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Coronavirus death rate remains high on the Navajo Nation 2 douglas9 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 3 1601
Pandemic Complicates Tribes' Quest For Data Sovereignty 0 TexasTowelie Jul 2020 Jul 2020 0 1206
Why Tribes Should Have the Power to Enforce Strict Coronavirus Policies 1 douglas9 Jul 2020 Jul 2020 6 1466
Engraved medal given to Chief Kesis, a Kickapoo Indian chief of east central Illinois in 1792 2 Beringia Jul 2020 Jul 2020 7 2944
Can anyone recommend a good book on the Ojibwe Nation? My new granddaughter has a 3 Tech Jul 2020 Jul 2020 1 2104
The US Government Has Always Undercounted Native Americans. But COVID Could Make the 2020 Census a D 3 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 8 1847
'Mount Rushmore: Genocide Carved in Stone' by American Indian Genocide Museum 0 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 5 1563
i have received the most extraordinary gift. 18 mopinko Jun 2020 Jun 2020 28 2841
Supporting an Enemy of the People during the Pandemic: Navajo Vice President attends Trump megachurc 6 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 6 2350
State Investigating Hospital With Coronavirus Policy That Profiled Pregnant... 1 Backseat Driver Jun 2020 Jun 2020 7 2212
U.S. suppressing facts of coronavirus spread in Border Patrol, grocery stores, prisons and nursing h 2 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 7 1718
Covid-19 Stalks Large Families in Rural America 1 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 10 1932
The Medicine Clothes that Look at the People, by Johnny Moses, avail Amazon Aug 2020 0 Beringia Jun 2020 Jun 2020 2 1672
Native American Tribes' Pandemic Response Is Hamstrung by Many Inequities 1 douglas9 Jun 2020 Jun 2020 3 1538
Cherokee Nation announces $332 million spending package for COVID-19 aid 0 TexasTowelie May 2020 May 2020 3 1342
Irish Solidarity for Indigenous COVID-19 Relief Continues as U2 Drummer Donates $100,000 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 6 1243
Navajo medical masks were part of White House contracting scam and may not work 2 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 6 1900
Report: 'Grossly inaccurate' data used to divvy up relief funds for tribes 2 Backseat Driver May 2020 May 2020 3 1928
Native Tribe Could Lose Its Land Under New Trump Administration Guidelines 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 8 1667
Navajo Nation residents to be under strictest lockdown yet 4 Eugene May 2020 May 2020 5 1802
Coronavirus has been devastating to the Navajo Nation, and help for a complex fight has been slow 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 4 1433
The Coronavirus Makes Trump's Cruelty Toward Indian Country Even More Deadly 1 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 5 1631
US Native tribes and Ireland's 170-year-old connection is renewed in the pandemic 3 TexasTowelie May 2020 May 2020 4 1679
"Is the Supreme Court Scared of Tribal Sovereignty?" 0 Mike__M May 2020 May 2020 8 1536
Sharing the Love: Our readers respond with food and water for Navajo family 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 10 1369
Doctors Without Borders dispatches team to the Navajo Nation 2 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 23 2036
PINE RIDGE: Oglala Lakota enforce border checkpoints after threat from South Dakota State Governor 20 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 50 5281
Where can I get reliable info about what's going on in Native American groups ? 5 bobbieinok May 2020 May 2020 1 1965
Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus 0 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 8 1515
U.S. Treasury to start distributing $4.8 billion in pandemic funds to tribal governments 2 Eugene May 2020 May 2020 1 1316

