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My best friend's son has just published his new book if any of you are interested: 5 catbyte Jan 2021 Jan 2021 19 4383
Petition to urge President-Elect Biden to name Rep. Deb Haaland first Native Interior Secretary 2 catbyte Nov 2020 Jan 2021 2 2902
130 years ago Dec 29, 1890 Masscre of Wounded Knee (tweet thread ) 4 lunasun Dec 2020 Dec 2020 5 3529
Indigenous Michiganders Led the Charge in Shutting Down Line 5 1 catbyte Dec 2020 Dec 2020 2 2663
Board on Geographic Names Approves "Arikara Creek" for Often Dry Run Near Pierre 0 TexasTowelie Dec 2020 Dec 2020 1 1952
Chief Shingwauk, 1773, Sault St Marie, Canada 3 Beringia Nov 2020 Nov 2020 5 4739
Native Cinema Showcase: Streaming Best Native Films Nov. 18 -- 27, 2020 3 douglas9 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 5 2916
Celebration dance (tweet) and some numbers 0 lunasun Nov 2020 Nov 2020 3 1955
Arizona flips! Navajos contribute to historic shift 8 douglas9 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 37 3781
White House COVID-19 exposed staff met with Navajo Council, dedicated Navajo school where there was 3 douglas9 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 2 2222
Lpez: The Four C's Americans (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, & Creek) 2 douglas9 Nov 2020 Nov 2020 6 2123
Texas Leads Fight To End Protections For Native American Children 3 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 7 2083
Bison Return To Lakota Reservation In South Dakota For The First Time Since 1870s 1 catbyte Oct 2020 Oct 2020 16 2054
Navajo elderly turned away in cold, waiting for hardship applications 5 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 10 2362
Have read of the Navajo 'Healing Way'. Is it possible that one could be done for US re Trump? 10 bobbieinok Jul 2020 Oct 2020 7 4341
Coronavirus vaccine trials halted as more volunteers become ill, Lummi Nation withdraws from AstraZe 3 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 9 2668
Happy Indigenous People's Day from Minneapolis! 1 geardaddy Oct 2020 Oct 2020 5 1871
Native American Tribe Gets Early Access to SpaceX's Starlink and Says It's Fast 0 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 6 2042
A Native Nation's Impossible Fight to Stop Trump's Wall From Dividing Its Land 0 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 6 1708
'We Are Losing Parts of Our Culture': Virus Tears Through Choctaw Community 0 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 6 1677
U.S. EPA seizes control of Oklahoma Indian lands for hazardous dumping and fracking 4 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 19 2208
Alarmed by Scope of Wildfires, Officials Turn to Native Americans for Help 1 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 13 1937
EPA Grants Oklahoma Control Over Tribal Lands 9 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 6 2917
Lpez: American Diaspora (The Campaign to Drive Native Americans into Reservations) 0 douglas9 Oct 2020 Oct 2020 3 1488
The Federal Government Promised Native American Students Computers and Internet. Many Are Still Wait 3 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 2 2215
Tribes see ballot collection as a lifeline in Indian Country 0 Eugene Sep 2020 Sep 2020 2 1580
Members of Congress, Tribes, State Governments call to shut down Dakota Access Pipeline 0 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 5 1556
Stand off with Border Patrol, National Park Service ends in scuffle with Indigenous-led demonstrator 0 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 0 1616
U.S. House Passes Savanna's Act, Moves to be Signed by President 0 sl8 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 13 1758
Navajo President blocks Dine' College professor from questioning COVID-19 vaccine risks 2 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 2 2121

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Sioux Tribes Sue South Dakota Over Failure to Provide Voter Registration 8 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 42 3920
Navajos already used in controversial coronavirus plasma transfusions, next vaccine experiments, the 2 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 3 1903
Navajos to be used in coronavirus vaccine experiments by Johns Hopkins and drug company 3 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 3 2252
Standing Rock Court Victory: Excessive force lawsuit against Morton County moves forward 1 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 3 1865
Petition! Drop the charges against NDN Collective President & CEO Nick Tilsen 1 hermetic Sep 2020 Sep 2020 3 1789
Indigenous Online Film Festival: Watch Now! 5 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 6 2363
Western Shoshone Ian Zabarte 'The Most Bombed Nation on Earth' 12 douglas9 Sep 2020 Sep 2020 56 4913
Kansas City Chiefs ban fans from wearing headdresses and face paint 0 Eugene Aug 2020 Aug 2020 3 1745
Native Americans delivering innovative relief with CARES Act funds 0 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 1 1704
Federal agency to reopen 53 Native American schools despite coronavirus fears 1 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 4 1922
