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GRAHAM LEE BREWER

GRAHAM LEE BREWER

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Education|Political|US

Tribes and Native American students sue over Bureau of Indian Education firings

Three tribal nations and five Native American students say in a lawsuit that the Trump administration has failed its legal obligations to tribes when it cut jobs at Bureau of Indian Education schools

Tribes and Native American students sue over Bureau of Indian Education firings
Economy|Political|US

Tribal nations are concerned that Trump's cuts have the potential to violate trust responsibilities

Tribal leaders across the United States are scrambling to respond to a directive from President Donald Trump and Elon Musk to close more than a quarter of Bureau of Indian Affairs offices, which provide vital services to Indigenous communities

Tribal nations are concerned that Trump's cuts have the potential to violate trust responsibilities
Crime|Political|US

Leonard Peltier remains defiant in AP interview, maintaining innocence and vowing continued activism

More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant

Leonard Peltier remains defiant in AP interview, maintaining innocence and vowing continued activism
Americas|Crime|Political|US

Leonard Peltier leaves prison after Biden commuted his sentence in the killing of two FBI agents

Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been released from a Florida prison, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents

Leonard Peltier leaves prison after Biden commuted his sentence in the killing of two FBI agents
Americas|Political|US

Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship would overturn more than a century of precedent

U.S. President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right for everyone born in the United States

Trump's attempt to end birthright citizenship would overturn more than a century of precedent
Education|News|Science

Penn Museum buries the bones of 19 Black Philadelphians, causing a dispute with community members

For decades, the University of Pennsylvania has held hundreds of skulls that were once used to promote white supremacy through racist scientific research

Penn Museum buries the bones of 19 Black Philadelphians, causing a dispute with community members
Education|News|US

Oklahoma's oldest Native American school, Bacone College, is threatened by debts and disrepair

Oklahoma's oldest Native American school is nearing the brink of closure as years of poor financial decisions, inconsistent leadership and disrepair threaten what was once a haven for Indigenous academics

Oklahoma's oldest Native American school, Bacone College, is threatened by debts and disrepair
News|US

How Black women coined the 'say her name' rallying cry before Biden's State of the Union address

Hard-line Republican congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wore a T-shirt to Thursday night’s State of the Union address that carried a seemingly simple message: Say Her Name

How Black women coined the 'say her name' rallying cry before Biden's State of the Union address
Economy|Environment|News|US

Interior Department will give tribal nations $120 million to fight climate-related threats

The Interior Department will be allocating more than $120 million to tribal governments to fight the impacts of climate change

Interior Department will give tribal nations $120 million to fight climate-related threats
Health|News|Opinion|Political|US

Nearly 8 in 10 AAPI adults in US think abortion should be legal, AP-NORC poll finds

A new poll shows that Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians and Pacific Islanders in the United States are highly supportive of legal abortion, even in situations where the pregnant person wants an abortion for any reason

Nearly 8 in 10 AAPI adults in US think abortion should be legal, AP-NORC poll finds
Education|Health|Lifestyle|News|Opinion|Technology|US

Two tribal nations sue social media companies over Native youth suicides

Two tribal nations are accusing social media companies of contributing to high rates of suicides that disproportionately affect Native American youth

Two tribal nations sue social media companies over Native youth suicides
Celebrity|Crime|News|US

In death, O.J. Simpson and his trial verdict still reflect America's racial divides

For many people old enough to remember O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, his 1994 exoneration was a defining moment in their understanding of race, policing and justice

In death, O.J. Simpson and his trial verdict still reflect America's racial divides
News|US

A tornado hit an Oklahoma newsroom built in the 1920s. The damage isn't stopping the presses

A weekly newspaper in a rural Oklahoma community was at the center of a path of destruction

A tornado hit an Oklahoma newsroom built in the 1920s. The damage isn't stopping the presses
Education|News|World

What's the history of 'outside agitators'? Here's what to know about the label and campus protests

Many college and city leaders have blamed outside organizers for recent protests at universities around the country against U.S. support of Israel’s war in Gaza

What's the history of 'outside agitators'? Here's what to know about the label and campus protests
Education|Opinion

Report finds Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land expropriated from tribal nations

A report published by a Native American-led nonprofit examines in detail the dispossession of Indigenous homelands in Colorado, quantifies the value of the land and resources taken and outlines the state education system’s omission of that history in its curriculum

Report finds Colorado was built on $1.7 trillion of land expropriated from tribal nations
Lifestyle|News|Sports|US

Senator wants Washington Commanders to pay tribute to an old logo that offends many Indigenous

Many Native Americans thought a bitter debate over the U.S. capital’s football mascot was over when the team became the Washington Commanders

Senator wants Washington Commanders to pay tribute to an old logo that offends many Indigenous
Opinion|Sports

This is one of the oldest games in North America. You've likely never heard of it

Indigenous peoples have been playing stickball for centuries

This is one of the oldest games in North America. You've likely never heard of it
News|US

A win for the Harris-Walz ticket would also mean the country's first Native American female governor

If Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz officially steps down later this year to accept the position of U.S. vice president, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan would become the first Native woman to govern a state

A win for the Harris-Walz ticket would also mean the country's first Native American female governor
News|Opinion|Uncategorized|US|World

Migration is more complex than politics show

Virtually everyone calls the U.S. immigration system broken

Migration is more complex than politics show
News|World

A bitter fight between two tribes over sacred land where one built a casino

Thousands once filled the Muscogee tribe’s territory in present-day Alabama

A bitter fight between two tribes over sacred land where one built a casino
News|World

A bitter fight between two tribes over sacred land where one built a casino

Thousands once filled the Muscogee tribe’s territory in present-day Alabama

A bitter fight between two tribes over sacred land where one built a casino
Crime|News|Opinion|Uncategorized|US

Residents of a small Mississippi town respond to a scathing Justice Department report on policing

A Justice Department report on the police department in Lexington, Mississippi, has found a stunning pattern of racially disparate policing and harassment

Entertainment|Lifestyle|Technology

Civilization 7 makers work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of the tribe to the game

The chief of the Shawnee Tribe grew up playing video games, including hundreds of hours colonizing a distant planet in the 1999 title Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri

Civilization 7 makers work with Shawnee to bring sincere representation of the tribe to the game
Political|US

President Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy

President Joe Biden says he will formally apologize on for the nation's role in forcing Indigenous children into boarding schools, where for more than 150 years many were physically, emotionally and sexually abused, and more than 950 died

President Biden to apologize for 150-year Indian boarding school policy
Opinion|US|World

Native Americans laud Biden for historic apology over boarding schools. They want action to follow

President Joe Biden has done something that no other sitting U.S. president has: He apologized for the systemic abuse generations of Indigenous children endured at the hands of the federal government

Native Americans laud Biden for historic apology over boarding schools. They want action to follow

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