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Aaron Payment: Biden administration updates Indian education initiative (October 15, 2021)
This past week was significant with the first presidential proclamation for Indigenous Peoples’ Day but the news unfortunately eclipsed another major policy announcement from President Joe Biden. 
Biden administration announces new additions to Indian Affairs team (October 13, 2021)
Two tribal citizens are joining the Indian Affairs team at the Department of the Interior. 
Secretary Haaland addresses National Congress of American Indians (October 13, 2021)
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland addresses the National Congress of American Indians on October 12, 2021. 
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs hosts a legislative hearing on October 6, 2021.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States hosts a legislative hearing on October 5, 2021.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is getting back to work with a hearing on tribal water rights settlements that are being supported by the Biden administration.
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States is getting back to work with a legislative hearing.
“There are probably few American Indians that haven’t been touched by MMIW,” said Patricia Hibbeler, chief executive officer for the Phoenix Indian Center.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (September 20, 2021)
One week left until we see you at #NAFOAFall21! 
House Committee on Natural Resources markup on budget reconciliation (September 2, 2021)
The House Committee on Natural Resource is meeting to consider billions of dollars of investments in Indian Country. 
Cronkite News: Indian Country firefighters benefit from pay raise (August 31, 2021)
Fighting wildfires isn’t getting any easier, but pay is rising for firefighters employed by the Bureau of Indian Affairs and other federal agencies. 
Tribal casino revenues took a major hit due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to figures released by the National Indian Gaming Commission.
The sordid history of the U.S. effort to bring Native children into boarding schools is, quite frankly, staggering.
The U.S. Senate finally confirmed Bryan Newland, a citizen of the Bay Mills Indian Community, to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs.
The Biden administration is seeking nominations for the Not Invisible Act Commission to address missing, murdered and trafficked Native Americans.
Lawmakers rejected a proposal that would have added $154 million to the Bureau of Indian Affairs budget to address a landmark U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
Secretary Deb Haaland | Red Road To DC #RedRoadToDC (July 30, 2021)
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland addresses the Red Road to DC event on July 29, 2021. 
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs has rescheduled its hearing on Indian health and Native youth legislation.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts funeral services in Mission, South Dakota, for nine Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school.
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (July 19, 2021)
Indian Country is strongest when we work together.
Photos: Lakota children spend final morning away from homelands (July 19, 2021)
The Indian community came together in Sioux City, Iowa, to welcome nine Lakota children who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school. 
Nine Lakota children began their last morning away from their homelands at the base of a bluff overlooking the Missouri River.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts prayer services in Wagner, South Dakota, for the return of nine Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school.
The Rosebud Sioux Tribe hosts prayer services in Sioux City, Iowa, for the return of nine Lakota students who died at the Carlisle Indian boarding school.
After a long process driven by youth, nine Lakota children who died at one of the most infamous institutions of the Indian boarding school era are finally returning home.
Federal officials and Indian Country leaders are testifying about Indian health and Native youth legislation.
The nomination of Bryan Newland to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs is slowly moving forward in the U.S. Senate.
By 1900, 20,000 children were in Indian boarding schools. By 1925, that number had more than tripled, according to the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition.
Officials in New Mexico’s largest city plan to work with tribal and Native leaders following the disappearance of a plaque commemorating the burials of Indian boarding school students.
Catawba Nation set for debut of long-awaited casino (June 29, 2021)
The Catawba Nation is finally welcoming visitors to its gaming facility in North Carolina. 
The Shoshone-Paiute Tribes are asking Congress to make some technical changes to their water rights settlement.
Native America Calling: June in the news (June 29, 2021)
Join Native America Calling for its monthly recap of the top news in Indian Country, including the announcement of the Indian boarding school investigation. 
The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition has identified 367 historically assimilative Indian boarding schools that operated in the U.S. between approximately 1870 until 1970.
Alaska Native corporations will finally be able to receive COVID-19 funds after the nation’s highest court ruled in their favor in one of the most heated Indian law and policy disputes in decades.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs will be hearing from experts in housing, telecommunications and federal policy at a roundtable on infrastructure.
“As Navajo people, we all have parents, grandparents, and other elders who were subjected to boarding schools and that has contributed to many of the modern-day monsters in our society,” said Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez.
The Department of the Interior is undertaking its first-ever review of Indian boarding school sites and the Indian children who went there. Watch the announcement from Secretary Deb Haaland.
“The federal policies that attempted to wipe out Native identity, language and culture continued to manifest in the pain our communities face,” said Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland.
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is taking another look at infrastructure in Native communities.
Schools, hospitals and other facilities in Indian Country need billons of dollars in investments.
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