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Items taken from Wounded Knee massacre victims reveal monumental task of returning Native American artefacts to their rightful owners

Moccasins, necklaces and ceremonial pipes are carefully laid out as a photographer dutifully snaps pictures under bright studio lights, but it's a key step in a long and painful process for Native Americans.

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Wounded Knee artifacts highlight slow pace of repatriations

Tribes in South Dakota are working with a rural Massachusetts museum to return hundreds of items believed to have been taken from ancestors massacred at Wounded Knee Creek in 1890

The Independent UK

Covington student Nick Sandmann loses defamation case against media outlets over confrontation with Native American activist

Viral video showed Nathan Phillips sang a traditional song and beat a drum as Nick Sandmann stood and smiled at him

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New Study Of South China Ancient Human DNA Hints At Native Americans’ East Asian Roots

A statement from Cell Press quotes study co-author Bing Su as saying: “Ancient DNA technique is a really powerful tool.

Zenger

Tim Giago, trailblazing Native American journalist, dies

Tim Giago, the founder of the first independently owned Native American newspaper in the United States, has died at age 88, his former wife says

The Independent UK

For Once, Cherokee Actor Wes Studi Cast as Romantic Co-star

In Wes Studi’s potent and pioneering acting career, he has played vengeful warriors, dying prisoners and impassioned resistance leaders. For three decades, he has arrestingly crafted wide-ranging portraits of the Native American experience. But one thing he had never done in a movie is give someone a kiss. “I thought…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Blackhawks reveal new programs reaching out to Native Americans

Team CEO Danny Wirtz issued an update on the organization’s plans.

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Overdose deaths surged in 2020, disproportionately impacting Black and Native American people

New data from the CDC show that Black and Native American people were disproportionately impacted by unintentional drug overdoses in 2020.

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Racial gaps in college graduation widened under funding model meant to boost performance

The Research Brief is a short take about interesting academic work.

The Conversation

Localize It: Secretary Haaland begins 'Road to Healing' tour

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Road to Healing tour sheds light on suffering of survivors of Native American boarding schools

Native American tribal elders testify about the hardships they endured at government-backed "Indian" boarding schools, including beatings, whippings, sexual assaults, humiliation and painful nicknames.

ABC News

Haaland tour casts light on Native boarding school abuses

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland will visit Oklahoma on Saturday for the first stop on a yearlong nationwide tour to hear about the painful experiences of Native Americans who were sent to government-backed boarding schools designed to strip them of their cultural identities

The Independent UK

COVID-19 death data shows racial disparities during the pandemic

While non-Hispanic white people accounted for nearly two-thirds of all deaths nationwide, the non-Hispanic Native American and Black populations died at disproportionately higher rates.

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Labeled ‘Hispanic’

Lipan Apaches across Texas are challenging the myth that their tribe was wiped out.

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Experts: US Court fractures decades of Native American law

A U.S. Supreme Court ruling expanding state authority to prosecute some crimes on Native American land is upending decades of law in support of tribal sovereignty

The Independent UK

US Supreme Court rules Oklahoma can prosecute crimes on Native American land

‘The Court’s precedents establish that Indian country is part of a State’s territory,’ Kavanaugh writes as Gorsuch slams majority for ‘ahistorical and mistaken’ interpretation ‘of Indian law’

The Independent UK

1st Native American treasurer to push economic development

The nation’s first Native American U.S. treasurer comes from a line of chiefs who instilled the importance of keeping her tribe healthy and “leaving fooprints” to follow for those who come behind

Tribune News Service

Supreme Court rules Oklahoma can prosecute more tribal crimes

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court expanded Oklahoma’s authority to prosecute crimes against Native Americans in much of the state Wednesday, potentially reducing the need for Congress to spend millions of dollars more in the state for the Justice Department and federal courts.

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US top court expands state power over Native land in Oklahoma

State can prosecute non-Native Americans for crimes committed on tribal land when victim is Native, Supreme Court rules.

The Independent UK

Justices limit 2020 ruling on tribal lands in Oklahoma

The Supreme Court has ruled that Oklahoma can prosecute non-Native Americans for crimes committed on tribal land when the victim is Native American

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Supreme Court rules Oklahoma can prosecute more tribal crimes - Roll Call

The Supreme Court expanded Oklahoma’s authority to prosecute crimes against Native Americans in much of the state Wednesday.

The Independent UK

Harvard returns Standing Bear's tomahawk to Nebraska tribe

Harvard has returned a tomahawk once owned by a pioneering Native American civil rights leader to his tribe

The Independent UK

SF school board rescinds vote to cover up Washington mural

The San Francisco school board has voted to rescind a previous decision to cover up a George Washington campus mural that critics say is racist and degrading in its depiction of Black and Native American people

WEKU

The U.S. is reckoning with its troubled past of Indian boarding schools

Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and tribal leaders are advocating for a congressional commission to examine the impacts of the federal Native American forced-assimilation policy.

WEKU

Marilynn Malerba could soon be the first Native American to serve as U.S. treasurer

Malerba, the lifetime chief of the Mohegan Indian Tribe, would be the first Native woman to have her signature on U.S. currency. She'd also lead the Treasury's new Office of Tribal and Native Affairs.

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