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Rights to 'Crying Indian' ad to go to Native American group

Since its debut in 1971, an anti-pollution ad showing a man in Native American attire shed a single tear at the sight of smokestacks and litter taking over a once unblemished landscape has become an indelible piece of TV pop culture

The Independent UK

Offshore wind halt urged by Native Americans seeking sway

The National Congress of American Indians on Thursday called for a moratorium on offshore wind development along U.S. coasts, insisting the Biden administration do a better job protecting tribal interests.

Tribune News Service

Indianapolis Indians will keep team name and partner with local tribe

The Indianapolis Indians, the Triple-A affiliate of the Pittsburgh Pirates, will not change their team’s nickname, the organization announced

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Sage, sacred to Native Americans, is being used in purification rituals, raising issues of cultural appropriation

White sage, which is sacred to a number of Native American tribes in the southwest United States, has been adopted by both some contemporary Pagans and New Age practitioners for purification rites. As Emily McFarlan Miller reported in a recent Religion News Service article, this is resulting in overharvesting and…

The Conversation

It takes a village: Foster program is a new model of care for indigenous children

LA PLANT, S.D. — Past a gravel road lined with old white wooden buildings is a new eight-acre village dotted with colorful houses, tepees and a sweat lodge.

Tribune News Service

Native Americans grapple with Chiefs Super Bowl celebrations

Native Americans are bracing for what they say are racist traditions as the Super Bowl-winning Kansas City Chiefs embarked Wednesday on a victory lap with a hometown parade

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Post-Roe, Native Americans face even more abortion hurdles

Getting an abortion has long been extremely difficult for Native Americans and has become even tougher since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade

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Interior secretary hires Native American as legal counsel

An attorney who oversaw New Mexico’s Indian Affairs Department has been tapped to serve as a top legal advisor to U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland

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Kansas City Chiefs face new call to drop ‘insulting’ name and symbol

Group gathered outside Arizona stadium to protest the team’s name and the insulting gesture and chant performed by its fans

The Guardian - US

How one Derbyshire museum took initiative in returning Indigenous artefacts

Buxton Museum returned entire collection of Native American and First Nation artefacts to their original communities

The Guardian - UK

Native dancers want Arizona gallery owner held on hate crime

Native American dancers who were the target of a suburban Phoenix gallery owner’s racist rant as they were being filmed for Super Bowl week are pushing for hate crime charges

The Independent UK

Native Americans renew protests of Kansas City Chiefs mascot

As the Kansas City Chiefs return to the Super Bowl, the movement to change their name and logo will be there again

The Independent UK

A 1990 law mandated Native American remains be returned to tribes. Colorado led the charge — but some museums still haven’t followed

DENVER — The remains of Native American ancestors showed up in boxes on the doorsteps of Colorado museums and at yard sales in Denver neighborhoods.

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LOCALIZE IT: States seek safeguards for tribal child welfare

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States push to enshrine protections for tribal children

A handful of U.S. states are considering legislation this year to include provisions of the Indian Child Welfare Act in state law

Tribune News Service

Meet Skylar Little Soldier: Girls wrestler. State champ. National champ. Proud Native American. Olympian?

MINNEAPOLIS — The most highly regarded high school wrestler in Minnesota began her athletic life the way scores of other 6-year-old girls do: as a dancer.

The Conversation

Native Americans have experienced a dramatic decline in life expectancy during the COVID-19 pandemic – but the drop has been in the making for generations

Six and one-half years.

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Interior: $580M headed to 15 tribes to fulfill water rights

The Biden administration on Thursday said 15 Native American tribes will get a total of $580 million this year to fund settlements that ensure access to water that's legally theirs

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Native Americans share trauma of Arizona boarding schools

Native American boarding school survivors of abuse and their descendants shared memories and tears in Arizona on U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's yearlong “Road to Healing” initiative

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One Small Step for Native American Water Rights

The Colorado River Indian Tribes have just won a victory—but there are a lot more controls that need to be lifted.

The Independent UK

First Native American woman in space steps out on spacewalk

The first Native American woman in space has ventured out on her first spacewalk

Tribune News Service

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House Republicans united on border policy focus

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University of Kentucky one of largest holders of Native American remains that haven’t been returned to tribes

LEXINGTON, Ky. — The University of Kentucky is one of the largest holders of Native American remains and artifacts that have not been made available for return to tribes, a report from ProPublica published this week showed.

Inverse

Ancient Siberian DNA upends our understanding of Native American migration

New evidence suggests that Native Americans may have traveled back to North Asia.

The Independent UK

US renames 5 places that used racist slur for a Native woman

The U.S. Department of the Interior has renamed five places in California, North Dakota, Tennessee and Texas that previously included a racist term for a Native American woman

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