Chief Manuelito. The Navajo Nation is requesting the chief be honored with a highway designation in New Mexico.
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Arizona Congressman Tom O’Halleran honors Navajo Code Talker Yodell Billah on the House floor. Billah passed away this month. (Screenshot)
Tribal marijuana consultant acquitted of charges in South Dakota
Navajo Code Talker Yodell Billah honored on the U.S. House Floor
Gaming website created by Oklahoma tribe faces more setbacks
Democrats say Congress controls national monuments not Trump
Native activist Richard Oakes was featured this week on Google’s homepage. (Screenshot)
Tribal leaders from Northwest states object to President Trump’s budget
Montana bill allows Native Americans to wear traditional regalia at graduation
Arizona tribe first to have jury trial conviction of non-Indian under VAWA
Native American activist featured as doodle this week on Google homepage
Tribal representatives, art dealers and attorneys discuss tribal cultural items at a symposium in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Tribes are asking dealers to help stop the sale of sacred items. (Photo-Antonia Gonzales)
Tribal representatives and art dealers discuss ways to stop the sale of cultural items
Haskell student becomes first Alaska Native ambassador at the Kansas tribal college
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Improving timely response to child abduction
A year after the abduction and death of a girl on the Navajo Nation, Congressional leaders are taking steps to ensure funding for the AMBER Alert system for tribal communities. Members of the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs heard comments from tribal leaders, law enforcement officials and others.
House Republicans: health care plan would leave Indian Health Service unscathed
Congressional Republicans maintain that the American Health Care Act (AHCA), which narrowly passed Thursday in the U.S. House of Representatives, will not significantly affect those in the Indian health system.
Republican U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin of Oklahoma, a member of the Cherokee Nation, says the bill entirely preserves the Indian Health Care Improvement Act, a decades-old law that commits federal funding to tribal health care across the country.
“This doesn’t make any change to Indian Health Services. In fact, the whole section on IHS was left completely alone,” said Rep. Mullin.
Legal battles continue, even as Whiteclay, Neb. liquor stores close doors
The Nebraska Supreme Court says it will hear an appeal by four Whiteclay liquor stores forced to close by the state’s Liquor Control Commission. The Omaha World Herald reports the decision means the ultimate ruling over the closures will come sooner rather than later. It’s the latest in a back-and-forth legal battle playing out even as the stores in the tiny town on the edge of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation were forced to clear their shelves over the weekend.
