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Bill in Maine Legislature seeks to change decades old tribal settlement Top young entertainers on UNITY lineup to encourage Native youthCivil rights leader Elizabeth Peratrovich honored on U.S. Senate Floor

Native group funds South Dakota state position for MMIWP specialistResidential school survivors seek closure following discovery of gravesBill in Michigan Legislature encourages Indian boarding school lessons

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Members of the Native community in Fairbanks, Alaska held a vigil Friday in memory of Sophie Sergie outside the courtroom where a jury handed down guilty verdicts to the person who murdered the Alaska Native woman in 1993 on the campus of the University of Alaska Fairbanks. People gathered in front of a court house […]

A Fairbanks, Alaska jury returned guilty verdicts Thursday against Steven Downs for the sexual assault and murder of Alaska Native Sophie Sergie in 1993 at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, a case in which DNA collected for an ancestry website prompted the discovery of Downs’ connection, as KUAC’s Robyne reports. Navajo gaming and Seminole Hard Rock […]

South Dakota Senate lawmakers are passing a bill that creates and funds community-based schools centered on Native American cultural curriculum. A similar proposal passed the chamber two years ago but failed in the House. Supporters hope this year is different. South Dakota Public Broadcasting’s Lee Strubinger reports. A bill in the Alaska State Legislature to […]

Indigenous groups have condemned Canada’s trucker protests and symbols with one Native leader declaring that the so-called Freedom Convoy is the result of unabashed entitlement among privileged Canadians, as Dan Karpenchuk reports. Jared Nally, a former tribal student journalist, has claimed a victory in his first amendment lawsuit against the leadership of Haskell Indian Nations […]

Leonard Peltier supporters rallied for his release in six cities across the country on Monday, warning he is at risk after getting COVID-19 in prison, as Arielle Zionts of South Dakota Public Broadcasting reports from Rapid City. A city in Minnesota is planning to rename a park and may pay select Native people for their […]

What Native American priorities are in Oregon’s short legislative session? Prominent Native artist charge with crime against a child in Oklahoma Teacher who mocked Native Americans in California classroom is fired BIE to distribute more than one million masks to BIE funded schools