Native American News
October 9, 2019
ROCKVILLE, Md. — The Indian Health Service has awarded $2.4 million to nine Tribal Epidemiology Centers to support American Indian and Alaska Native communities in reducing new HIV infections and relevant co-morbidities, specifically hepati...
Native American News
October 9, 2019
TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. — The Legal Services Corporation (LSC) recently announced that Michigan Indian Legal Services (MILS) would receive a $181,084 Pro Bono Innovation Fund grant. LSC’s Pro Bono Innovation Fund (PBIF) is intended to encourage an...
Native American News
October 9, 2019
The American Financial Exchange (AFX), the electronic interbank lending market for U.S. financial institutions, announced last week that the People’s Bank of Seneca joined the exchange, becoming the first native-owned bank to join AFX. According...
Cherokee Nation News
October 8, 2019
OKLAHOMA CITY – In classrooms across Oklahoma and the nation, students are taught to read using a theory that has been discredited by decades of research by brain scientists.This “three-cueing system,” first proposed in 1967, is pervasive...
Native American News
October 8, 2019
POMONA, Calif. — The focus of the Second Annual Indigenous Peoples Day in Pomona, California will be on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Woman (MMIW). Tribal chairman Dee Dee Manzanares Ybarra, Rumšen Ohlone, ...
Native American News
October 8, 2019
CHICAGO — As part of the Chicago Cultural Alliance’s Inherit Chicago month of programs, four cultural allies will present a panel discussion on repatriation of human remains and cultural patrimony October 10th at the National Hellenic...
Native American News
October 8, 2019
From the Center for Indian Country Development: New study shows Native Americans face higher-priced mortgage rates MINNEAPOLIS — Native Americans living on reservations who want to buy homes are significantly more likely to have high-pric...
Chickasaw Nation News
October 7, 2019
ADA, Okla. — An October 1 inauguration ceremony marked the beginning of an unprecedented ninth consecutive term for Chickasaw Nation Governor Bill Anoatubby. The ceremony was conducted on the East Central University campus in a theater named for Chic...
Native American News
October 7, 2019
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. — Candi Brings Plenty has joined the American Civil Liberties Union as the organization’s new indigenous justice organizer for South Dakota and North Dakota. As indigenous justice organizer, Brings Plenty works to build the AC...
Native American News
October 7, 2019
UINTAH AND OURAY INDIAN RESERVATION — Shaun Chapoose, a member of the Ute Indian Tribe and resident of the Uintah and Ouray Reservation in Utah, has officially announced his candidacy for president of the National Congress of American Indians. The el...
Native American News
October 7, 2019
Sec. Wilkie met with Native veterans to share that the Veterans Administration is working to increase tribal outreach virtually in cooperation with Indian Health Services United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs Robert Leon Wilkie Jr. met with Native America...
Native American News
October 7, 2019
October 5th, 2019 marks five years since Misty left us. In her absence, we have continued to pursue the answers to questions that were left behind. Many groups have evolved over the years including MMIW, No More Stolen Sisters, Futures Without Violence and...
