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Trump Administration Announces BIE’s New Construction on Its School Campuses

Grant will replace outdated facilities as part of the historic Great American Outdoors Act WASHINGTON —Thanks to the Great American Outdoors Act (GAOA), the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) will receive five percent of the annual funds to reduce or eliminate deferred maintenance and deficiencies at its schools. Many Farms High School and Cheyenne-Eagle Butte[...]

January 21, 2021

Building Relationships with Tribes And Operating On Reservation Lands: Lessons From FMC V. Shoshone

Building Relationships With Tribes And Operating On Reservation Lands: Lessons From FMC v. Shoshone On 11 January 2021, the United States Supreme Court declined a petition to review the Ninth Circuit’s decision in FMC Corporation v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes . In that case, the Ninth Circuit upheld a tribal court decision requiring FMC Corporation (FMC), a[...]

January 21, 2021

Colville tribal members file lawsuit disputing ‘illegal’ taxation on fuel sales

Editor INCHELIUM, WA Two Colville tribal members have filed a lawsuit alleging “illegal” taxation on fuel sales by the council, as well as a refund of back taxes collected by the Tribe. Zachary Love, an attorney from the Spokane Valley firm of ZEL & Associates, is representing Michael Finley, owner of Inchelium Short-Stop, and Gene[...]

January 21, 2021

Ho-Chunk executive set to join Biden administration

WINNEBAGO, Neb. — An executive with Ho-Chunk, Inc., has has been tapped to join the Biden administration’s Department of the Interior. Bledsoe Downes Ann Marie Bledsoe Downes, a member of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska and the executive vice president of community impact and engagement with Ho-Chunk, has been named Biden’s Deputy Solicitor for Indian[...]

January 21, 2021

Hoopa Valley Tribe awarded $8.2 million grant for much needed broadband initiative

The Hoopa Valley Tribe announced Jan. 20 it was awarded an $8.2 million grant from the California Advanced Services Fund for its Hoopa Valley Broadband Initiative. According to tribal officials the Hoopa rural, remote, 92,000-acre reservation is the largest in California and is critically underserved.{/p} HOOPA, Calif. — The Hoopa Valley Tribe announced Wednesday it[...]

January 21, 2021

Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians receives grants for climate and clean energy projects

LAKEPORT, Calif. – As part of a statewide effort to address climate change, the Scotts Valley Energy Co. – a business enterprise of the Scotts Valley Band of Pomo Indians – was awarded a Tribal Government Challenge Planning Grant to create a bioenergy feasibility toolkit to assist other tribes and businesses in determining energy resiliency[...]

January 21, 2021

Tribes want Biden to balance technology and cultural issues in renewable energy projects

President-elect Joe Biden has pledged that his administration will prioritize renewable energy to reduce greenhouse gases and slow or stop the rapid warming of the planet. He has also promised to give tribes a greater voice in managing public lands with cultural significance to tribal communities. The potential for conflict arises because the same massive[...]

January 19, 2021

Wisconsin tribal school’s science project returns from space

HAYWARD, Wis. — When the SpaceX Cargo Dragon 2 ship returned to Earth from the International Space Station this week, it carried onboard a very special package for a tribal school in Wisconsin — fish eggs. A team of eighth-grade students from the Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe School in Hayward had sent the rainbow trout[...]

January 19, 2021

Ho-Chunk woman Amy DeLong rose from poverty to be one of 3,400 Indigenous physicians in the US

BARABOO – Born to teenage parents who divorced when she was 10 and watching her mom struggle to overcome poverty and alcoholism, Dr. Amy DeLong had long battled self-doubt to find a place in this world. She is a member of the Ho-Chunk Nation and had felt, at first, that the only reason why she[...]

January 19, 2021

Lehigh’s College of Health Establishes Institute for Indigenous Studies

Jordyn Gunville, a member of the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe and a research scientist at the Institute for Indigenous Studies, provides health education information to two Native community members at a pow wow hosted by the American Indian Health Research and Education Alliance in 2016. Credit: American Indian Health Research and Education Alliance Christine Makosky[...]

January 19, 2021

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