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Leech Lake Legacy Director Jenny Fitzer, right, takes notes as vet tech Kris Stresemann of Minneapolis calms 17-year-old Lilly at the Legacy's clinic in Cass Lake, Minn., Sunday, Nov. 21, 2021. Lilly's owner regularly brings her in to have a cyst on her tail drained, for wellness checks and for nail trimming. For a decade, the nonprofit has been bringing veterinary services and taking away surrendered animals on the Leech Lake Reservation. (AP Photo/Jack Rendulich)
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Reviving Ojibwe traditions, one pet at a time

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In this July 18, 2002 file photo, Eugene Futato, senior archeologist and curator of archaeological collections at the Office of Archaeological Services, pulls out a drawer of Mississippian Indian ceramic vessels from Moundville, in Moundville, Ala. Leaders of several American Indian tribes are asking the University of Alabama to return nearly 6,000 human remains and artifacts from the school's archaeological park and museum. (Mike Kittrell/Mobile Register via AP)
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Group finds site linked to tribes seeking return of remains

Nov 24, 2021
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Briefs: Travelers emerge in time for Thanksgiving

Nov 24, 2021
The guitar-shaped hotel is seen at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino on Thursday, Oct. 24, 2019, in Hollywood, Florida. The Guitar Hotel's grand opening is on the tribe's land in Hollywood. It's the latest step in the Seminole Hard Rock empire, which includes naming rights on the Miami-area stadium where the 2020 Super Bowl will be played. (AP Photo/Brynn Anderson)
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Judge blocks Seminole, Florida online sports betting deal

Nov 23, 2021
In this July 18, 2002 file photo, Eugene Futato, senior archeologist and curator of archaeological collections at the Office of Archaeological Services, pulls out a drawer of Mississippian Indian ceramic vessels from Moundville, in Moundville, Ala. Leaders of several American Indian tribes are asking the University of Alabama to return nearly 6,000 human remains and artifacts from the school's archaeological park and museum. (Mike Kittrell/Mobile Register via AP)
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Tribes seek return of remains, artifacts

Nov 23, 2021
Police move up the Morice West Service Rd Thursday, Nov. 18, 2021. (Photo by Lee Wilson/APTN)
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Journalists released after arrest at pipeline dispute

Nov 23, 2021
In this Sept. 29, 2021, photo provided by John Pettit, Charles Farden, right, stands in handcuffs as law enforcement officers with the Bureau of Indian Affairs inspect a cannabis garden at Picuris Pueblo, N.M. Bureau of Indian Affairs officers seized about nine plants at Picuris Pueblo while handcuffing registered medical marijuana patient Farden. The raid casts a cloud over plans by Picuris Pueblo tribal authorities to open a cannabis business as New Mexico legalizes sales of recreational marijuana. (John Pettit via AP)
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Cannabis bust on Indigenous land highlights legal divide

Nov 23, 2021
In this photo taken Feb. 1, 2018, Alcatraz Island is seen at sunrise on San Francisco Bay in this view from Sausalito, Calif. In the background is the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The week of Nov. 18, 2019, marks 50 years since the beginning of a months-long Native American occupation at Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. The demonstration by dozens of tribal members had lasting effects for tribes, raising awareness of life on and off reservations, galvanizing activists and spurring a shift in federal policy toward self-determination. (AP Photo/Eric Risberg)
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Deb Haaland highlights Indigenous progress

Nov 22, 2021
Joseph Medicine Crow attends USC’s honorary degree ceremony in 2003. (Photo by Barry Levine via USC)
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College to name building for Joe Medicine Crow

Nov 19, 2021
Portrait of Charles F. "Chuck" Sams III. (Photo by Ben Lonergan/East Oregonian)
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First Native to head the National Park Service

Nov 19, 2021
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Briefs: Ex-Interpol wife takes on China government

Nov 18, 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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Judge won't reconsider tribes' bid to block mine

