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U.S. federal agencies and sovereign tribal agencies often work together on shared goals like managing wildfire, improving wildlife habitat and other issues. A new repository collects a number of these co-stewardship - or sovereign-to-sovereign - agreements in an effort to help tribes and others better understand their possible uses.
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For decades, Native Americans were sent off to boarding schools run by the federal government or religious groups. They were stripped of cultural ties and forced to assimilate into an American lifestyle.
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For years, drought and development in the West have caused water shortages for Native American tribes. Now, a new institute aims to give tribes resources and training to advocate for their water rights.
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Dallas Goldtooth, the acclaimed Indigenous activist, comedian and actor, just gave the keynote address at a Harvard conference exploring the university’s history of enslavement of Native peoples and its role in colonization. At times irreverent and hilarious, and at others unsparing and sincere, Goldtooth shared his thoughts on how accountability for institution’s like Harvard could be achieved.
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The federal government is spending another $327 million to help fulfill water rights settlements with Native American tribes, including several in the Mountain West.
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Idaho Matters sits down with Beth Piatote to talk about her new book "The Beadworkers: Stories."
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The federal government is taking new steps to preserve the oral history of Native American boarding schools that were run by governments and churches.
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New data shows a dramatic rise in the U.S. suicide rate, especially for Native Americans and Alaska Natives.
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A nonprofit has released a new interactive map that sheds more light on the history of boarding schools that traumatized Indigenous children in the U.S. and Canada for decades.
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The Northern Cheyenne Medicinal Garden at the Sheridan Food Forest consists of about 105 different plants that the Northern Cheyenne tribe has used for spiritual, medicinal, or nutritional significance. A dedication ceremony on Aug. 31 at the Sheridan Food Forest drew around two dozen community members who wanted to learn more about the significance of these plants.