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White House Tribal Nations Summit kicks off without Secretary Haaland (December 4, 2023)
President Joe Biden is hosting the White House Tribal Nations Summit this week but a key member of his team won’t be there in person. 
Crow artist Wendy Red Star set for historic debut on National Mall (August 15, 2023)
An artist from the Crow Tribe is making history with a groundbreaking exhibition in the nation’s capital. 
The Republican governor of South Dakota has once again been turned away in court over efforts to set off fireworks in the sacred Black Hills.
Secretary Haaland returns to work after suffering injury (July 18, 2022)
Secretary Deb Haaland is returning to work after suffering a break in her left fibula during a hike in a national park. 
The House Committee on Natural Resources holds a hearing titled “Examining the History of Federal Lands and the Development of Tribal Co-Management.”
Full-time NAGPRA investigator hired for first time in decades (January 31, 2022)
The Biden administration is taking greater steps to enforce the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, more than 30 years after the law went on the books. 
In a sit-down conversation with Underscore.news, Chuck Sams, the country’s first Native American parks director, discusses the role his agency can play in better representing Indigenous people and their stories.
The Department of the Interior is soliciting nominations for a new advisory panel that will examine racist and derogatory place names.
National Park Service finally gains a new leader with first Native director (December 16, 2021)
The National Park Service has a permanent leader for the first time in five years and it’s a historic one thanks to President Joe Biden. 
Charles “Chuck” F. Sams III delivers an opening statement at his confirmation hearing to serve as director of the National Park Service.
Gaylord News: Chickasaw citizen secures top legal post at Department of Agriculture (September 16, 2021)
For the first time in history, an Indigenous woman is overseeing U.S. agriculture law – but Janie Simms Hipp is just the latest in a number of Native people nominated to top posts in the Biden administration. 
President Biden is once again making history with his choice to lead the National Park Service, the federal agency that oversees millions of acres of ancestral tribal territories and treaty lands.
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