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Wednesday, April 6, 2016
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Blackfeet members can register to vote without having to leave the reservation
Indian Health Service official discusses reform at hospitals in Great Plains area
Lakota language teachers, speakers, and learners work to keep language alive
Tuesday, April 5, 2016
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Native leaders call for federal investigation into police shooting death of Navajo woman
Chief Wahoo faces new challenge as baseball season begins for Ohio’s Cleveland Indians
Lac du Flambeau woman named first female general in Wisconsin Army National Guard
Friday, April 1, 2016
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Sicangu leader says Black Hills peak will always be known by its traditional Native meaning as board decides name
Voting advocates take part in New Mexico convention to learn ways to get out the Native vote in tribal communities
Monday, April 20, 2015
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Metis Nation of Saskatchewan in Canada closes its doors after reported political infighting
Alaska Native leaders and advocates praise effort to keep Native children with Native families
Oklahoma tribe to host event in observance of National Child Abuse Prevention Month
Wednesday, April 8, 2015
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Lower Brule vice chair discusses leadership after recent death of chairman
Advocates raise awareness of violence against Native women in Oklahoma
Gila River tribe holds event for new low-power digital TV station
Friday, April 3, 2015
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Paiute Chairwoman Ousted After Accepting Gifts From Washington NFL Team
Tribes In South Dakota Praise VAWA
Activists In New Mexico Work To Abolish Columbus Day
Monday, June 17, 2024
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Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota is pulling its share of funding from a clinic meant to provide women’s health services for enrolled members living in Rapid City.
One official says that’s because the clinic has not offered appointments for over a year.
SDPB’s Lee Strubinger has more.
The Native Women’s Health Clinic is contracted to provide obstetric and gynecologic services for eligible Indian women.
The clinic is located in the Oyate Health Center, but operates as a separate organization.
According to a report obtained by SDPB earlier this year, the clinic had 4,800 visits in 2021.
The number of visits plummeted to zero by April of 2023.
This April, both Rosebud and Cheyenne River Sioux tribes put the clinic on notice — saying they would pull their funding shares if the clinic failed to start seeing patients.
Rosebud Sioux Tribal President Scott Herman says the tribe has concern about the women’s health clinic.
“It was stated at one of the meetings they haven’t provided that service for a year and a half. It became an issue with some of the leadership as far as how we’re going to provide that service down there.”
Herman says the Rosebud Sioux Tribe is trying to correct a problem.
He says it’s too premature to say what the tribes plan to do with their shares allotted to the tribe to fund women’s health in Rapid City.
Patients are getting referred to midwives located at Oyate Health Center and floor below the clinic, as well as other clinics in Rapid City.
Herman says Rosebud’s resolution mirrors a Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe resolution to pull its shares from Native Women’s Health Clinic.
Cheyenne River officials have not return requests for comment. Additionally, the tribe voted last month to pull its publicly available council meeting video feed.
Oglala Sioux Tribal president Frank Star Comes Out has also not returned requests for comment.
Diné College in Tsaile, Ariz. is starting a new program that will focus on Navajo law.
Clark Adomaitis has more.
Diné College serves primarily a Navajo student population, and focuses on Navajo language and culture.
The college is collaborating with Arizona State University in offering 20 undergraduate students a Bachelor of Arts program in Navajo law starting in the fall.
“When it comes to Western law, that process is important and it’s followed.”
Patrick Blackwater is a Dean at Diné College.
“To understand what law is from different perspectives, especially from the Navajo Nation side, meaning the cultural side that level of fundamental law that should also be incorporated into it.”
Blackwater says that Navajo Fundamental Law is an important but not well understood aspect of legal practice on the Navajo Nation.
It is a written way of Life for Navajo people, which provides principles that were once only passed down verbally.
“Navajo fundamental law is the way in which Navajos understand natural law in which we communicate, interact with each other, but also every being and resource within the universe in this world…that’s how we understand our beginnings and our laws. And that’s what is mostly going to be the foundation of this program.”
Students who complete the Navajo Law program will have opportunities to study higher level law at Arizona State University.
U.S. Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN) has announced $1.75 million for the White Earth Nation in Minnesota to use energy storage to increase the tribe’s use of solar power.
The project will expand an existing solar array at an elementary school and community center in efforts to help lower electricity costs.
The funding is from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity.
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Wednesday, June 5, 2024
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A new clinic has recently opened on the Grand Ronde reservation in eastern Oregon to address gaps in care for tribal members.
Eric Tegethoff has more.
The Cheryle A. Kennedy Public Health Clinic expands the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde’s health system and will provide a range of benefits, including preventative services like vaccinations, dental care, and nutrition classes.
Kelly Rowe, health director for the Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, says the the goal of the clinic is to ensure tribal members have health services nearby.
“The whole thought behind the big clinic was to bring everything here to Grand Ronde so people could get it without having to travel.”
With the clinic, members won’t have to drive long distances for most of the their health-care needs.
The closest city is 50 miles away.
Enrolled members of the Grand Ronde can get free health services from the hospital.
Tribal members say self-reliance is nonnegotiable because of their long history of mistreatment by the federal government.
The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde were created in 1857 after the federal government forcibly removed the 29 distinct bands of the Tillamook people from the Oregon coast.
Rowe says the goal is to add even more health services to the clinic.
“They’re very committed to making sure that they’re providing health care and providing as much as possible for the membership.”
