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Tribal Clinic Develops Toolkit to Help Indigenous Peoples Assert Their Rights April 28, 2021 Professor Angela R. Riley directs UCLA Law’s Native Nations Law and Policy Center and UCLA’s dual-degree program in Law and American Indian Studies. For the first time, leaders across Indian country have a toolkit available to them to address Indigenous and human rights through tribal lawmaking that supports and implements the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. The ...

Published: Thursday, February 4, 2021 U.S. Representative Deb Haaland (D-NM). Photo credit: Brian Snyder/Reuters/Newscom Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) at the Capitol on Jan. 3, 2019, after she became one of the first two Native American women in the House. She now could become the first Native American to serve as Interior secretary. Brian Snyder/Reuters/Newscom With Democratic New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland poised to become the first Native American Interior secretary, tribal governments historical...

5:11 Soon after she was elected as one of Americas first Indigenous congresswomen in 2018, New Mexico Rep. Deb Haaland paid a visit to her constituents at the Pueblo of Sandia, just outside of Albuquerque.  "She came to the Pueblo for one of our feast days," said Stephine Poston, a tribal citizen and advocate for Native women leadership. "And the young girls, a couple of them were following her around and she stopped to talk to them. It was an amazing thing to see and witness."  Poston said H...

Haaland nomination to Interior Department ‘an unprecedented nod to Indian country’ Joseph Morton and Jessica Wehrman Cq-Roll Call As the chief executive officer of Ho-Chunk, Inc., the economic development corporation owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Lance Morgan says he knows who makes the big decisions in an organization. That’s why he was pleased Thursday to learn Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., will be nominated by President-elect Joe Biden as the first Native American to lead the I...

Haaland nomination to Interior Department ‘an unprecedented nod to Indian country’ Joseph Morton and Jessica Wehrman © Provided by Roll Call Rep. Deb Haaland, D-N.M., walks down the House steps as Congress holds the last votes of the week before the Thanksgiving recess on Nov. 20, 2020. As the chief executive officer of Ho-Chunk, Inc., the economic development corporation owned by the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska, Lance Morgan says he knows who makes the big decisions in ...

camera icon © Miroslav Liska/Dreamstime Today is the 50th anniversary of the Blue Lake Act, signed into law by President Richard Nixon, which returned 48,000 acres of sacred, traditional land to the Taos Pueblo Tribe of northern New Mexico after a 64-year struggle. Blog Post Honor Indigenous history at these 15 sites where visitors can learn about the extensive connections tribes have with today’s national parks. See more › Blue Lake lies high in ...