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4 years

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) statement: "I stand with the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in their fight to restore lands that belong to them & oppose the disgraceful decision by the Trump Administration to disestablish their lands held in trust by the Department of Interior." @SenSanders

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The Ho-Chunk Nation Drum, with special guest Mark Ruffalo, performs at reception in honor of Rep. Sharice Davids and Rep. Deb Haaland, the first Native women in Congress. #NativeCongress @repdebhaaland @RepDavids @Deb4CongressNM @sharicedavids

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Deb Haaland will be sworn in wearing her traditional Pueblo clothing. She is here with her family, including her mother. Swearing in ceremony starts at 12pm Eastern. #NativeCongress #SheReady @Deb4CongressNM

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Bad River Band seeks answers after police officer shoots and kills 14-year-old boy #JusticeForJason #Wisconsin

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Native women lead round dance at teepee in front of Trump Tower #NoDAPL #NativeNationsRise #NativeNations

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BIG WIN FOR INDIAN COUNTRY: The 5th Circuit Court of Appeals just issued its decision in the Indian Child Welfare Act case. By unanimous vote, the court upheld the constitutionality of the law designed to prevent Indian children from being taken from their communities.

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The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe held a welcoming and naming ceremony for NBA star Kyrie Irving and his sister. "We're welcoming home two of our own," Chairman Mike Faith said.

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🔥🔥BIG #NoDAPL NEWS🔥🔥 Federal judge FINALLY invalidated permits for Dakota Access Pipeline. Orders oil to stop flowing! "Although mindful of the disruption such a shutdown will cause, the court now concludes that the answer is yes." @bigfirelaw @CRSTChairman @StandingRockST

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ICYMI: A tribal citizen has been nominated to lead National Park Service, the agency overseeing millions of acres of ancestral tribal territories and treaty lands. If confirmed, Chuck Sams would be first Native @natlparkservice director. #ChuckSams

Tribal citizen nominated to lead National Park Service for first time in history

President Biden is once again making history with his choice to lead the National Park Service, the federal agency that oversees millions of acres of ancestral tribal territories and treaty lands.

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From restoring tribal jurisdiction to protecting sacred places and our environment, Pete Buttigieg's platform speaks to issues important to tribal nations and tribal citizens-An endorsement from the leader of the Bay Mills Indian Community. #NativeVote2020

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7 years

Heading to White House #NoDAPL #NativeNationsRise #NativeNations

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"My First Amendment right was violated," Chairman JoDe Goudy of the Yakama Nation said after being barred from the Supreme Court for wearing his traditional regalia. #WeAreStillHere

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Mary Peltola (Yup’ik) will be sworn into the 117th Congress today! Peltola (D) is making history as the 1st Alaska Native woman in Congress. She is representing Alaska's sole Congressional district in US House of Representatives. Peltola will cast first votes after swearing in.

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From Standing Rock Sioux Tribe on Facebook #NoDAPL

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The Native American Democratic Caucus of New Mexico presented Deb Haaland with a special gift: Ten Ways to Indigenize Congress. Number 10: “Always remember every day is a good day to be Indigenous” #SheReady @Deb4CongressNM

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Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) have introduced the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act, a bipartisan bill that seeks #TruthAndHealing for the damaging #BoardingSchool era. @RepDebHaaland @SenWarren

Bipartisan bill establishes Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy

Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) and Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Massachusetts) introduced the Truth and Healing Commission on Indian Boarding School Policy Act, a bill that seeks healing for stolen...

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US Capitol illuminated in pillars of light. A total of 56 pillars, representing 50 states and U.S. territories, surrounded the US Capitol and the National Mall ahead of Democratic President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration. #DC #FieldOfFlags

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A Lakota mother is trying to understand why a school secretary cut her two little girls’ hair without her consent. And then, days later, did it again. #NativeYouth #Nebraska #FlatwaterFreePress

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Amid #COVID19 pandemic, Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe has been told that its reservation will be taken out of trust. Chairman Cedric Cromwell: "Not since the termination era of the mid-twentieth century has a Secretary taken action to disestablish a reservation"

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8 years

Obama administration halts Dakota Access Pipeline pending further review #NoDAPL

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PROTECT ICWA. STOP COLONIZERS. STOP STEALING NATIVE KIDS. A large crowd is gathered outside of the U.S. Supreme Court with speeches, song and prayer as the justices debate the fate of the Indian Child Welfare Act. #StopColonizers #DefendICWA #ProtectICWA #ICWA #SupremeCourt