Nov 17, 2021
The bison herd on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon has grown too large and is damaging the park’s environment, which is why state and federal wildlife officials are planning a limited hunt as one way to manage the herd (File photo by Kianna Gardner/Cronkite News)
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Program to kill Grand Canyon bison nets animals, criticism

Nov 17, 2021
Water protectors in Mackinaw City, Michigan, protest Enbridge's Line 5 on May 13, 2021. (Photo courtesy of Whitney Gravelle)
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Judge keeps oil pipeline case in federal court

Nov 17, 2021
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New Mexico education plan gets feedback on race, economics

Nov 16, 2021
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Briefs: China hails talks, after year of growing strain

Nov 16, 2021
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Fight over US wolf protections goes before judge

Nov 15, 2021
In this Feb. 17, 2010, file photo, the snowcapped Cabinet Mountains tower over the lush Kootenai River Valley outside of Libby, Mont. Montana environmental regulators want to dismiss a legal case that sought to block the president of an Idaho-based mining company from being involved in two silver and copper mines near and beneath the Cabinet Mountains Wilderness. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File)
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Tribes, groups sue to enforce mining law

Nov 15, 2021
FILE - Wolf Ramerez of Houston, Texas, center, joins others with the Carrizo Comecrudo Tribe of Texas in holding up his fists as Indigenous and environmental activists protest in front of the White House in Washington, Oct. 11, 2021. President Joe Biden will announce steps Monday, Nov. 15, to improve public safety and justice for Native Americans during the first tribal nations summit since 2016, the White House said. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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Joe Biden to protect Native site, boost safety

Nov 15, 2021
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South Dakota passes new, shaken-up legislative map

Nov 12, 2021
The midnight sun shines across sea ice along the Northwest Passage in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago, Sunday, July 23, 2017. When covered with snow and ice, the Arctic reflects sunlight and heat. But that blanket is dwindling. And as more sea ice melts in the summer, “you’re revealing really dark ocean surfaces, just like a black T-shirt,” says ice scientist Twila Moon. Like dark clothing, the open patches of sea soak up heat from the sun more readily. (AP Photo/David Goldman, File)
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Ice on the edge of survival

Nov 11, 2021
FILE - In this Friday, May 16, 2008, file photo, author Louise Erdrich reflects on growing up in North Dakota and her new book "The Plague of Doves" at her store BirchBark Books in Minneapolis. Excerpts from new books by Erdrich and Amy Tan can be read for free in a pair of new digital compilations. The industry newsletter Publishers Lunch announced Tuesday, May 16, 2017, that 53 works coming out this fall and winter will be highlighted in “Buzz Books 2017: Fall/Winter” and “Buzz Books 2017: Young Adult Fall/Winter.” (AP Photo/Dawn Villella, File)
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A ghost haunts Native bookstore in Louise Erdrich’s latest

Nov 11, 2021
North Dakota Capitol. (Photo by Richie Diesterheft, Creative Commons)
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North Dakota Legislature approves new redistricting map

Nov 10, 2021
Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez signs the Air is Life Act. (Courtesy photo)
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Navajo Nation President signs ban on indoor smoking

Nov 9, 2021
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Briefs: Astroworld deaths spur calls for independent review

Nov 9, 2021
Capitol in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)
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Infrastructure bill includes investment in tribal nations

Nov 8, 2021
Plane in the air, August 2021. (Photo by Indian Country Today)
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How US rules on international travel are changing

Nov 8, 2021
A student carries a math book delivered by school bus driver Kelly Maestas along his rural route outside Cuba, N.M., Oct. 19, 2020. The switch to remote learning in rural New Mexico has left some students profoundly isolated — cut off from others and the grid by sheer distance. The school system is sending school buses to students' far-flung homes to bring them assignments, meals and a little human contact. (AP Photo/Cedar Attanasio)
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Latest New Mexico K-12 curriculum controversy

