territories, abortion hurdles mount without Roe

By The Associated PressJun 1, 2022

Amryn Tom reacts after graduating from Cedar City High School on Wednesday, May 25, 2022, in Cedar City, Utah. Tom is wearing an eagle feather given to her by her mother and a cap that a family friend beaded. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

Native students exercise right to wear regalia at graduation

By The Associated PressJun 1, 2022

Tenetehara Indigenous man Regis Tufo Moreira Tembe patrols with the Ka’Azar, or Forest Owners, on the Alto Rio Guama reserve in Para state, near the city of Paragominas, Brazil, Tuesday, Sept. 8, 2020. Three Tenetehara Indigenous villages patrol to guard against illegal logging, gold mining, ranching, and farming on their lands, as increasing encroachment and lax government enforcement during COVID-19 have forced the tribe to take matters into their own hands. (AP Photo/Eraldo Peres)

Mining companies back away from Brazil’s Indigenous areas

By The Associated PressMay 31, 2022

Workers with the Pebble Mine project test drill in the Bristol Bay region of Alaska near the village of Iliamna, Alaska, in 2007. The battle over a copper and gold mine near one of the world's premiere salmon fisheries is headed to the ballot in a vote next week that has turned a normally sleepy local election into a national environmental debate. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)

EPA proposes restrictions in fight over Alaska mine

By The Associated PressMay 29, 2022

FILE- New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signs one of a suite of education bills that will increase teacher salaries and benefits on Tuesday, March 1, 2022, in Santa Fe, N.M. On Thursday, March 3, 2022, Grisham signed a bill, sponsored by state Rep. Derrick Lente, of the Sandia Pueblo, that will set a minimum salary for teachers certified to teach eight tribal languages taught in public schools and spoken by members of the state's 23 tribes and pueblos. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio, File)

New Mexico advocates review plan aimed at education deficits

By The Associated PressMay 24, 2022

Minnesota River. (Photo courtesy of USFWS Midwest Region)

8,000-year-old skull goes home to Native descendants

By The Associated PressMay 23, 2022

Vaughn Tootsie helps the Native American community of Picuris Pueblo, N.M., screen vehicles as they enter and exit tribal property on Thursday, April 23, 2020. Small Native American pueblo tribes across New Mexico are embracing extraordinary social distancing measures that include guarded roadblocks and universal testing for the coronavirus in efforts to insulate themselves from a contagion with frightening echoes of the past. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

2 tribes closer to recreational cannabis sales

By The Associated PressMay 20, 2022

From the chapter, "Stories We Love." An eagle feather? When representation of a Native Nation gets in the way of graduation. (Illustration by Tomás Karmelo Amaya, Indian Country Today)

Indigenous student told to remove feather at graduation

By The Associated PressMay 20, 2022

Montana Legislature

Montana voters must be registered day before primary

By The Associated PressMay 18, 2022

Rep. Sharice Davids, D-Kan., addresses people attending a sign unveiling ceremony for the Quindaro Townsite National Commemorative Site Tuesday, April, 23, 2019, in Kansas City, Kan. The site contains the ruins of the town of Quindaro, which was founded in the 1850s as a free state port of entry and a stop on the underground railroad for slaves to escape from Missouri located across the Missouri River from the town. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Kansas high court upholds Republican congressional map

By The Associated PressMay 18, 2022

The Oglala Sioux Tribe has been operating under a shelter at home ordinance since March 2020. (Photo by Mary Annette Pember)

Dams on tribal land to get repairs

By The Associated PressMay 18, 2022

Pictured: Justice Raquel Montoya-Lewis, an enrolled member of the Pueblo of Isleta Tribe of New Mexico, is running to retain her seat on the Washington Supreme Court.

Indigenous justice in Washington state takes leave

By The Associated PressMay 16, 2022

The Northwest Coast Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. (Photo courtesy of the museum's social media page)

Renovated NYC museum showcases Indigenous perspectives

By The Associated PressMay 16, 2022

Clarence Dixon, Navajo, was convicted and sentenced to death for the 1977 killing of Deana Bowdoin, a 21-year-old Arizona State University student. (Photo by Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry)

Experts: Executioners took too long to insert IV

By The Associated PressMay 16, 2022

In this Nov. 20, 2018 photo, a customer watches video screens at a sportsbook in Atlantic City, N.J. On Thursday, March 11, 2021, BetMGM and Buffalo Wild Wings launched a program where special sports betting products are offered to customers at one of the chain's restaurants in New Jersey, Colorado, Indiana, Iowa, Tennessee and West Virginia. (AP Photo/Wayne Parry)

Lawmakers remain at odds over sports betting bill

By The Associated PressMay 16, 2022

Duwamish Tribal Council Chairwoman Cecile Hansen leading a 2021 retreat with council members. (Photo courtesy of Duwamish website)

Tribe sues again for federal recognition

By The Associated PressMay 13, 2022

Members of the Assembly of First Nations perform in St. Peter's Square at the Vatican, Thursday, March 31, 2022. Pope Francis has welcomed First Nations delegations to the Vatican. They are seeking an apology for the Catholic Church's role in running Canada's notorious residential schools for Indigenous children. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino)

Pope to visit Canada to apologize for Indigenous abuses

By The Associated PressMay 13, 2022

The bronze statue of Osage prima ballerina Marjorie Tallchief was stolen from the Tulsa Historical Society. (Courtesy Photo/Tulsa Historical Society Facebook)

Osage prima ballerina statue to be restored

By The Associated PressMay 12, 2022

Korene Atene, a certified nursing assistant with the Monument Valley Health Center, gets information from people lined up to get tested for COVID-19 outside of the center in Oljato-Monument Valley, San Juan County, on Thursday, April 16, 2020. The Navajo Nation has one of the highest per capita COVID-19 infection rates in the country. (Photo by Kristin Murphy, Deseret News via AP)

Tribes credited with elevating vaccinations in rural Arizona

By The Associated PressMay 10, 2022

Kaialiʻi “Kai” Kahele, a Democrat and Hawaii state senator, is a candidate for Hawaii’s 2nd Congressional District. (Photo courtesy of Kai Kahele campaign website)

Kai Kahele announces bid for Hawaii governor

By The Associated PressMay 10, 2022

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