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The final page -- more importantly the final paragraph -- of Justice Neil Gorsuch's concurring opinion in Indian Child Welfare Act case demands its own post. #ICWA #Brackeen #DefendICWA #ProtectICWA

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"I struggled with homelessness, I relied on food stamps and raised my child as a single mom," Secretary of the Interior nominee Deb Haaland (Pueblo of Laguna) says after acknowledging Delaware as Lenape homelands. @RepDebHaaland @DebHaalandNM #SkoDeb

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"This is all of our country. This is our mother. It's difficult to not feel obligated to protect this land. I feel like every Indigenous person in this country understands this," Deb Haaland tells Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii). #DebForInterior

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6 years

The late Mary Golda Ross, a Cherokee citizen who is considered to be the first Native woman aerospace engineer, is finally gaining widespread attention for her achievements. #GoogleDoodle

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4 years

In case people forgot, the House passed H.R.375, a bill to ensure the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe keeps its homelands in trust. The Senate has yet to take up the measure. Congress in the past has protected tribal lands-there was even a Supreme Court case about it. #StandWithMashpee

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@rafika @indianz Following this thread in the hopes someone answers this question 😥

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Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) will no longer serve on the House Committee on Natural Resources, where he regularly obstructed efforts to protect tribal homelands, after being censured for a violent social media post. #PaulGosar #Republicans #CronkiteNews

Cronkite News: Republican loses committee posts for violent social media post

Rep. Paul Gosar (R-Arizona) will no longer serve on the House Committee on Natural Resources, where he regularly objected to efforts to protect tribal territories.

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Tokata Iron Eyes, young citizen of Standing Rock Sioux Tribe #NoDAPL #NativeNationsRise #NativeNations

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"We will not apologize for being an island of safety in a sea of uncertainty and death": Chairman Harold Frazier @CRSTChairman of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe responds to #SouthDakota @govkristinoem over #Coronavirus checkpoints. #COVID19 #Sovereignty

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To mark the start of Native American Heritage Month, Native employees @FBI laid a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Friday. The wreath featuring Native elements was made by Shayai Lucero (Laguna Pueblo) of Earth Sky Floral. @EarthSkyFloral @RepDebHaaland

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Rep. Sharice Davids honors her mother with a star quilt. “I wouldn’t be here without the support of a strong Ho-Chunk woman,” Davids said of her mother at Washington DC reception in her honor. #NativeCongress @sharicedavids @RepDavids

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The adorable 3 and 4 year olds from the Pueblo of Isleta Head Start are performing at the reception hosted by the National Congress of American Indians at the 76th annual convention in Albuquerque, New Mexico. @NCAI1944

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The U.S. Supreme Court also has issued the long-awaited decision in Haaland v. Brackeen. #ICWA #DefendICWA #ProtectICWA

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7 years

Large veterans group heads to #NoDAPL frontline in North Dakota

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THIS JUST IN: A federal judge has ordered Trump administration to distribute remainder of $8 billion #CoronavirusReliefFund to tribes. @USTreasury and Secretary Steve Mnuchin @stevenmnuchin1 are causing "irreparable harm" by continuing to withhold full amount owed, ruling states.

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"I do not think it is right": A scholar who made a name for herself in the Native food sovereignty movement has vowed to stop claiming to be of Native descent -- after doing so for decades. #LizHoover #ElizabethHoover #FoodSovereignty #Pretendians

Native food sovereignty figure admits no tribal connections

A scholar who has made a name for herself in Native food sovereignty has vowed to stop claiming to be of “Mohawk/Mi’kmaq descent” despite doing so for decades.

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Today's issue of The New York Times includes a special section on women in Congress. One of the 27 editions features Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) on the cover! The edition was printed in Santa Fe so check for copies across New Mexico. @RepDebHaaland

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Just in: A BIG victory for the Yakama Nation! A federal judge has confirmed that a 121,465-acre parcel in #Washington has always been a part of the reservation. The parcel was included in the Yakama Treaty of 1855. #HonorTheTreaties

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IT'S HERE! The U.S. Supreme Court has narrowly sided with Indian Country in one of the most consequential cases in recent history. #McGirt #HonorTheTreaties

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“The Department of the Interior mourns with Secretary Deb Haaland as she and her family grieve the loss of her mother”: Mary Toya, a Pueblo matriarch, veteran and educator, has passed on. #MaryToya #DebHaaland #Obituaries

Mary Toya, mother of Secretary Deb Haaland, passes on

“The Department of the Interior mourns with Secretary Deb Haaland as she and her family grieve the loss of her mother,” a statement read.

