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NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (November 27, 2023)
Submit your nominations for NAFOA’s 16th Annual Leadership Awards. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (November 6, 2023)
Eleven days left until appropriations funding runs out for Indian Country programs. 
Cronkite News: Tribes share frustrations with infrastructure funding (October 31, 2023)
Promises of federal funding remain just that – promises – for smaller tribes for whom the money is inaccessible because of bureaucratic and financial hurdles. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (October 30, 2023)
Boo — only 18 days until funding for Indian Country programs runs out. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (October 16, 2023)
We’re already looking forward to the next conference. Be sure to save the date! 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (October 10, 2023)
Every day is Indigenous Peoples’ Day. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (October 2, 2023)
It’s #NAFOAFall23 Week! More than 800 tribal leaders, financial professionals, and industry experts are in attendance in Arizona. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (September 25, 2023)
The government may be shutting down, but NOT #NAFOAFall23! 
Montana Free Press: Blackfeet Nation protects sacred area from drilling (September 14, 2023)
A settlement agreement with the Blackfeet Nation marks the end of a 40-year energy development fight in a sacred area of Montana. 
The cancellation of oil leases in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is renewing political clashes among Native people in Alaska.
The organizer of the Santa Fe Indian Market is once again thanking a sponsor of the popular event amid ongoing controversy over the involvement of one of the world’s largest energy companies.
Indian Market sponsorship draws criticism for ties to energy industry (September 6, 2023)
The organization that puts on the largest juried Indian art market in the world continues to face criticism on social media after thanking a sponsor of the popular event. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (September 5, 2023)
A new season brings new updates for Indian Country. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (August 28, 2023)
Summer is ending soon. Have you registered for the Fall Conference? 
More than 800 tribal leaders and finance professional in Indian Country are in the nation’s capital for NAFOA’s 41st annual conference.
White Earth Nation responds to verdict in sexual harassment case (April 11, 2023)
The White Earth Nation says it is developing an ethics code after hearing a “litany of concerns” about a prominent figure who has benefited from the tribe’s name for more than three decades. 
Native America Calling: Alaska’s Donlin Gold Mine project (April 10, 2023)
A proposed gold mine in southwest Alaska has been promising riches for investors and Alaska Native workers alike. 
From growing hemp to fighting pipelines, Winona LaDuke has launched a large number of organizations, businesses and initiatives. Here’s a look at some of her environmental efforts.
Disgraced environmental figure Winona LaDuke and her inner circle are striking a defiant tone as the organization she has led for 30 years seeks to recover from a $750,000 verdict in a sexual harassment and retaliation case.
The highest court in the land is once again taking up a case that will determine whether the United States lives up to its promises to tribal nations.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (February 6, 2023)
Our “5 Things” Newsletter gives you the info you need to start your week well! 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (January 30, 2023)
NAFOA stays on top of the news so you always start your week informed and ready. 
Native America Calling: The problem with lithium (January 25, 2023)
A lithium mine in Nevada is considered an environmental and cultural affront to tribal nations. 
Cronkite News: Solar power plant under development in Arizona (January 23, 2023)
Salt River Project has partnered with a private renewable energy company to open its largest solar plant in Arizona. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (January 3, 2023)
We’re hitting the ground running this new year!
Montana Free Press: Blackfeet Nation continues fight to protect sacred lands (December 12, 2022)
An area sacred to the Blackfeet Nation remains under threat from energy development after a federal judge’s ruling. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (December 5, 2022)
NAFOA values our community—thank you for being a part of it. 
PolitiFact: Republican candidate tells tall tale about tribal governments (October 26, 2022)
Republican Arizona Corporation Commission candidate Nick Myers claims financial assistance to tribal nations is “foreign aid.” PolitiFact checks the facts. 
Underscore.news: Yakama Nation celebrates return of sacred land (October 18, 2022)
An 1855 treaty with the U.S. government ensured one of the Yakama Nation’s most important sites would remain part of its homelands. 
Native America Calling: Tribes respond to Biden’s clean energy challenge (September 28, 2022)
Some tribes are already finding economic opportunities with clean energy. 
Tribal leaders are looking forward to addressing climate change and improving economic conditions in their communities through the Inflation Reduction Act.
Harold Frazier: Honor sacred promises to our Native Sovereign Nations (September 13, 2022)
Mni Wiconi means water is life, and no one will silence our Native peoples. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (August 29, 2022)
NAFOA works to provide advocacy and resources for all of Indian Country. 
Native America Calling: How the Inflation Reduction Act helps Earth (August 23, 2022)
The newly-signed Inflation Reduction Act brings millions of dollars in new investments for tribal nations. 
The newly-signed Inflation Reduction Act will bring more than $720 million to American Indian, Alaska Native and Native Hawaiian communities, according to the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (August 15, 2022)
NAFOA stays on top of the news so you always start your week informed and ready. 
Democrats are claiming an election season achievement with the passage of a massive bill that includes hundreds of millions of dollars in climate and energy investments in Indian Country.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (July 25, 2022)
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NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (July 11, 2022)
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Once again, Indigenous communities like mine are treated as a commodity to be extracted rather than human beings in a natural world, both deserving of respect and protection.
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