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Massachusetts Tribal Casino Odds Improve Under President Biden Administration

A long-delayed tribal casino project in Massachusetts might have better odds of coming to realization under President Joe Biden’s administration. Rep. Deb Haaland, nominee to head the Interior Department, is seen here with then-candidate Joe Biden kneeling playfully at an event in DC. A tribal casino plan in Massachusetts could receive formal approval under her[...]

January 22, 2021

Progress made on Little Shell Tribe’s new health clinic in Great Falls

President Trump has spent the last few days asking his friends, aides, and associates if they would like pardons — even those who are not facing any charges, a senior administration official told The Washington Post.In one case, the official said, Trump offered a pardon to a person who declined the chance at clemency, saying[...]

January 21, 2021

Cowlitz Indian Tribe gets grant to survey beaver habitat

A beaver in eastern Washington. The Cowlitz Indian Tribe’s beaver re-establishment project got a federal boost this year, as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service chose the tribe as a 2020 Tribal Wildlife Grant recipient. The approximately $177,000 grant will allow the Tribe’s Natural Resources Department to survey habitat segments within the tributary sub-basins of[...]

January 21, 2021

How a tiny California tribe out-dealt Trump over their shared casino

Donald Trump and his girlfriend (and future wife) Melania Knauss greet guests during a New Year’s event at Mar-a-Lago on Dec. 31, 2000. Donald Trump hated tribal casinos until his face was splashed all over one. In 1993, when the most famous thing about him was his real estate empire, Trump was called to testify[...]

January 21, 2021

Fighting the Good Fight to Protect the Great Lakes

Fighting the Good Fight to Protect the Great Lakes By Jessica A. Knoblauch The Bay Mills Indian Community fights efforts to extend the life of a dangerous oil pipeline that runs through one of the world’s most sensitive ecosystems. When Jacques LeBlanc Jr. was a little boy, his dad would wake him up before sunrise[...]

January 21, 2021

Oglala Sioux Tribe approves of Biden killing Keystone XL Pipeline

The 1,700-mile pipeline would carry roughly 800,000 barrels of oil a day from Alberta to the Texas Gulf Coast, passing through Montana, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas and Oklahoma. RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – Hours into his presidency, President Joe Biden revoked a presidential permit for the Keystone XL oil pipeline. And the Oglala Sioux Tribe[...]

January 21, 2021

Department of Energy Announces Tribal Grant Relief Due to COVID-19

BROWNING, MT – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Deputy Secretary Mark W. Menezes announced the reduction of cost share obligations for financial assistance awards for Tribes and tribal communities struggling from the financial impacts of COVID-19. The Deputy Secretary made determinations on 28 cost-share reduction requests for pending or existing awards totaling more[...]

January 21, 2021

American Indian College Fund Receives $600,000 W.K. Kellogg Foundation Grant

American Indian College Fund photograph DENVER — The American Indian College Fund received a two-year, $600,000 grant from The W.K. Kellogg Foundation, to help tribal college communities strengthen and expand the pipeline for Native teachers through its Indigenous Early Childhood Education Systemic Engagement and ECE Learning in Native American Communities program. Early childhood education can[...]

January 21, 2021

Legal battles continue with Kings Mountain casino construction underway

KINGS MOUNTAIN, N.C. (FOX 46 CHARLOTTE) – The legal back and forth about a casino in Kings Mountain is ramping up. A judge is allowing an expedited hearing on whether the project will continue and as that happens, people who live near that site are preparing to leave. Not too long ago, the stretch I-85[...]

January 21, 2021

Final beam placed on Wilma P. Mankiller Health Center expansion project

Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. on Jan. 15 joins employees of the Wilma P. Mankiller Health Center in Stilwell to sign the final steel beam to be hoisted onto the building’s expansion project. COURTESY The final steel beam of the Wilma P. Mankiller Health Center expansion project was hoisted into place on Jan. 15, completing[...]

January 21, 2021

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