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Friday, December 30, 3016

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Bullet holes mar the petroglyphs at Gold Butte. Supporters are praising President Obama’s designation of the area as a national monument. (Justin McAfee/Friends of Gold Butte)


Tribal leaders reflect on Obama’s legacy and prepare for next administration

Native Americans applaud declaration of Gold Butte National Monument

Agreement in Wisconsin to help tribal college students earn education degree

Thursday, December 29, 2016

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Bears Ears sunrise. (Photo-Tim Peterson)

Navajo Nation among tribes to celebrate Bears Ears National Monument designation

First Nation’s marry out, stay out policy faces the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

Cheyenne River Youth Project announces the creation of Lakota youth art institute

Wednesday, December 28, 2016

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Minnesota’s White Earth MOMS program has been honored for its work with pregnant mothers and new parents to fight drug addiction.(mn.gov/dhs)

Tribal leaders stand with Montana elected officials in opposing threats from white nationalists

Canadian government’s new education agreement to give Manitoba First Nations more control

Native American composer selected for music residency with South Dakota Symphony Orchestra

Minnesota Department of Human Services honors some agencies helping Native Americans

Tuesday, December 27, 2016

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The traveling Native Voices exhibit, like this one at the Trickster Art Gallery in Schaumburg, Illinois utilizes storytelling to explore Native medicine (Photo: National Library of Medicine)

The U.S. Justice Department expands tribal access to a national criminal database

Quebec begins a probe into how police and other officials treat indigenous people

An exhibit uses story-telling to discuss Native medicine and healthcare

Monday, December 26, 2016

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Bedushia Nicholi traveled to North Dakota to demonstrate against the Dakota Access Pipeline. (Photo-Bedushia Nicholi)

A Yup’ik woman shares her experience at Standing Rock

Some young Lakota poets dispel stereotypes about poetry

Friday, December 23, 2016

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The Navajo language version of Finding Nemo airs Sunday on FNX (Image courtesy Disney/Pixar).


Montana tribal leaders are optimistic about the choice for Interior secretary

The camps at Standing Rock prepare for a festive weekend and a blizzard

A world premiere of a popular animated movie—and it’s on an all-Indigenous network

Thursday, December 22, 2016

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Nancy Nelson (left) and Laura Hobson (right) browse in a local antiques store. The two spend several hours together each week as part of the Kenaitze Senior Companion Program. (Photo-courtesy Kenaitze Indian Tribe)

South Dakota tribe plans to manage its own health clinic currently under construction

The Kenaitze Tribe’s senior companion program pairs people together to do daily tasks

Wednesday, December 21, 2016

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Window Rock, Arizona. (Photo-Antonia Gonzales)

Colville reservation could get land back as part of federal program

Navajo Nation council to hold public hearing on housing issues

Canadian woman fights to be recognized by government as Indian

Montana’s Denise Juneau ponders what’s next after failed congressional bid

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By Nicky Ouellet 
Just a month after losing her hard-fought congressional bid, Montana’s Denise Juneau is looking to turn defeat into a new opportunity. She’d hoped to be the first Native American in Congress. Now, Juneau confirms she’s interested in the top post at the University of Montana.

“I think I have a great record, and I am interested in the position,” Juneau said. “It is something I’ll be looking really closely at and if the answer was today it’d be yeah, I’m going to apply for the UM presidency.”

The current president, Royce Engstrom, made the surprise announcement this month that he’s stepping down. The university has endured declining enrollment and a wave of sexual assault reports.

Juneau’s tenure as Montana’s Superintendent of Public Instruction ends in January and she doesn’t have any solid plans for what comes after that. “I look forward to a little time off to readjust the sails and think about what it is I want to do and accomplish,” she said.

During her campaign, Juneau paid special attention to voters on Montana’s seven reservations – she’s Mandan and Hidatsa and grew up in Browning on the Blackfeet Reservation. Many pollsters and analysists expected her background to draw out the Native Vote, but it didn’t. Get-out-the-vote groups estimate Native American voter turnout in Montana at 59 percent. Montana’s overall rate was 74 percent.

Juneau says the loss stings, but she did everything she was supposed to.

“We just lost,” Juneau said. “People believed in this race, they believed in my candidacy and you can’t ask for more than that.”

Tuesday, December 20, 2016

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Patty Pourier, Lakota, organized a meeting aimed at finding solutions to preventing child abuse. (Photo-Jim Kent)

Ontario chief criticizes Canadian government over substandard housing on reserves

Pine Ridge community members gather to discuss ways to prevent child abuse

President Obama signs bill, which includes provision to return the Ancient One

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