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Congratulations to Mixtec/Triqui actress Yalitza Aparicio! She has been nominated for an Oscar for her role in "Roma." She's up for Lead Actress and appears to be the first Indigenous person nominated in the category. #film

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Statement from Chief Gary Batton of Choctaw Nation: “The loss of a child is always difficult for a community and a family to accept. Although Nex does not appear to be affiliated with our tribe, their mother, Sue Benedict, is a registered member," said Batton.

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"The Women of the 116th Congress": Here's Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) on the cover of the special section of The New York Times! Photo by Mellor Willie, @NavajoAdvocate , who picked up a copy of the paper on Navajo homelands! @RepDebHaaland

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Native women standing strong at teepee at Trump Tower #NoDAPL #NativeNationsRise #NativeNations

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Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas and Rep. Deb Haaland are here! They are the first Native women in Congress. They are already at work and are casting votes this evening as Indian Country honors them at reception in Washington DC #NativeCongress @repdebhaaland @repdavids

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New from @Transition46 : In her first meeting as Interior Secretary-designee, Deb Haaland hosted a virtual roundtable with tribal leaders on December 28, 2020. @DebHaalandNM #SheRepresents #JoeBiden #KamalaHarris

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Descendants of the Wounded Knee Massacre are in the nation's capital this week, calling on the United States to rescind the Medals of Honor awarded to the men who participated the slaughter of their ancestors on December 29, 1890. #genocide

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Justice Gorsuch adds this nugget in explaining the sovereignty of Indian nations--as understood for CENTURIES: "We now know that, at the founding, the Tribes retained their sovereignty. We know also that States have virtually no role to play in managing interactions with Tribes."

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Valentina Blackhorse, a young and vibrant mother from the Navajo Nation, died on April 23, 2020. Well known in Indian Country pageant circles, she served as Miss Dine College and as Miss Western Navajo. She succumbed to #COVID19 . #Coronavirus #Arizona @NNPrezNez @NNVPLizer2019

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"We are grateful to Mayor Pete and his campaign for this meeting and welcome further dialogue with politicians and candidates on how we can work together for the future of our people": the Catawba Nation welcomed Pete Buttigieg for a historic visit to the reservation. #NativeVote

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BIG NEWS FROM SUPREME COURT: By a vote 5 to 4, the court has affirmed the off-reservation treaty rights of the Crow Tribe! PDF here: #HonorTheTreaies

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It's going to be rough day for tribes and Indian organizations. They will not get paid what they are owed by the United States of America. #TrumpShutdown #EndTheShutdown

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Deb Haaland has been confirmed as Secretary of the Interior! She is the first Native person to lead the Department of the Interior. #DebForInterior #DebAtInterior #DebHaaland

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Some sad news to share. Harlan McKosato (Sac & Fox) has passed on. He was longtime former host of Native America Calling, broadcasting from Studio 49 weekdays. He was a strong supporter of Native media. He was 54 years old. @harlan_sauk

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“Bless those standing before you, who carry a sacred trust to all those who inhabit Turtle Island”: Verna Teller of Isleta Pueblo just delivered the opening prayer in the U.S. House of Representatives! #NativeWomenLead #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NativeAmerican @RepDebHaaland

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Congratulations to Kevin Gover! After 13 years at the National Museum of the American Indian @SmithsonianNMAI , the Pawnee Nation citizen will be serving as Under Secretary for Museums and Culture for the entire Smithsonian Institution @smithsonian , effective January 17, 2021.

