The U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs held a hearing today [on Wednesday] on a variety of tribal water rights settlement bills, including two that impact our region.
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There’s a false narrative that Native Americans are more genetically predisposed to becoming addicted to alcohol than European Americans. New research suggests that simply believing it can be harmful.
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A new report from the Government Accountability Office has found that the federal government isn’t doing enough to tackle the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women. It spotlights a dearth of data and agencies’ failures to meet important deadlines outlined by recently passed legislation.
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When Navajo Nation saw its first cases of COVID-19 in March 2020, Jourdan Bennett-Begaye started a spreadsheet. She’s the managing editor of Indian Country Today, and the spreadsheet was a way to track coronavirus cases across Indigenous communities.
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