Weekly News Summary, December 20-26
              
            
            
           
                                  
                              
                  
                    Race on Campus: 'A Canoe Trying to Change the Direction of a Battleship'
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                    'Things can come home again': Sacred birch bark scroll to return to White Earth Nation
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                    'Things can come home again': Sacred birch bark scroll to return to White Earth Nation
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                    A clean energy proposal near a sacred Indigenous site divides a Minnesota community
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                    Biden nominates first Native American federal judge in Washington state history
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                    Missing children nonprofit seeks public help in locating teen
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                    Mille Lacs Band heads to St. Paul: ‘We are their voices’
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                    Here's what is (and isn't) changed by the new CDC mask guidance
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                    Minnesota's mask mandate will end Friday, Gov. Tim Walz says
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                    Twists and turns for Minnesota's oldest human bones
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                    Why Indigenous women are risking arrest to fight Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline through Minnesota
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                    St. Thomas committee seeks to recognize Dakota land
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                    50 years ago, election ushered in new era for US tribes
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                    Effort to rein in electronic pull tabs pits tribal casinos against bars, charities
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                    Legislators propose Minnesota office of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Relatives
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                    Vigils, rallies mark day of awareness for Indigenous victims
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                    State should renew commitment to helping Native communities
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                    Deb Haaland: ‘Unfortunate’ That Rick Santorum Doesn’t Know Native American History
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                    U of M president creates new leadership role, taps Karen Diver to advise on Native American affairs
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                    Air Force Creates LGBTQA, Indigenous Focus Groups to Address Diversity Issues
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                    Gunman kills two in casino attack on Native American reservation
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                    Share Readout of the Biden-Harris Administration’s First Meeting of the White House Council on Native American Affairs
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                    US agency seeks to speed up Native American land decisions
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                    CNN urged to fire Rick Santorum after racist comments on Native Americans
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                    New book recounts history through Ojibwe missionary's eyes
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                    Powwows across US adapt to pandemic for a second year
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                    Duluth city leaders respond to NAACP call for racial equity
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                    Enbridge shells out $750K to law enforcement for Line 3 protest costs
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                    Electronic pulltabs have become too similar to slot machines, Minnesota legislators say
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                    Totalitarianism at 38th and Chicago: A Minnesotan lie
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                    Minnesota Native Community Responds to Guilty Verdict in Chauvin Trial
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                    'Our Voice Is Going To Be Respected': Biden Restores Native American Affairs Council
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                    Diane Wilson says ‘The Seed Keeper’ grew out of Dakota heritage and devotion to seeds
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                    Indian Country nearly locked out of U.S. Supreme Court hearing
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                    County attorney shares presentation about tribal sovereignty and treaty rights
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                    Grand Portage submits request to obtain MnDOT property near Grand Marais
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                    Biden Administration Resumes White House Council on Native American Affairs
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                    Attorney’s office reviewing harassment case involving tribal harvesters on Mille Lacs
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                    NAFOA Executive Dante Desiderio Chosen to Lead National Congress of American Indians
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                    Learning a New Language Can Help Us Escape Climate Catastrophe
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                    Graduate student curates Northrop exhibit highlighting Indigenous canoeing communities
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                    Bois Forte Mobile Vaccine Unit Makes Stop in Duluth
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                    EPA directs Minnesota to list waters impaired for wild rice
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                    Statue of treaty rights activitist headed for U.S. Capitol
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                    Tribal leaders blast federal rule that could undercut American Indian health care
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                    Minnesotan Dr. Charles A. Eastman (Ohiyesa) was reservation doctor at Pine Ridge during the Wounded Knee massacre
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                    Why burial recovery efforts have resumed along Mission Creek
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                    Red Lake seeks water standard authority from EPA
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                    Judge approves MPCA changes to water quality standards
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                    Biden taps expert in Native American law as top lawyer at Interior
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                    'Our hearts are heavy': COVID-19 deaths of tribal elders leave a void
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                    Decision strikes key parts of Native American adoptions law
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                    https://www.minnpost.com/mental-health-addiction/2021/04/red-lake-portraits-of-recovery-paints-a-hopeful-picture-of-native-addiction-treatment/
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                    Even the Great Lakes’ deepest waters are now warming
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                    Concerns about clean water shouldn’t stop with Twin Metals
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                    ‘Race against the clock’: the school fighting to save the Ojibwe language before its elders pass away
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                    What’s behind the Corps of Engineers’ suspension of a PolyMet permit
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                    Land seizures, 'unethical' research: University of Minnesota confronts troubled history with tribal nations
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                    Indigenous communities demonstrate innovation and strength despite unequal losses during COVID-19
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                    Native-owned /tribal enterprises still struggling in Minnesota
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                Inaajimowin Archive
               
            
          
                            
                                                  
                            
Band Assembly Weekly Update, December 14-18
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                                                  
                            
Weekly News Summary, December 13-19
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                                                  
                            
Revisor's Office Bill Signed into Law
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                                                  
                            
Band Assembly Weekly Update, December 7-11
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                                                  
                            
Housing Improvement Grants Available
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                          
                        
                            
Weekly News Summary, December 6–12
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                                                  
                            
Band member reelected to hospital board
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                          
                        
                            
Caravan raises awareness of domestic violence
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                                                  
                            
Traditions, fitness — and ukuleles! Youth program adjusts to COVID-19
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                          
                        
                            
HAWK crosswalk installed in District I
              
            
            
           
          
                            
                                                  
                            
Band Assembly Weekly Update, November 30-December 4, 2020