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PADUCAH — Award-winning columnist journalist, professor, publisher and author John W. Fountain will serve as the keynotes speaker during the Paducah/McCracken County NAACP’s annual Freedom Fund Banquet on Nov. 5.
Tribal leaders, lawmakers, students, and other dignitaries will be on hand on Tuesday, November 7, 2023 for the unveiling of a historic monument dedicated to memorialize the Native Americans in Capitol Park on the grounds of California’s state capitol in Sacramento, California. The capitol stands on the ancestral lands of Sacramento tribes that still exist today. The timing of the unveiling coincides with Native American Heritage Month.
ALBUQUERQUE – U.S. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo) returned to her hometown of Albuquerque, New Mexico for a listening session on the 11th stop of The Road to Healing on Sunday. Before serving as Interior secretary, Haaland repr...
Rep. Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Wednesday was elected 56th speaker of the House after three weeks of complete chaos that brought work of the House to a standstill. The vote on Wednesday was 220-209 with all Republicans voting for Johnson and all Democrats voting for their House leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY). Former Speaker McCarthy (R-CA) was voted out of the post on October 3, 2023.
ANCHORAGE—Braving frigid temperatures, members of Alaska Native communities took the concept "it takes a village to raise a child" to a different level on Sunday, Oct. 22, when a crowd of more than 500 gathered to raise a totem pole dedicated to healing from the Indian boarding school era. U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Deb Haaland and Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs Bryan Newland joined the crowd as it raised The Boarding School Totem Pole after Sunday's "Road to Healing" listening session at the Alaska Native Heritage Center in Anchorage.