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Plan would give schools federal money to buy campus guns

Cronkite News

Critics call reported school gun plan ‘absurd,’ misuse of federal funds

Imani Stephens and Alexis Egeland

Cronkite News

WASHINGTON – A reported plan to let local schools use federal funds to buy guns and gun training sparked an immediate backlash from Arizona…

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Indian Country headlines for Thursday

News we're watching: DAPL oil to flow, Native candidates prevail in primaries, mental health presents challenges during COVID-19, protecting Lakota elders to preserve language, and more

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Perspective: Writer checks in on elders, finds hunger, neglect

A Navajo reporter recently visited several elderly people on the reservation and found them struggling through the pandemic. * This story was originally published by Searchlight New Mexico

S.R. Clahchischiligi

The pandemic is creating a mental health crisis

Native people use traditions and resilience to cope with increased mental health challenges

Mary Annette Pember

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Diné woman will be Kansas’ youngest sitting legislator

Updated: Democrat Christina Haswood is one of more than a dozen Native candidates who prevailed in Tuesday’s primaries. #NativeVote20

Aliyah Chavez

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Court: Dakota Access pipeline can keep running during review

Standing Rock Tribe Chairman Mike Faith says the tribe remains committed to its fight and looks forward to showing why the pipeline is 'too dangerous to operate'

The Associated Press

Reservation libraries provide internet lifeline

American Library Association virtual tour highlights need for broadband among tribal communities and central role libraries play in providing high-speed internet in underserved areas

Kolby KickingWoman

Indian Country headlines for Wednesday

News we’re talking about: President’s son opposes Alaska mine; millions of evictions expected; missing and murdered Indigenous women office opens in Rapid City, South Dakota; and more

Indian Country Today

Food is 'a living, breathing being'

Food insecurity amid COVID-19 prompts Native Americans to return to their roots

Cronkite News

Pebble Mine in Alaska: Key events

For decades, there has been controversy and heated debate surrounding the mine’s development

Meghan Sullivan

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Feds open South Dakota office for MMIW cases

The office will be one of seven created by President Donald Trump as part of the Operation Lady Justice Task Force

The Associated Press

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Laurie Nape Wheeler