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7 years

In post-election statement Standing Rock Sioux Tribe calls on Obama to reject Dakota Access Pipeline #NoDAPL

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"The Black Hills are still ours by treaty," Marcella LeBeau, a 99-year-old World War II veteran from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, says at Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum. "We want our Hills back." #NativeForum #NativeVote2020 #NativeVote #HonorTheTreaties

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Lauren J. King, attorney and Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen, is being nominated to serve on the federal bench! If confirmed, King would be the FIRST Native federal judge in Washington state history and only the third active Native federal judge. @fostergarveylaw @MvskokeRez

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"I am sorry for harm I have caused. I have listened and I have learned a lot," Elizabeth Warren @ewarren Senator from Massachusetts says at Frank LaMere Native American Presidential Forum in apparent reference to Native ancestry confusion. #NativeForum #NativeVote #NativeVote2020

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Congratulations to Rebecca Nagle! The Cherokee journalist won the American Mosiac Journalism Prize for her groundbreaking Indian law podcast "This Land." @rebeccanagle #ThisLand

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Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) meets Miss Native American USA Karyl Frankiewicz at the United South and Eastern Tribes 2019 Impact Week meeting. Frankiewicz is a citizen of the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians. @USETINC @RepDebHaaland

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The Acoma Shield is finally coming home. The sacred item was taken from the Pueblo of Acoma in the 1970s. It ended up in France where it went up for auction until diplomatic efforts halted the sale at the last minute. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #NativeAmerican @AcomaPueblo

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Sen. Heitkamp (D-North Dakota) introduces bill to address 'epidemic' of missing and murdered Native women #mmiw

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Heading to White House #NoDAPL #NativeNationsRise #NativeNations

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The Hopi Tribe and the Navajo Nation are among 26 tribes that will see the return of ancestral remains and artifacts from Finland. #HonorTheSacred

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On her first day in office, @SecDebHaaland also engaged with Native media. Secretary Deb Haaland spoke with @indianz , @IndianCountry & other Native reporters about tribal consultation, tribal sovereignty & engaging with Indian Country. It was her very first media call in fact!

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"The well-being of Indigenous Peoples & Tribal Nations is intrinsically tied to their land. For far too long, the federal government has adopted policies that take land away from tribes, ignore treaty rights & interfere with tribal management of their own resources." @SenSanders

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Actresses Susan Sarandon and Shailene Woodley join #NoDAPL rally at federal court in DC #StandWithStandingRock

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"It's not just my day, it's not just Deb's day, it belongs to all of us": Indian Country celebrates Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland #NativeCongress

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A high school on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation is the first in the nation with a class on treaties #SouthDakota

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The Biden administration is once again reversing negative actions taken during the Trump era. This time, the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation @MHANation1825 is the beneficiary of change, with the tribe's ownership of the riverbed of the Missouri River being recognized again.

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A terrible headline already from The New York Times: "Supreme Court Rules in Favor of Oklahoma Indian Claim" Sorry @nytimes (and mainstream media). A treaty is not a "claim" -- it's the law of the land. #McGirt #HonorTheTreaties

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Why is it permissible for some to limit travel within their territory, but not acceptable for sovereign Indian nations to do the same? Marcella LeBeau, the 100yo Lakota veteran who served in World War II, defends #Coronavirus checkpoints. @govkristinoem

Marcella LeBeau: Vulnerable Native Americans need protection from COVID-19

As a retired World War II army nurse and former Indian Health Service Director of Nursing, I know how fragile and precious life is.

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The Navajo Nation is making history with the largest tribally owned renewable power plant in the country. The Kayenta Solar Project generates enough power for 18,000 homes on the reservation.

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A young citizen of the Navajo Nation is suing a public school district and a teacher who allegedly called her a "bloody Indian" in front of the entire class. #Racism #NewMexico

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"We are homeland security": The Tohono O'odham Nation is demanding a seat at the table as President Trump continues to push for a border wall that would further divide the tribe and its citizens.

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“We refuse to sacrifice our water for the sake of a Canadian oil company”: An oil spill has galvanized tribal opposition to the Keystone XL Pipeline. #NoKXL #MniWiconi

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The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs just approved S.1942, also known as Savanna's Act, at a business meeting. The bill requires the Department of Justice to provide annual reports on the numbers of missing and murdered Indian women. #MMIW #MMIWG

Savanna's Act Advances

The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs approved S.1942, Savanna's Act, at a business meeting on November 14, 2018. The bill is named in honor of Savanna Marie Greywind , a 22-year-old woman from the

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This is the same Republican politician who came for tribal nations in 2004, called them greedy and accused them of not paying their "fair share" to the colonial government of #California .

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My message to my fellow Americans and friends around the world following this week's attack on the Capitol.

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The Navajo Nation is accepting a $10 million settlement from one of the companies involved in the massive Gold King Mine disaster. Millions of gallons of toxic waste spilled into the San Juan River in August 2015, harming livelihoods of Navajo residents, farmers and ranchers.

