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Calls Grow in US to Make Indigenous Peoples’ Day a Federal Holiday

By Jon Queally | Common Dreams on Oct 13, 2020   Featured, National, National/World  

Calls Grow in US to Make Indigenous Peoples’ Day a Federal Holiday

  The national chorus of those calling to make Indigenous Peoples’ Day an official federal holiday to replace Columbus Day once and for all continued to grow Monday as Native Americans and their allies called out for a permanent and annual recognition for what has been taken from native people and communities as well as […]

American Indian Graduate Center unveils inaugural academic coaching program

By Lindsay Mahaney | American Indian Graduate Center on Aug 31, 2020   Events/Notices  

American Indian Graduate Center unveils inaugural academic coaching program

  The organization received a $300K grant to empower students in the Pacific Northwest Albuquerque, New Mexico – August 31, 2020 – American Indian Graduate Center is launching Rising Native Graduates, which will offer academic coaching opportunities specifically designed to support Native undergraduate students from Alaska, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington in their pursuit of […]

CDC data show disproportionate COVID-19 impact in American Indian/Alaska Native populations

By Ana Toro | CDC on Aug 19, 2020   Featured, Health, National, National/World  

CDC data show disproportionate COVID-19 impact in American Indian/Alaska Native populations

  CDC provides more than $200 million to address COVID-19 health disparities in Indian Country The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released a new study that specifically examines how COVID-19 is affecting American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) – one of the racial and ethnic minority groups at highest risk from the disease. […]

June 21st, 1890

By Alaska Native News on Jun 21, 2020   This Day in Alaskan History  

June 21st, 1890

Senators’ Legislation to Address Crisis of Missing, Murdered and Trafficked Native Women Advances in Senate

By Karina Borger | Office of Senator Murkowski on Nov 21, 2019   Featured, Politics, State  

Senators’ Legislation to Address Crisis of Missing, Murdered and Trafficked Native Women Advances in Senate

Murkowski and Cortez Masto Applaud Committee Passage of Not Invisible Act and Savanna’s Act  Video of Senator Murkowski’s remarks Washington, D.C. –Legislation addressing the crisis of missing, murdered, and trafficked Native women, passed out of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee with strong, bipartisan support—heading to the full Senate for consideration. The bills, Savanna’s Act […]

Murkowski Joins Committee in Addressing Tribal Workforces

By Karina Borger | Office of Senator Murkowski on Nov 9, 2019   Featured, State  

Murkowski Joins Committee in Addressing Tribal Workforces

‘Reducing Red Tape While Promoting Employment and Training Opportunities in Indian Country’  Senator Murkowski Delivers Opening Statement during Indian Affairs Hearing WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and her colleagues on the Senate Indian Affairs Committee this week held an oversight hearing focused on the PL 477 program, an innovative and comprehensive […]

Congressman Don Young’s Legislation to Provide Stable Native Health Care Approved by Committee

By Zack Brown | Office of Representative Young on Sep 26, 2019   Featured, Health, Politics, State  

Congressman Don Young’s Legislation to Provide Stable Native Health Care Approved by Committee

 Washington, D.C. – Wednesday, the Indian Health Service Advance Appropriations Act, legislation authored by Congressman Don Young (R-AK) to provide advance appropriations authority for the Indian Health Service (IHS) passed out of a House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indigenous Peoples hearing. The 2018-2019 partial government shutdown, which affected IHS, put the health and safety of tribal communities […]

Native American ‘Aunties’ Raise Funds to Feed Migrants

By Cecily Hilleary | VOA News on Sep 16, 2019   Featured, National, National/World  

Native American ‘Aunties’ Raise Funds to Feed Migrants

WASHINGTON – A group of Native American women from several tribes in Oklahoma have launched a nonprofit organization they’re calling the “Auntie Project: Native Women of Service.” Their goal is to help indigenous kids in need, beginning with child migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. The idea came to them in June, after hearing that the […]

Will US Congress Admit Delegate From Cherokee Nation?

By Cecily Hilleary | VOA News on Aug 27, 2019   Featured, National, National/World  

Will US Congress Admit Delegate From Cherokee Nation?

  Native American representation in Congress made great strides with the 2018 election of two American women to Congress.  Now, the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma says it will send its own delegate to Congress, a move that will test both the tribe’s sovereignty and the willingness of the U.S. to meet its treaty promises. Newly-elected […]

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