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BY USDA | March 2, 2021 Courtesy of USDA Rural Development. LINCOLN, NE  March 1, 2021 —  Rural Nebraska communities in FEMA declared disaster counties have utilized $1.3 million of the $2.2 million provided by USDA for disaster recovery. These funds may be used for non-disaster projects also. The grants are available through the Community Facilities Program. A sample of the ...

Every time Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate (Bienen ’90) composes a piece about Chickasaw culture, he pictures himself standing in the forests of Mississippi where his ancestors lived before removal. Trips to the area in the ‘90s inspired him to write “Tracing Mississippi,” a concerto that incorporates traditional tribal songs and dance rhythms and was later recorded by the San Francisco Symphony and San Francisco Symphony Chorus. Both his grandmother and his parents were able...

BY Nebraska Game and Parks Commission | February 19, 2021 This new boat ramp was completed in 2020 at Lewis and Clark State Recreation Area’s Weigand Marina. The marina now has two boat ramps. (NGPC photo) LINCOLN, Neb. – Boating prospects in northeast Nebraska are looking up with the completion of two state park area projects in 2020. The completion of a second boat ramp at Lewis and C...

User reports estimate the perceived ground shaking intensity according to the MMI (Modified Mercalli Intensity) scale. Contribute: Flag as inappropriate. Send your own user report! leave your comment here Choctaw / Light shaking (MMI IV) : Shook my bed for around 10-20 seconds. I live on 2nd story so that mightve been a factor in why no one else in house noticed. Did not wake up my cat, but confused guinea pig. | 11 users found this interesting.    Mannford Oklahoma / Light shaking (MMI IV)...

Courtesy Duane Garvais Lawrence Lenice Blackbird, a 25-year-old member of the Omaha Tribe in Nebraska, left her home in late June to isolate after being diagnosed with COVID-19—and she never returned. Her body was found a few days later in the woods near a cabin in Macy, Nebraska, according to reports in the Siouxland News. In September, her mother, Donna Blackbird, stood with friends and family on the Omaha Reservation, holding a poster decorated with Lenice’s face and a red handprint—...

The sad, sometimes costly saga of late mail continues to dog readers both in Virginia and around the country. Yet another who’s experienced it personally is Herb Detweiler of Roanoke. “You can add my experience to your long list of sabotaged mail,” he wrote me Feb. 9. “I sent the water company a check for $38.19 on December 28. It never cleared and I had to send a check for $82 to cover December and January last month. “Guess what? The December check finally cleared tod...

The week hundreds of Native Americans took over D.C.’s Bureau of Indian Affairs Dana Hedgpeth © Havery Georges/AP Members of the American Indian Movement stand guard at the Bureau of Indian Affairs in November 1972. (Harvey Georges/AP) With desks, chairs and file cabinets, hundreds of Native Americans barricaded the entrances to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in downtown Washington, just six blocks from the White House. It was the week before the 1972 presidential electi...

The 1972 occupation, born out of frustration with the government’s ‘Trail of Broken Treaties,’ lasted for six days

Published on January 23rd, 2021   On his first day in office, President Joe Biden signed a series of executive orders to reverse some of the worst environmental decisions of the Trump Administration, highlighted by his revoking of the Keystone XL permit issued under Trump. By Dan Bacher Immediately following his inauguration on January 20, President Biden signed Executive Orders that take “critical first steps to address the climate crisis, create good union jobs, and advance e...

by Bill Kelly, Senior Producer/Reporter, NET News Anti-pipeline protesters at Nebraska State Capitol in 2017 Listen to this story:  Sorry, but the video you are requesting is unavailable at this time, or unplayable on your platform! Bill Kelly, Senior Producer/Reporter, NET News a href "https://twitter.com/BillKelly_NET/" img  src "/sites/default/files/t+.png?" /a January 20, 2021 - 5:11pm Work on the controversial Keystone XL Pipeline halted the same day President Joe Biden revoked the ...