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Southern Baptists expel church as pastor defends blackface and Native caricatures

Matoaka Baptist Church pastor said he was impersonating Ray Charles in one incident and dressed as a Native woman during "Cowboys and Indians Night" at a church camp.

WEKU

Southern Baptists expel Oklahoma church after pastor defends his blackface and Native caricatures

The Southern Baptist Convention has ousted an Oklahoma church whose pastor defended his blackface performance at one church event and his impersonation of a Native American woman at another

The Independent UK

Centuries after Native American remains were dug up, a new law returns them for reburial in Illinois

Illinois officials and Native Americans whose ancestors called the state home hope a new state law will speed the recovery and reburial of their relatives' remains unearthed over the past two centuries

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Biden administration restores the power of states and tribes to review projects to protect waterways

States and Native American tribes will have greater authority to block energy projects such as natural gas pipelines that could pollute rivers and streams under a final rule issued Thursday by the Biden administration

The Independent UK

Tribal nations face less accurate, more limited 2020 census data because of privacy methods

A majority of Native American tribes won't get the full suite of detailed demographic data from the 2020 census they had in the previous census

The Independent UK

Kroger just agreed to pay up to $1.2 billion to states and Native American tribes who sued it for distributing opioids

The settlement is not an admission of wrongdoing or liability, the company said, adding that it would “continue to vigorously defend against any other claims and lawsuits relating to opioids.”

Fortune

Congressional watchdog describes border wall harm, says agencies should work together to ease damage

Congress' official watchdog says in a report that the construction of a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border under former President Donald Trump toppled untold numbers of saguaro cactuses in Arizona, put endangered ocelots at risk in Texas and disturbed Native American burial grounds

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‘There There’ by Tommy Orange is the first novel by a Native American author chosen for One Book, One Chicago

“There There” is Tommy Orange’s first novel. It follows 12 characters who are all headed to a powwow at the Oakland Coliseum in California. It is the first novel about the urban Native American chosen by the Chicago Public Library for One Book, One Chicago.

Chicago Sun-Times

Minnesota seeks unifying symbol to replace state flag considered offensive to Native Americans

A state commission has begun designing a new state flag and seal for Minnesota

The Independent UK

Tribe getting piece of Minnesota back more than a century after ancestors died there

Golden prairies and winding rivers of a Minnesota state park also hold the secret burial sites of Dakota people who died as the U.S. failed to fulfill treaties with Native Americans more than a century ago

The Independent UK

Vandalism damages monument to frontiersman 'Kit' Carson, who led campaigns against Native Americans

Police in New Mexico’s capital city are investigating the partial destruction of a public monument to 19th century frontiersman Christopher “Kit” Carson

The Independent UK

Legacy of Native American boarding schools comes into view through a new interactive map

The list of boarding schools in the United States that once sought to “civilize” Native Americans, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians is getting longer

The Independent UK

New Mexico's top prosecutor vows to move ahead with Native education litigation

A landmark court ruling in 2018 determined New Mexico wasn’t meeting its responsibilities when it came to providing an adequate education to Native American students and many others, but tribal leaders say change has been slow

The Independent UK

Professor resigns after outrage over false claims of Native American roots

Andrea Smith, an ethnic studies scholar at a California university, had faced decades of criticism for claiming Cherokee heritage

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Judge OKs updated Great Lakes fishing agreement between native tribes, state and federal agencies

A federal judge has approved an updated Great Lakes fishing agreement between four Native American tribes and government agencies

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Native American group to digitize 20,000 archival pages linked to Quaker-run Indian boarding schools

The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition says it will digitize 20,000 archival pages related to Quaker-operated Indian boarding schools

The Independent UK

Fake Arizona rehab centers scam Native Americans far from home, officials warn during investigations

Hundreds of Native Americans have been recruited to addiction treatment centers in Phoenix from states as far away as Montana in a widespread billing scheme that mostly targeted Medicaid’s American Indian Health Program

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Marvel's Echo on Disney Plus: release date, cast, plot speculation, and more

Here’s everything worth knowing about Marvel Studios’ Echo, which launches on Disney Plus in late 2023.

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Sixth Circuit Affirms (2-1) Dismissal of Nicholas Sandmann's Libel Lawsuit Against the N.Y. Times and Others

Some excerpts from Sandmann v. N.Y. Times Co., decided yesterday by the Sixth Circuit, in an opinion by Judge Jane Stranch, joined by Judge Stephanie Davis (for more details, read the full opinions): On January 18, 2019, then-sixteen-year-old Nicholas Sandmann and his classmates had an interaction with a Native American…

The Independent UK

Ada Deer, influential Native American leader from Wisconsin, dies at 88

An esteemed Native American leader who was the first woman to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs has died

The Independent UK

US launches program to provide electricity to more Native American homes

The U.S. government will be putting more money toward getting electricity to Native American communities

The Independent UK

'Wounded Indian' sculpture given in 1800s to group founded by Paul Revere is returning to Boston

A statue that depicts a felled Native American pulling an arrow from his torso is being returned to the Boston-area organization cofounded by Paul Revere that thought it had been destroyed decades ago

WEKU

After decades, a tribe's vision for a new marine sanctuary could be coming true

The Biden administration is moving ahead with what could be the largest national marine sanctuary in the continental U.S. A Native American tribe is hoping to be partners in managing it.

The Independent UK

‘Native American’ or ‘Indigenous’? Journalism group rethinks name

The Native American Journalists Association is aiming to become more inclusive as its members vote on whether to rebrand as the Indigenous Journalists Association

The Independent UK

Supreme Court won't block a ruling favoring a Native American man cited for speeding in Tulsa

The Supreme Court has left in place a lower court ruling that invalidated a speeding ticket against a Native American man in Tulsa, Oklahoma, because the city is located within the boundaries of an Indian reservation

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