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Press release content from Globe Newswire. The AP news staff was not involved in its creation. Millions of American Indian College Fund Scholarship Dollars Available for California’s Native ... American Indian College FundFebruary 1, 2021 GMT Denver, Colo., Feb. 01, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Native American college students from qualified California tribes have millions of dollars of scholarship funds available to them through the American Indian College Fund’s Wi’aasal (Great Oak) Future ...

States With the Biggest Native American Populations By Ellen Dewitt, Stacker News On 1/16/21 at 9:00 AM EST Autumns Memories / Shutterstock More than 5 million Native Americans live in the United States as members of 574 federally recognized and 63 state-recognized tribes. That number is projected to rise to 10 million people by 2060. A federally recognized tribe is a sovereign entity with a government-to-government relationship with the United States, as well as the rights of self-governanc...

ADVERTISEMENT ADVERTISEMENT BLM Cant Dodge Calif. Tribes Latest Geothermal Lease Suit Law360 (January 13, 2021, 9:13 PM EST) -- A California federal judge has denied the Bureau of Land Managements bid to escape a suit seeking to shut down a unit of geothermal leases on land sacred to the Pit River Tribe, saying the claims werent covered in a previous suit by the tribe. U.S. District Judge John A. Mendez in a ruling made public Tuesday refused to toss the federally recognized tribes claims chal...

By California Department of Fish and Wildlife January 1, 2021 Homemade bottle traps  Question: Is it legal to use a homemade plastic bottle trap in lakes and other freshwater bodies? — Anonymous Answer: The 2020-21 Freshwater Sport Fishing Regulations state “Except as otherwise authorized, all fish may be taken only by angling with one closely attended rod and line (or with two rods if the angler is in possession of a valid two-rod stamp).”  However, there are two exceptions: 1. T...

WE ARE HONORED to present to you the very first Massachusetts Review issue focused on Native American writing. We are thankful to Associate Editor N. C. Christopher Couch and the rest of the MR team for dreaming up this issue and for asking us to be guest editors, and we are especially thankful to the writers and artists whose work we’ve chosen for this special issue. Their words and images are a gift. This issue, as it was first imagined, was set to coincide with and push back against Massa...