"A new program launched by South Dakota State University in partnership with the Indian University of North America focuses on ecosystem sustainability from a Lakota perspective."...
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Smithsonian Magazine: Why Are Jim Thorpe’s Olympic Records Still Not Recognized?
:It’s been 100 years since Jim Thorpe dashed through the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, and we’re still chasing him. Greatest-evers are always hard to quantify, but Thorpe is especially so, a laconic, evasive passerby who defies Olympic idealizing. A breakfast of...
Newsday: Pink Floyd’s Roger Waters Helping Fund Shinnecock Nation in Billboard Battle Against the State
"As the state doubles down in its effort to scuttle the Shinnecock Indian Nation’s digital billboard project on Sunrise Highway, it's drawing the ire of a Southampton resident who is providing moral and financial support to the tribe: Pink Floyd co-founder Roger...
The Harvard Gazette: For the First Time, a Native American May Oversee U.S. Policies on Tribal Nations
"If she wins Senate approval, Democratic Rep. Deb Haaland of New Mexico will become the first Native American Cabinet secretary. But perhaps more importantly, as secretary of the Interior, the enrolled member of the Pueblo of Laguna would also become the first Native...
Reuters: U.S. Interior Department to Consult with Tribal Leaders on Climate, Covid-19
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. Interior Department will start consultations with Native American tribal leaders next month on COVID-19, economic security, racial justice and climate change, part of efforts by President Joe Biden to get more tribal input in federal...
Native News Online: Joe Biden Adds Several Native Americans to Administration
"In his first week in office, President Joe Biden appointed three Indigenous members to his roster, including attorneys Robert Anderson (Boise Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe) and Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes (Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska) to the Interior...