10 - 04 - 21 Headlines

- Today kicks off the first day of the White House Tribal Nations Summit.
- Well, Tribes are getting more than 73-million dollars in grants from the Department of Housing and Urban Development... to help them meet the needs exposed by the pandemic.
- Honoring Native warriors who served … the head of the Department of Veterans Affairs paid his respects during last Thursday’s veterans day, at an event at the National Museum of the American Indian.
- Well, go dust off your moccasins!  

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A slice of our Indigenous world (Nov. 15, 2021)

ICT newscast headlines for today:

- Legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives is aiming to extend a year end deadline for spending CARES funding by Alaska Native corporations and tribes. 
- In eastern Washington state, work is being stopped after ancestral remains were discovered at a construction site.
- In Minnesota, the White Earth Nation could be the center of a big renewable energy project.
- A new report by the Ms. Foundation for Women is calling out the lack of philanthropic investment in Indigenous women and girls.
- A school in Utah is naming a Native student to homecoming royalty for the first time in its history.

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A slice of our Indigenous world (Dec. 13, 2021)

What has the Biden administration done in its first year for Indian Country? Regular contributor Holly Cook Macarro, Red Lake Band of Ojibwe, reflects more.

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Holly Cook Macarro on Joe Biden's First Year in Office

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A slice of our Indigenous world (September 9, 2022)

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The Seneca Nation is celebrating a legal win. The tribe challenged an agreement from 1954 that granted the state permission to build part of the New York Thruway on 300 acres of tribal land.

The tribe says the land deal for the major highway was illegal and that they were pressured to make the move at the time. A federal appeals court rejected the state’s request, which means the claim should now be heard in court. Seneca Nation President Rickey Armstrong, Sr. hailed the ruling. 

The Cayuga Nation is celebrating a landback victory. The Bureau of Indian Affairs has approved the nation's application for 101 acres of land to be transferred into trust. The application was filed in April 2005, making it the longest pending trust application before the BIA.

This year’s American Indian Higher Education Consortium basketball championship marks its first National Tournament since the pandemic. ICT’s Vincent Moniz was at the event to cover what many are calling the Tribal Final Four.

A new group will soon be inducted to the National Native American Hall of Fame. Mark Trahant is among the new class. He’s a veteran journalist and ICT’s Editor-at-Large. The other hall of famers include Native rights advocate LaNada War Jack, Former Quinault Nation President Joe DeLaCruz, novelist Leslie Marmon Silko, attorney Dick Trudell and actor Will Sampson.

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Michael Bird, Kewa Pueblo, is the public health program director for the Indian Health Council

Michael Bird acknowledges the history tries have with pandemics at the hands of immigrants and later the U.S. government. "We've been dealing with infectious diseases from day one once Europeans set foot on this homeland."

He points to the lack of federal funding despite being spelled out in treaty rights. "Indian Health Services has been funded, historically, at 50 percent of the level of needed," Bird said.

"We also are aware of the fact that, more funding per capita goes to the care of federal prisoners than to Indian people."

"All of us are scrambling. We're still behind the curve in terms of we've never been resourced to meet the needs prior to this," said Bird. "Indian people are largely invisible. People don't see us. They don't know us. They don't interact with us. People don't feel like they need to respond to our needs because they don't hear from us. It's a lot easier to ignore us than other communities who have representation"

Bird says: "We will survive this."

Also on the Indian Country Today newscast, Washington Editor Jourdan Bennett-Begaye reports updated COVID-19 numbers in Indian Country.

The host of the program is Patty Talahongva, executive producer of Indian Country Today.

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