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78 years ago, the first Navajo Code Talkers joined the Marine Corps 1 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 7 1190
Valentina Blackhorse, Navajo Pageant Winner With Dreams, Dies at 28 2 douglas9 May 2020 May 2020 10 1799
Native Americans being left out of US coronavirus data and labelled as 'other' 4 Eugene Apr 2020 Apr 2020 4 1661
New Mexico Town Hall: More than one-third of coronavirus cases are Native Americans 0 douglas9 Apr 2020 Apr 2020 0 1505
Navajo coronavirus cases increase to 1,197, one survivor shares his story 1 douglas9 Apr 2020 Apr 2020 3 1547
Land O'Lakes Removing Native American Woman From Packaging After 92 Years 27 SunSeeker Apr 2020 Apr 2020 7 5174
Navajo Nation Coronavirus Rapid Spread: 597 cases, 22 deaths, with 57-hour curfew underway 1 douglas9 Apr 2020 Apr 2020 4 1684
Navajo Nation extends weekend lockdowns as virus cases rise 0 Eugene Apr 2020 Apr 2020 2 1361
Navajoland doctor says supplies and manpower critically needed, National Guard failed to deliver 1 douglas9 Apr 2020 Apr 2020 13 1604
Navajo Nation creates field medical stations as coronavirus cases increase to 148 2 douglas9 Mar 2020 Mar 2020 2 1405
Secretary Of Interior Orders Mashpee Wampanoag Reservation 'Disestablished,' Tribe Says 1 douglas9 Mar 2020 Mar 2020 4 1682
Why are some Native Americans fighting efforts to decriminalize peyote? 1 douglas9 Mar 2020 Mar 2020 2 1289
Tribes say persistent efforts pay off in massive stimulus 1 TexasTowelie Mar 2020 Mar 2020 4 1394
'Huge Victory' for Standing Rock Sioux tribe as federal court rules DAPL permits violated law 8 sandensea Mar 2020 Mar 2020 49 4381
Doctor says supplies needed on Navajo Nation as coronavirus spreads 1 douglas9 Mar 2020 Mar 2020 6 1313
"We Will Take Action to Prevent the Loss of Our Land" 0 Mike__M Mar 2020 Mar 2020 9 2256
Bloomberg owes an apology 2 Mike__M Feb 2020 Feb 2020 0 2965
Johnny Moses, ambassador of Pacific Northwest Indians on Scarefest radio Feb 14 10 pm est 0 Beringia Feb 2020 Feb 2020 2 2290
Cherokees become the first US-based tribe to deposit traditional heirloom seeds in the Arctic vault 3 geardaddy Feb 2020 Feb 2020 13 1898
The Blacklisting of Buffy Sainte Marie 9 douglas9 Nov 2019 Nov 2019 31 5713
My granddaughter is in the 2nd grade 4 lillypaddle Nov 2019 Nov 2019 0 2592
Many Native Americans Can't Get Clean Water, Report Finds 0 douglas9 Nov 2019 Nov 2019 1 1915
Native American Shield Returned to New Mexico From France 2 douglas9 Nov 2019 Nov 2019 5 1492
Women are disappearing and dying in Indian country. We must act.The epidemic of missing and murdere 1 niyad May 2019 Nov 2019 6 1930
Court to rehear law on adoptions of Native American children 0 douglas9 Nov 2019 Nov 2019 2 1416
November is Native American Heritage Month. Critics say Trump is subverting it with a new celebratio 1 douglas9 Nov 2019 Nov 2019 4 1735
California city returns island taken from native tribe in 1860 massacre 1 Eugene Oct 2019 Oct 2019 7 1761
"After 184 years, Cherokees seek House delegate seat promised in treaty" 1 Mike__M Oct 2019 Oct 2019 17 2653
Anyone of Native Ancestry doing anything special today? 5 FirstLight Oct 2019 Oct 2019 3 2003
Columbus Day Is Dying. Indigenous Peoples Day Is the Future. 4 douglas9 Oct 2019 Oct 2019 8 1760

First Americans Continued...

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The Most Unique Golf Course in the World 2 douglas9 Oct 2019 Oct 2019 5 1889
US official: Research finds uranium in Navajo women, babies 0 Eugene Oct 2019 Oct 2019 2 1332
Watch: 'Wounded Knee Incident 1973 Native American Genocide' 2 douglas9 Sep 2019 Sep 2019 6 1903
Cherokee Nation Moves to Get Delegate in Congress 5 douglas9 Aug 2019 Sep 2019 4 2058
Joy Harjo named US Poet Laureate, first Native American so honored 0 Bradshaw3 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 3 2423
Army Conducts Third Disinterment of Native Americans at Carlisle Barracks 1 douglas9 Jun 2019 Jun 2019 4 2097
WWII-era Navajo Code Talker Fleming Begaye Sr. dies at 97 3 Eugene May 2019 May 2019 5 2131
National Day of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women May 5 1 douglas9 May 2019 May 2019 3 1803
Sen. Mike Rounds requests audit of Indian Health Services 0 TexasTowelie May 2019 May 2019 0 1690
A Native American woman's brutal murder could lead to a life-saving law 2 niyad May 2019 May 2019 3 1738
Tribes denounce North Dakota ID law in congressional hearing 0 Eugene Apr 2019 Apr 2019 2 1825
For many Native Americans, embracing LGBT members is a return to the past 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 2 1761
3 Native American inmates win right to long hair in Texas 1 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1935
Native American child welfare case heads to appeals court 0 Eugene Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 1809
Elder says medicine pouch 'desecrated' by Halifax airport security despite asking for X-ray scan 2 icymist Mar 2019 Mar 2019 3 2177
Violence Against Native American Women 0 niyad Feb 2019 Feb 2019 3 1732
Indigenous struggle is key to a Green New Deal 1 guillaumeb Jan 2019 Feb 2019 4 2028
It's about elimination: the Covington Catholic student incident 2 Mike__M Jan 2019 Jan 2019 15 2448
So, who are "we the people"? 1 Mike__M Jan 2019 Jan 2019 9 1848
The US is still not ready to look at the ugly racism against Native Americans 0 niyad Jan 2019 Jan 2019 5 1760
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