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Why Rep. Deb Haaland's appointment as Secretary of the Interior Department is so important 4 Geechie Mar 2021 Mar 2021 8 2694
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came across this video, these guys are pretty cool! 3 yuiyoshida Feb 2021 Feb 2021 2 1641
My best friend's son has just published his new book if any of you are interested: 5 catbyte Jan 2021 Jan 2021 19 3431
Petition to urge President-Elect Biden to name Rep. Deb Haaland first Native Interior Secretary 2 catbyte Nov 2020 Jan 2021 2 2254
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Board on Geographic Names Approves "Arikara Creek" for Often Dry Run Near Pierre 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2020 Dec 2020 1 1487
Chief Shingwauk, 1773, Sault St Marie, Canada 3 Beringia Nov 2020 Nov 2020 5 3812
Native Cinema Showcase: Streaming Best Native Films Nov. 18 -- 27, 2020 3 douglas9 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 5 2105
Celebration dance (tweet) and some numbers 0 lunasun Nov 2020 Nov 2020 3 1453
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White House COVID-19 exposed staff met with Navajo Council, dedicated Navajo school where there was 3 douglas9 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 2 1520
Lpez: The Four C's Americans (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, & Creek) 2 douglas9 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 6 1507
Texas Leads Fight To End Protections For Native American Children 3 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 7 1458
Bison Return To Lakota Reservation In South Dakota For The First Time Since 1870s 1 catbyte Oct 2020 Oct 2020 16 1454
Navajo elderly turned away in cold, waiting for hardship applications 5 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 10 1512
Have read of the Navajo 'Healing Way'. Is it possible that one could be done for US re Trump? 10 bobbieinok Jul 2020 Oct 2020 7 2814
Coronavirus vaccine trials halted as more volunteers become ill, Lummi Nation withdraws from AstraZe 3 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 9 1978
Happy Indigenous People's Day from Minneapolis! 1 geardaddy Oct 2020 Oct 2020 5 1373
Native American Tribe Gets Early Access to SpaceX's Starlink and Says It's Fast 0 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 6 1556
A Native Nation's Impossible Fight to Stop Trump's Wall From Dividing Its Land 0 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 6 1232
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U.S. EPA seizes control of Oklahoma Indian lands for hazardous dumping and fracking 4 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 19 1489
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EPA Grants Oklahoma Control Over Tribal Lands 9 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 6 1732
Lpez: American Diaspora (The Campaign to Drive Native Americans into Reservations) 0 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 3 1007
The Federal Government Promised Native American Students Computers and Internet. Many Are Still Wait 3 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 2 1495
Tribes see ballot collection as a lifeline in Indian Country 0 Eugene Sep 2020 Sep 2020 2 1175
Members of Congress, Tribes, State Governments call to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline 0 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 5 1105
Stand off with Border Patrol, National Park Service ends in scuffle with Indigenous-led demonstrator 0 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 0 1202
U.S. House Passes Savanna's Act, Moves to be Signed by President 0 sl8 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 13 1332
Navajo President blocks Dine' College professor from questioning COVID-19 vaccine risks 2 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 2 1457
Sioux Tribes Sue South Dakota Over Failure to Provide Voter Registration 8 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 42 2909
Navajos already used in controversial coronavirus plasma transfusions, next vaccine experiments, the 2 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 3 1269
Navajos to be used in coronavirus vaccine experiments by Johns Hopkins and drug company 3 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 3 1638
Standing Rock Court Victory: Excessive force lawsuit against Morton County moves forward 1 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 3 1317
Petition! Drop the charges against NDN Collective President & CEO Nick Tilsen 1 hermetic Sep 2020 Sep 2020 3 1225
Indigenous Online Film Festival: Watch Now! 5 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 6 1506
Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte 'The Most Bombed Nation on Earth' 12 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 56 3522
Kansas City Chiefs ban fans from wearing headdresses and face paint 0 Eugene Aug 2020 Aug 2020 3 1294
Native Americans delivering innovative relief with CARES Act funds 0 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 1 1258
Federal agency to reopen 53 Native American schools despite coronavirus fears 1 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 4 1360
The Federal Government Gives Native Students an Inadequate Education, and Gets Away With It 0 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 6 1250
Navajos desperate for food and water.Navajo Council wants $24 million of virus relief funds casino 2 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 20 1654
How Native Tribes Started Winning at the Supreme Court 2 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 11 1548
How Our Indian Country Flattened the Curve 1 douglas9 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 9 1406
Why Central Michigan 'Chippewas' nickname is OK with local tribe, NCAA 2 safeinOhio Jul 2020 Jul 2020 5 1908
Coronavirus death rate remains high on the Navajo Nation 2 douglas9 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 3 1488
Pandemic Complicates Tribes' Quest For Data Sovereignty 0 TexasTowelie Jul 2020 Jul 2020 0 1089
Why Tribes Should Have the Power to Enforce Strict Coronavirus Policies 1 douglas9 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 6 1345
Engraved medal given to Chief Kesis, a Kickapoo Indian chief of east central Illinois in 1792 2 Beringia Jul 2020 Jul 2020 7 2785
Can anyone recommend a good book on the Ojibwe Nation? My new granddaughter has a 3 Tech Jul 2020 Jul 2020 1 1972
The US Government Has Always Undercounted Native Americans. But COVID Could Make the 2020 Census a D 3 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 8 1708
'Mount Rushmore: Genocide Carved in Stone' by American Indian Genocide Museum 0 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 5 1458

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i have received the most extraordinary gift. 18 mopinko Jun 2020 Jun 2020 28 2531
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State Investigating Hospital With Coronavirus Policy That Profiled Pregnant... 1 Backseat Driver Jun 2020 Jun 2020 7 2075
U.S. suppressing facts of coronavirus spread in Border Patrol, grocery stores, prisons and nursing h 2 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 7 1570
Covid-19 Stalks Large Families in Rural America 1 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 10 1825
The Medicine Clothes that Look at the People, by Johnny Moses, avail Amazon Aug 2020 0 Beringia Jun 2020 Jun 2020 2 1557
Native American Tribes' Pandemic Response Is Hamstrung by Many Inequities 1 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 3 1414
Cherokee Nation announces $332 million spending package for COVID-19 aid 0 TexasTowelie May 2020 May 2020 3 1271
Irish Solidarity for Indigenous COVID-19 Relief Continues as U2 Drummer Donates $100,000 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 6 1157
Navajo medical masks were part of White House contracting scam and may not work 2 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 6 1785
Report: 'Grossly inaccurate' data used to divvy up relief funds for tribes 2 Backseat Driver May 2020 May 2020 3 1780
Native Tribe Could Lose Its Land Under New Trump Administration Guidelines 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 8 1586
Navajo Nation residents to be under strictest lockdown yet 4 Eugene May 2020 May 2020 5 1651
Coronavirus has been devastating to the Navajo Nation, and help for a complex fight has been slow 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 4 1347
The Coronavirus Makes Trump's Cruelty Toward Indian Country Even More Deadly 1 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 5 1447
US Native tribes and Ireland's 170-year-old connection is renewed in the pandemic 3 TexasTowelie May 2020 May 2020 4 1493
"Is the Supreme Court Scared of Tribal Sovereignty?" 0 Mike__M May 2020 May 2020 8 1443
Sharing the Love: Our readers respond with food and water for Navajo family 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 10 1289
Doctors Without Borders dispatches team to the Navajo Nation 2 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 23 1932
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