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Montana’s Native American graduation rate dropped slightly last year Officials plan to repatriate remains taken from San Nicholas Island to at least four California tribes A new committee named to manage the Bears Ears National Monument includes no one who supported the monument designation
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New Mexico is committing more than three million dollars to boost census participation, especially on tribal lands and rural areas. The Maine House of Representatives passed a bill banning the use of mascots or imagery related to Native Americans in schools
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A federal judge has dismissed key parts of a tribe’s water lawsuit Details remain scarce in the police shooting of a Lakota man during a Palm Sunday church service The U.S. Supreme Court hear argument today about adding a citizenship question to the U.S. Census, a proposal many Native leaders oppose
North Dakota’s Native youth played a significant role in parts of the state to help get out the Native vote last November.Youth-led groups like the Turtle Mountain Youth Council reached out through numerous Facebook Live events and other forms of social media leading up to Election Day to help get young voters engaged. College students and other young people were among those who were affected by the state’s voter ID law during the 2018 midterm election. Read the story here.
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Three Arizona tribes are suing over a proposed open-pit copper mine A Congressional field hearing will focus on Native voter suppression and disenfranchisement Young Native groups helped voter turnout in the 2018 midterm election in reaction to North Dakota’s voter ID law
The election of Ruth Buffalo to the North Dakota legislature is already paying dividends for Native issues in the state. Buffalo is the first female Native American Democrat elected to the state’s House of Representatives. Just months into her first term as state representative, North Dakota joined a handful of states allowing high school students to wear traditional regalia for graduation ceremonies. It’s the first bill introduced by Buffalo to be signed into law. Read the story here.
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This series is a joint project with National Native News, Prairie Public Broadcasting and Solutions Journalism Network looking into how a potential setback for tribal members in North Dakota turned into a win for tribes, voters and Native candidates. Faced with voting obstacles in North Dakota: ‘We’ll find a way’ Just weeks before the midterm […]
Native American Rights Fund attorney Jacqueline De Leon says even though the Supreme Court would not block North Dakota’s law before the last election, the disproportionate harm to many other Native voters, like Terry Yellow Fat, remains clear.“We still know that there are hundreds of people… potentially thousands of people out there that that still don’t have an I.D.,” De Leon said. “So you know there was a tremendous push this election but we don’t know–and are skeptical–that if the law remains on the books people will have I.D. going forward in the future.” Read the story here.
Just weeks before the midterm election in North Dakota last November, voting rights advocates and tribes faced what seemed like an insurmountable task: to reach thousands of tribal members and others who could be turned away at the polls because of a new voter I.D. law. Tribal leaders, organizations, and volunteers came together to bring Native voters in compliance with the law, and in the process sparked one the largest Native vote turnouts ever in the state for a midterm election. Read more here
In the lead-up to the 2018 Midterm Election, tribes and voting advocates in North Dakota worried that a new law could have severely hamper voter turnout among tribal members. The law requires voters to list a physical address on their I.D., which was burdensome for many tribal members who relied on post office boxes for […]