The Federal Government Gives Native Students an Inadequate Education, and Gets Away With It 0 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 6 1715
Navajos desperate for food and water.Navajo Council wants $24 million of virus relief funds casino 2 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 20 2289
How Native Tribes Started Winning at the Supreme Court 2 douglas9 Aug 2020 Aug 2020 11 2120
How Our Indian Country Flattened the Curve 1 douglas9 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 9 1942
Why Central Michigan 'Chippewas' nickname is OK with local tribe, NCAA 2 safeinOhio Jul 2020 Jul 2020 5 2535
Coronavirus death rate remains high on the Navajo Nation 2 douglas9 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 3 2114
Pandemic Complicates Tribes' Quest For Data Sovereignty 0 TexasTowelie Jul 2020 Jul 2020 0 1587
Why Tribes Should Have the Power to Enforce Strict Coronavirus Policies 1 douglas9 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 6 1919
Engraved medal given to Chief Kesis, a Kickapoo Indian chief of east central Illinois in 1792 2 Beringia Jul 2020 Jul 2020 7 3501
Can anyone recommend a good book on the Ojibwe Nation? My new granddaughter has a 3 Tech Jul 2020 Jul 2020 1 2646
The US Government Has Always Undercounted Native Americans. But COVID Could Make the 2020 Census a D 3 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 8 2386
'Mount Rushmore: Genocide Carved in Stone' by American Indian Genocide Museum 0 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 5 1944
i have received the most extraordinary gift. 18 mopinko Jun 2020 Jun 2020 28 4468
Supporting an Enemy of the People during the Pandemic: Navajo Vice President attends Trump megachurc 6 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 6 3126
State Investigating Hospital With Coronavirus Policy That Profiled Pregnant... 1 Backseat Driver Jun 2020 Jun 2020 7 2733
U.S. suppressing facts of coronavirus spread in Border Patrol, grocery stores, prisons and nursing h 2 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 7 2191
Covid-19 Stalks Large Families in Rural America 1 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 10 2382
The Medicine Clothes that Look at the People, by Johnny Moses, avail Amazon Aug 2020 0 Beringia Jun 2020 Jun 2020 2 2105
Native American Tribes' Pandemic Response Is Hamstrung by Many Inequities 1 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 3 2007
Cherokee Nation announces $332 million spending package for COVID-19 aid 0 TexasTowelie May 2020 May 2020 3 1711

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Irish Solidarity for Indigenous COVID-19 Relief Continues as U2 Drummer Donates $100,000 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 6 1618
Navajo medical masks were part of White House contracting scam and may not work 2 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 6 2422
Report: 'Grossly inaccurate' data used to divvy up relief funds for tribes 2 Backseat Driver May 2020 May 2020 3 2500
Native Tribe Could Lose Its Land Under New Trump Administration Guidelines 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 8 2040
Navajo Nation residents to be under strictest lockdown yet 4 Eugene May 2020 May 2020 5 2379
Coronavirus has been devastating to the Navajo Nation, and help for a complex fight has been slow 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 4 1817
The Coronavirus Makes Trump's Cruelty Toward Indian Country Even More Deadly 1 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 5 2156
US Native tribes and Ireland's 170-year-old connection is renewed in the pandemic 3 TexasTowelie May 2020 May 2020 4 2261
"Is the Supreme Court Scared of Tribal Sovereignty?" 0 Mike__M May 2020 May 2020 8 1964
Sharing the Love: Our readers respond with food and water for Navajo family 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 10 1730
Doctors Without Borders dispatches team to the Navajo Nation 2 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 23 2530
PINE RIDGE: Oglala Lakota enforce border checkpoints after threat from South Dakota State Governor 20 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 50 6870
Where can I get reliable info about what's going on in Native American groups ? 5 bobbieinok May 2020 May 2020 1 2667
Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 8 1863
U.S. Treasury to start distributing $4.8 billion in pandemic funds to tribal governments 2 Eugene May 2020 May 2020 1 1789
78 years ago, the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marine Corps 1 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 7 1691
Valentina Blackhorse, Navajo Pageant Winner With Dreams, Dies at 28 2 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 10 2296
Native Americans being left out of US coronavirus data and labelled as 'other' 4 Eugene Apr 2020 Apr 2020 4 2316
New Mexico Town Hall: More than one-third of coronavirus cases are Native Americans 0 douglas9 Apr 2020 Apr 2020 0 1887
Navajo coronavirus cases increase to 1,197, one survivor shares his story 1 douglas9 Apr 2020 Apr 2020 3 1988
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