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KFF Health News: Tribes still dealing with years-long syphilis outbreak (November 13, 2024)
According to the Great Plains Tribal Epidemiology Center, syphilis rates among Native people in its region soared by 1,865 percent from 2020 to 2022. 
Native America Calling: Historic steps to return tribal land (June 26, 2024)
Efforts continue at the national and local level to return land to tribes, the original stewards. 
VIDEO: H.R.1240, the Winnebago Land Transfer Act (June 24, 2024)
The U.S. Senate considers H.R.1240, the Winnebago Land Transfer Act, on June 20, 2024. 
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a business meeting on May 1, 2024.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a business meeting on May 1, 2024.
Witness list and testimony for Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hearing (February 8, 2024)
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is taking testimony on five bills. 
VIDEO: H.R.1240, the Winnebago Land Transfer Act (February 6, 2024)
The U.S. House of Representatives considers H.R.1240, the Winnebago Land Transfer Act, on February 5, 2024. 
House takes up tribal homelands and Udall Foundation bills (February 5, 2024)
The U.S. House of Representatives is set to approve two bills of interest in Indian Country. 
Senate Committee on Indian Affairs set for first hearing of new year (February 5, 2024)
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is hosting its first hearing of 2024. 
Native America Calling: Historic broadband investment in Indian Country (October 22, 2023)
Tribes are getting their applications in for funds from the second round of the Tribal Broadband Connectivity Program. 
“There is now a playbook where the authority is going to continue to be whittled away,” a state prosecutor said of new restrictions on prosecutorial discretion.
House committee advances slate of Indian Country bills (June 14, 2023)
Bipartisanship seemed to be on rare display on Capitol Hill as lawmakers advanced a trio of bills benefiting Indian Country. 
Navajo citizen Hoskie Benally named to National Council on Disability (October 3, 2022)
Hoskie Benally, Jr., a citizen of the Navajo Nation, has been named to the National Council on Disability by President Joe Biden. 
Native America Calling: The Menu (July 29, 2022)
Today on Native America Calling, Andi Murphy hosts the Indigenous food show The Menu. 
Reconciliation Rising: An Interview with Lance Foster (July 11, 2022)
The Iowa Tribe has reclaimed 400 acres of ancestral territory. Learn more from Vice Chairman Lance Foster on Reconciliation Rising. 
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. 
Tribes and their advocates are studying ways to strengthen state laws as the Indian Child Welfare Act remains in limbo in the courts.
President Biden nominates another Native woman to federal bench (December 15, 2021)
President Joe Biden continues to make history with his judicial nominations, announcing another Native woman to serve on the federal bench. 
Native children continue to be overrepresented in state foster care systems, taken from their homes at high rates.
Longtime leader of Ponca Tribe resigns post amid conflicts with council (November 3, 2021)
“I’m looking at this as an opportunity for growth for me,” Larry Wright Jr. said after stepping down as chair of the Ponca Tribe. 
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States hosts a legislative hearing on October 5, 2021.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States is getting back to work with a legislative hearing.
Photos: Lakota children spend final morning away from homelands (July 19, 2021)
The Indian community came together in Sioux City, Iowa, to welcome nine Lakota children who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school. 
Nine Lakota children began their last morning away from their homelands at the base of a bluff overlooking the Missouri River.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts prayer services in Sioux City, Iowa, for the return of nine Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school.
After a long process driven by youth, nine Lakota children who died at one of the most infamous institutions of the Indian boarding school era are finally returning home.
Oklahoma’s first Native-owned brewing company, inspired by the recipes of the owner’s father, will open an independent location this summer.
Sarah Young Bear-Brown, a citizen of the Meskwaki Nation, addresses the #ShutDownDAPL and #StopLine3 rally in Washington, D.C.
Five years since the fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline became a worldwide movement, and four years after tribes and their allies took to the streets of D.C. in protest, Lakota youth returned to the nation’s capital.
Tribal corporation expands on investment in historic district (March 10, 2021)
The latest feather in the cap of a thriving tribal corporation is an eclectic collection of historic buildings in one of the largest cities in the region. 
A federal appeals court won’t stop oil from flowing through the Dakota Access Pipeline even though the government acted “unlawfully” in approving it.
As they have for the past 17 years, Native men and women stood atop a windswept hill overlooking the Missouri River. They prayed for the Native children lost to the state welfare system.
Photos: Memorial March to Honor Our Lost Children (November 27, 2020)
The 18th Annual Memorial March to Honor Our Lost Children took place on Wednesday, November 25, 2020, in Sioux City, Iowa. 
Supreme Court opens new session amid COVID-19 and controversy (October 6, 2020)
Amid growing uncertainty due to COVID-19, the U.S. Supreme Court opened its latest term as Republicans remain intent on confirming a conservative judge with virtually no experience in Indian law to the nation’s highest judicial body.
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