This story is a collaboration with Oregon News Service and Daily Yonder
About the only signs of the rare white raven that entertained Anchorage last winter are pictures posted on a Facebook page, taken before it disappeared.
It’s a photo parade of the bird’s greatest hits, with its trickster nature on full display as it relished pieces of toast and tater tots from restaurant dumpsters.
Thousands and thousands of photos were taken and yet, as Rhonda McBride from our flagship station KNBA tells us, the bird remains a mystery.
Anchorage’s love affair with the white raven began last October, when it was spotted in a neighborhood called Spenard, with lots of restaurants and lots of dumpsters.
To the delight of photographers, the bird seemed to enjoy playing to the cameras and was quite vocal.
The bird went silent in April, when it left town with most of the ravens that had wintered there.
Biologists say this is normal – that ravens fly far afield in the summer in search of solitude to nest and raise their young.
Even so, the White Raven’s departure has left a hole in the heart of Spenard.
“We were able to realize and see something that had been foretold.”
Charlene Apok says Alaska Natives have many stories about how the White Raven would someday appear as a messenger of hope and healing.
Last winter, she says she saw the bird a lot from her office building, where White Raven’s visits caused considerable excitement.
“Oh, White Raven out this window. Then you hear the whole building, thump, thump thump. Everyone would run across the building to see the raven.”
Apok says she misses White Raven, but says bird’s absence leaves time and space to reflect.
Aaron Towarak: “I couldn’t really believe it. It was kind of surreal in the moment.”
Towarak may have been one of the first people to photograph the bird.
He saw it on October 20, as he walked along Spenard.
At first, he thought it was a seagull.
“But then I looked a little closer and there’s another raven with it, and then it cawed. And I was like, is that a White Raven?”
Towarak does know something about raven sounds. He spent his childhood in Unalakleet learning how to talk to the birds.
Towarak says White Raven marks an important turning point in his life. He was living in a hotel, waiting to get into an alcohol and drug treatment program, but relapsed and was kicked out.
“It’s a tough when you’re in your addiction to feel much outside of wanting that high. But in that moment, it kind of re-awoke something in me. I felt wonder.”
Towarak eventually got into a treatment program, found sobriety, got a job, and reunited with his children, a journey that began with a call from White Raven.
Towarak never did try out his raven call on the bird. But perhaps if it returns to winter in Anchorage, he’ll get a chance to say “thank you.”
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Thursday, May 9, 2024
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The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes say Montana’s TikTok ban, if implemented, would overstep tribal sovereignty.
Montana Public Radio’s Aaron Bolton reports the tribes filed a brief this week to join the legal battle over the ban.
The Salish and Kootenai Tribes side with opponents of the TikTok ban as the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals considers the 2023 law.
A federal district court last fall threw out a ban, saying it would violate free speech rights, as well as the federal supremacy clause of the constitution.
The Tribes say it would violate the nation’s right to issue its own rules and regulations on the Flathead Reservation.
The brief also said that social media plays an outsized role in disseminating official information from tribal governments. That’s because many people lack high-speed internet at home and largely rely on their phones.
A new federal law will ban the social media app if its China-based parent company doesn’t sell the app within a year.
TikTok is suing the U.S. over that law.
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The Qawalangin Tribe of Unalaska launched a new program to provide fresh, organic, Alaska-sourced foods to the entire Aleutian community – and to some regional partners.
KUCB’s Andy Lusk reports, organizers held a distribution trial run this spring.
At the event, Unalaskans came to the tribe’s food bank and received bags full of carrots, potatoes, cabbage, and beef — all completely free. That produce and meat came from a family farm in Palmer.
The tribe is interested in partnering with multiple providers over the course of the program, including local fishermen.
Tanaya Horne is the tribe’s COO.
She says the program is part of their ongoing wellness initiatives, and aims to support Alaska farmers by offering their products to locals looking for high-quality, minimally processed foods.
“For Alaska Native people, for American Indian people, our love language is food. That is how we show that we want to be partners with you, and we want to show you that we care about you.”
The project first developed last spring, when the Qawalangin Tribe met with USDA representatives at an economic summit.
The tribe was ultimately awarded over $2 million for the project through the USDA’s Local Food Purchase Assistance Program.
The project came together in partnership with the Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association, who helped facilitate rollout of produce and meat to tribal organizations across the Aleutian Islands region.
Anfesia Tutiakoff is the Qawalangin Tribe’s cultural director. She hopes the program can dovetail with some of the foods already available in Unalaska, including local herbs.
“The more that we’re able to harvest our natural foods on-island, and use natural foods from these farmers, you’re getting less and less processed foods the more that we do these kinds of programs.”
Tribal services manager Marie Schomer says that during the trial run, around 5,000 pounds of food arrived and was distributed to the community.
“I love doing it, personally, because a lot of families out here are struggling [with] the cost of food. And if you’re able to give them a couple bags of fresh produce and meat, it’s very helpful.”
The cost of food in Alaska is famously high and Unalaska is no exception.
Groceries are barged into the island and take longer to deliver than to stores in the lower 48.
Organizers expect the program to continue throughout the next two years, working in conjunction with other regional tribal organizations’ food security initiatives.
In Unalaska, there are no income restrictions to participation.
Anyone is welcome to take food whether they are a member of the Qawalangin Tribe or not.
Horne says she expects the program to do bi-weekly food bank events by the summer.
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