Bureau of Indian Affairs invests $29 million in dam safety program
The Biden administration is investing $29 million in infrastructure funds on dam safety in Indian Country.
Source: indianz.com
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National Park Service Adds Historic School Segregation Sites
Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site in Topeka, Kansas is expanding to sites in four other states and getting a new designation
Source: theepochtimes.com
Yurok Tribe Petitions Federal Government to Change Local Mountain's Offensive Name
The Yurok Tribal Council is petitioning the federal government to revise the exceedingly inflammatory name of a mountain peak within Yurok ancestral territory.
United States Josephl James Deb Haaland Us Derogatory Geographic Names Task Yurok Tribal Council Resources Agency
Source: lostcoastoutpost.com
Federal report looks at the murky past of Indian boarding schools
On Wednesday, the Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative Investigative Report was released.
Source: kgw.com
Schools in New York and Vermont among those in new report from Bureau of Indian Affairs
A new report identified over 400 schools run by the federal government from 1819 to 1969.
New York United States Celia Clarke Deb Haaland Thomas Indian School In Irving Tonawanda Mission School
Source: northcountrypublicradio.org
Interior Department releases Indian boarding school report
The 106-page report — penned by Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs Bryan Newland — details for the first time that the federal government operated or supported 408 boarding schools across 37 states, including Alaska and Hawai’i, between 1819 and 1969. About half of the boarding schools were staffed or paid for by a religious institution. The investigation identified marked and unmarked burial sites at 53 of those schools, though the Department expects to find the number of children buri...
United States Denise Lajimodiere Deb Haaland Hawaiian Community Department Of The Interior Library Kamloops Indian Residential School
Source: knba.org
US panel to focus on Native American missing, slain cases
Diverse federal commission tasked with improving how government handles crisis
Source: abqjournal.com
Mid-Missouri veterans depart for Honor Flight to DC for first time in 2 years
The group of 95 veterans is scheduled to leave Columbia for Lambert International Airport in St. Louis at 2 a.m.
Source: komu.com
New commission formed to investigate the missing or murdered indigenous persons crisis
The U.S. Departments of Interior and Justice on Thursday, named more than 35 members to the Not Invisible Act Commission that will look into the crisis involving missing and murdered Indigenous persons cases.
Source: kstp.com
Remarks By President Biden and First Lady Jill Biden at a Cinco De Mayo Reception
4:47 P.M. EDTTHE FIRST LADY: Thank you. And welcome to the White House! (Applause.)AUDIENCE MEMBER: La Casa Blanca!
Source: whitehouse.gov