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"A resounding victory": The Yakama Nation is celebrating after a federal appeals court confirmed that the tribe has been right all along about its treaty lands. #HonorTheTreaties

Yakama Nation celebrates ‘resounding victory’ for treaty lands

The Yakama Nation is celebrating after a federal appeals court confirmed that the tribe has been right all along about its treaty lands.

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Charlene Teters began her protests against racism in sports with a simple sign: "Indians are Human Beings, Not Mascots." #NotYourMascot

Native Sun News Today: They call her the Rosa Parks of Indian Country

Charlene Teters began her protests against racism in sports with a simple sign: 'Indians are Human Beings Not Mascots.'

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WATCH: Rep. Deb Haaland (D-NM) thanks Wounded Knee Massacre Descendants for Lakota name “Thakini Wichacinzin Win” -- Defender of the Wounded Knee People. The name was chosen by the descendants during their trip to the nation's capital for the Remove the Stain Act. @RepDebHaaland

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There is no difference between Blackface and Redface. #racism

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Statues are coming down. Civil War generals. Mass murderers. And Christopher Columbus. Imagine the Native leaders and visionaries who could be honored in their place. @IndianCountry story by @TrahantReports .

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Descendants of the Wounded Knee Massacre present an eagle feather plume to Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico) thanking her for introducing the Remove the Stain Act to rescind the Medals of Honor for the 1890 massacre. #RemoveTheStain

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Justice Neil Gorsuch in concurring #ICWA opinion: "The Indian Child Welfare Act did not emerge from a vacuum. It came as a direct response to the mass removal of Indian children from their families during the 1950s, 1960s, & 1970s by state officials & private parties." #Brackeen

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Rep. Sharice Davids (D-Kansas) and Rep. Deb Haaland (D-New Mexico), the first two Native women in the House of Representatives, are among the 130 women in Congress who were photographed by The New York Times for this "Redefining Representation" feature.

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Another historic #NativeVote18 victory, this time in #Kansas . Sharice Davids @sharicedavids is the Democratic nominee for #KS03 . The Ho-Chunk Nation citizen defeated five other opponents on primary day!

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By a vote of 323 to 96, the US House of Representatives on May 15, 2019, passed H.R.375, a bill to ensure all tribes, regardless of the date of federal recognition, can restore their homelands through the land into trust process. #CarcieriFix

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"One of the worst written documents I've ever read from any government agency": A federal judge trashed the Trump administration for changing course on tribal homelands policy during the worst public health crisis in decades. #COVID19 #StandWithMashpee

'You're gonna have a lot of trouble': Judge trashes Trump over changes in tribal homelands policy

A federal judge trashed the Trump administration for changing course on Indian Country homelands policy during the worst public health crisis in decades.

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The Yurok Tribe is buying back ancestral lands, rebuilding its economy and becoming more self-sufficient. "This was always our home," Vice Chairman David Gensaw says. #California

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“The horrifying acts of violence against hundreds of Lakota men, women, and children at Wounded Knee should be condemned, not celebrated with Medals of Honor”: Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) is introducing Remove the Stain Act, month ahead of 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre anniversary.

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Deb Haaland (Laguna) in traditional dress.1st Native woman chair of NM Dems."Very proud moment" #DemsInPhilly

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There are a hundred-plus Native candidates running for office. More than half are women. #SheRepresents #NativeVote18

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The 116th Congress has yet to begin but the two Native women who won their historic campaigns are already casting a key vote. #SheRepresents

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Justice Gorsuch continues: "By now, the full picture has come into view and it is easy to see why ICWA must stand. Under our Constitution, Tribes remain independent sovereigns responsible for governing their own affairs." #ICWA #Brackeen #DefendICWA #ProtectICWA

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"I am proud to support Joe Biden in the hopes that the agreements made between our nations in the name of peace will honored": Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe @CRSTChairman Harold Frazier is endorsing #JoeBiden for president. #HonorTheTreaties #NativeVote20

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Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is promising to fight for a #Carcieri fix in order to prevent the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and other Indian nations from losing their homelands. @JoeBiden #StandWithMashpee

I stand with Mashpee — and with all of Indian Country.

This past weekend, in the midst of a pandemic, the Trump Administration chose to expend effort and resources to attempt to remove land…

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