Nov 8, 2021
Family members mourn the passing of Manuela Chavez, who died from symptoms related to the new coronavirus at the age of 88, as a government team prepares to remove her body from inside her home, in the Shipibo Indigenous community of Pucallpa, in Peru's Ucayali region, Monday, Aug. 31, 2020. While the lucky are cured with ancestral ailments, the less fortunate often die at home. A government team travels from one spartan, thatch-roofed home to the next, removing the dead from their homes where they took their last breaths. (AP Photo/Rodrigo Abd)
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In Peru, rumors feed vaccine reluctance among Indigenous

Nov 6, 2021
Vehicles stop at a drive-thru U.S. Census participation campaign organized by Montana Native Vote on the Crow Indian Reservation in Lodge Grass, Mont. on Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. There have always been geographic and cultural challenges to Census taking on Native lands, but the pandemic dealt a devastating setback. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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Montana commission finalizes congressional district lines

Nov 5, 2021
In this photo provided by Manuelito "Manny" Wheeler of the Navajo Nation Museum, Jennifer Jackson-Wheeler, from left, Joe H. Kee, and Hawk Sequra work on the Navajo dubbing of the iconic Western film, "A Fistful of Dollars," at Native Stars Studio in Gallup, N.M., Monday, Oct. 25, 2019. The film is the third major flick available in the Navajo language. It will be screened this month on or near the Navajo Nation that extends into Arizona, New Mexico and Utah. (Manuelito "Manny" Wheeler/Navajo Nation Museum via AP)
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Iconic Clint Eastwood Western dubbed in Navajo

Nov 5, 2021
University of California Hastings College of the Law. (Courtesy photo)
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Law school seeks to remove genocidal founder's name

Nov 3, 2021
Tuntiak Katan, Indigenous Organisations of the Amazon River Basin (COICA), Global Alliance of Territorial Communites (GATC) speaking at the Forest event at the SEC, Glasgow. 02/11/2021. Photograph: Karwai Tang/ UK Government
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Leaders vow to protect forests, plug methane leaks

Nov 2, 2021
Elizabeth Azzuz stands in prayer with a handmade torch of dried wormwood branches before leading a cultural training burn on the Yurok reservation in Weitchpec, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 7, 2021. Azzuz, who is Yurok, along with other native tribes in the U.S. West are making progress toward restoring their ancient practice of treating lands with fire, an act that could have meant jail a century ago. But state and federal agencies that long banned "cultural burns" are coming to terms with them and even collaborating as the wildfire crisis worsens. (AP Photo/David Goldman)
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For tribes, 'good fire' a key to restoring nature and people

Nov 1, 2021
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Braves bring chop to World Series

Oct 28, 2021
Shoes sit on the eternal flame on Parliament Hill in Ottawa, Canada, on Monday May 31, 2021, after the remains of 215 children were found at the site of a former Indian residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia. Canada has now declared Sept. 30 a Day of Truth and Reconciliation, a national holiday, to remember those who suffered at the schools. The United States holds a Remembrance Day as well on Sept. 30.  (Adrian Wyld/The Canadian Press via AP)
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Pope OKs Canada trip, help healing with Indigenous

Oct 28, 2021
FILE - In this Aug. 26, 2020 file photo, activist Lauri Dawn Kindness, right, speaks at the Crow Indian Reservation, in Lodge Grass, Mont. Native Americans make up less than 2% of the U.S. population and often are listed in datasets as "other" or denoted with an asterisk. Even when surveyed, the results can be considered statistically insignificant because the sample size isn't large enough or the margin of error is too great to accurately reflect the population. The National Congress of American Indians has said there's a critical need for data that is accurate, meaningful, and timely within tribal communities. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, File)
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Montana redistricting commission advances two map proposals

Oct 26, 2021
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South Dakota officials at odds over redistricting maps

Oct 25, 2021
Central High School in Philadelphia. (Photo courtesy of Central's website)
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School works to return Native remains

Oct 25, 2021
Cindy Kiro is New Zealand’s new governor-general. (Photo courtesy of Governor-General of New Zealand Facebook)
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First Indigenous woman appointed New Zealand governor-general

Oct 24, 2021
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

Oct 23, 2021
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

Oct 22, 2021
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