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Powwows across US adapt to pandemic for a second year NATASHA BRENNAN, Indian Country Today April 23, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail 3 1of3This 2018 photo shows Idaho's largest cultural fair, the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival, on the Fort Hall Indian Reservation. This year's annual gathering was canceled as the coronavirus pandemic alters powwow season across the U.S. for a second year. (Mark Trahant/Indian Country Today via APMark Trahant/APShow MoreShow Less 2of3FILE - In this April 27, 2018, file photo, dancers enter at the Gathering of Nations, one of the world's largest gather...

Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival canceled FORT HALL, Idaho (KIFI)-The Shoshone-Bannock Tribes have announced the Shoshone-Bannock Indian Festival has again been canceled this year, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. “Hosting the powwow doesn’t fit within the Tribes Safety Protocols and we must keep our community safe. Our community has not yet reached the vaccination rate we were hoping for and encourages tribal membership to get vaccinated so we can get back to somewhat of a normal,” said Tribal Chairman Devon Boyer. In addition to the festival, the Shoshone-Bannock Casino Hotel Treaty day...

  Tribes in the Mountain West reached resolutions in two long standing environmental disputes this week. The victories for the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes and the Navajo Nation could signal a shift toward accountability for corporate polluters operating on tribal lands. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to take up FMC Corp. v. Shoshone-Bannock Tribes , upholding a lower court ruling in the tribes' favor. The decision ended a more than 15-year-long legal battle between the Shoshone-Bannock and a chemical company that mined phosphate and manufactured fertilizer on their southeastern Ida...

“This decision helps all of Indian Country in efforts to protect tribal lands and natural resources as well as the betterment of all people of southeast Idaho,” Chairman Devon Boyer of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes said.

US Supreme Court decision confirms tribal jurisdiction over FMC Submitted photo depicting an aerial view of the FMC Corporation, 2002. FORT HALL, Idaho (KIFI) - The United States Supreme Court of the United States rejected FMC Corporation’s final appeal Monday to contest the jurisdiction of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes to regulate storage of approximately 22 million tons of hazardous waste on the Fort Hall Reservation at the Eastern Michaud Superfund site west of Pocatello.  “The Tribes are very pleased that the Supreme Court of the United States did not find any merit to FMC’s appeal ...