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Sovereignty & Nation Building
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Navajo Nation becomes first tribe eligible to run Clean Water Act discharge permits, as court upholds Oklahoma’s ‘Midnight Rider’
EPA has approved the Navajo Nation as the first tribe eligible to apply to run Clean Water Act discharge-permit and sewage-sludge programs. Days earlier,…
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Umatilla tribes take an ownership stake as Cairnspring’s Blue Mountain Mill opens on the reservation
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation leased a Coyote Business Park site to Cairnspring Mills for 50 years and invested $5 million…
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Land owed to First Nations and the law that recognizes their rights are on the ballot in B.C.
British Columbians vote Saturday in a tight race between David Eby’s NDP and Lorne Doerkson’s Conservatives, who promise to repeal DRIPA. A leaked plan…
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Three more Purépecha communities vote to govern themselves as Michoacán’s self-rule movement grows
In eight days, Huecorio, Acachuén and San Andrés Tziróndaro voted to elect their own governments and manage their share of public money directly. On…
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Cherokee Nation puts $470,000 behind a UCLA film exchange to make movies in the Cherokee language
A four-year agreement signed Oct. 17 links the tribe’s Cherokee Film studios in Owasso, Okla., with UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television to…
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New law hands the Crow Tribe control of its long-stalled reservation water system
Signed Oct. 15, the Crow Tribe Water Rights Settlement Amendments Act turns a 2010 settlement’s federally designed water system into a tribal fund for…
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BIA cites ‘pattern of inaction’ in takeover of Red Lake child welfare program; nation appeals, agrees to mediation
A federal notice released to MPR News alleges failures by Red Lake Nation’s child welfare agency. The nation says it is cooperating fully and…
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Editorial: Why Tewatati — journalism that starts from the sovereignty of Indigenous nations
Our inaugural editorial: Tewatati will cover Indigenous nations as governments, peoples and communities with the right to determine their own futures, and hold every…
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Editorial: The trust responsibility is not a line item. Congress should stop treating it like one
The DOGE cuts showed how easily federal promises to tribal nations can be canceled when they are routed through discretionary grants. Congress has the…