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Lac du Flambeau
ProPublica: Lac du Flambeau Band faces class action lawsuit for high-interest loans (August 13, 2024)
A Wisconsin tribe built a lending empire on high-interest lending, relying on sovereignty to avoid state loan laws.
Wind Farm
Native America Calling: In the rush to build green energy, tribes sometimes lose (January 24, 2024)
Tribal cultural resources are being threatened by growing demand for renewable energy projects.
Navajo Nation at U.S. Supreme Court
ProPublica: History repeats itself with state opposition to tribal water rights (October 17, 2023)
Government records shed new light on how state opposition hindered tribes from claiming their rightful shares of the Colorado River.
High Desert Trail in Gallup, New Mexico
Native America Calling: Hope for reducing Native student expulsions (August 14, 2023)
A pilot program in New Mexico aims to cut down on the high number of Native student expulsions.
High Desert Trail in Gallup, New Mexico
ProPublica: Native students face harsher discipline in New Mexico (January 2, 2023)
In New Mexico, Native students are expelled far more often than any other group and at least four times as often as white students.
navajonationschool
Lessons Lost: Indian Country students still waiting on internet (September 29, 2020)
Students at Bureau of Indian Education operated schools started classes without adequate technology, sometimes sharing a single computer among siblings, because the agency disbursed funding late and failed to purchase equipment in time.
byronmallott
Anchorage Daily News: Native woman comes forward about misconduct (September 14, 2020)
In 2018, Jody Potts was the target of misconduct from then-Lt. Gov. Byron Mallott. Two days later, he resigned, but the details of what happened have never been publicly told until now.
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