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Native Sun News Today: Tim Giago joins Native American Hall of Fame (November 29, 2022)
“Write to your people,” the legendary Native journalist Tim Giago would say. “Others will read it too, but your people are your audience.” 
Lawsuit against National Congress of American Indians set for first hearing (October 20, 2022)
A lawsuit against the National Congress of American Indians is finally getting its first hearing, some six months after it was filed. 
A business in South Dakota that banned Native patrons from the premises is being sued by the United States government for racial discrimination.
President Joe Biden has joined national-level politicians in seeking the resignations of city officials in California who made racist and offensive statements about Indigenous people.
The first and only Native council member in California’s largest city is calling on his colleagues to step down for making racist and offensive statements about Indigenous people.
Many Canadians are coming to terms with the nation’s history of schooling and settler colonialism.
Native America Calling: Suiting up for football season (September 29, 2022)
Thursday on Native America Calling, Shawn Spruce huddles with Native football players and those who root for them. 
A lawsuit filed by the former chief executive officer of the National Congress of American Indians will proceed in the Superior Court of the District of Columbia.
The chief executive officer of the National Congress of American Indians lost his job over his handling of a sexual harassment investigation, according to an explosive lawsuit.
Native leaders join national panel to address derogatory place names (August 16, 2022)
The Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names will address racist and derogatory terms across the country. 
Many times over the past 30 years, Tim Giago shared the story behind the founding of Native American Day in South Dakota.
Tim Giago wore many hats in his long, eventful life. He was a son, a brother, an uncle, a grandfather, a sailor, a poet, a businessman, an entrepreneur, a talk show host, a journalist, an editor, an author, and a publisher.
The House Committee on Natural Resources meets for a markup on H.R.2021, the Environmental Justice For All Act.
Three young Indigenous people died under mysterious circumstances in Prince Rupert in British Columbia. The investigations into their deaths were inadequate.
After more than a century, Native sports legend Jim Thorpe has once again been recognized for his Olympic achievements.
The Haudenosaunee Nationals women’s team is on a winning streak at the World Lacrosse games.
“We cannot allow them to take any more power away from us,” says Crystal Echo Hawk, founder and executive director of IllumiNative.
The House Committee on Natural Resources meets for a markup on June 15, 2022.
Democrats are vowing to return to work better prepared after they said Republicans “hijacked” a slew of Indian Country bills during a markup where nothing was accomplished.
Alyssa London, a citizen of the Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes, is set to become a familiar face on NBC News and MSNBC.
Native America Calling: ‘Walking iron’ (May 16, 2022)
The story of Mohawk ironworkers building the skyline of New York is legendary. ![Legislative Hearing on H.R. 437, H.R. 6063, H.R. 6181 [Discussion Draft ANS], S. 314, S. 559, and S. 789](https://www.indianz.com/News/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/29/HouseSubcommitteeforIndigenousPeoplesoftheUnitedStates.png)
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a legislative hearing on six tribal bills on April 27, 2022.
![Legislative Hearing on H.R. 437, H.R. 6063, H.R. 6181 [Discussion Draft ANS], S. 314, S. 559, and S. 789](https://www.indianz.com/News/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/27/HouseSubcommitteeforIndigenousPeoplesoftheUnitedStates.png)
The House Subcommittee for Indigenous Peoples of the United States holds a legislative hearing on six tribal bills on April 27, 2022.
Native artists ‘left hanging’ after big event fizzles out (April 16, 2022)
An ambitious showcase of Native talent devolved into controversy and recrimination as performers and vendors were left in the dark about the event. 
Racist comments from a business owner brought quick responses from the Native community and other establishments on Sioux Nation territory.
On an intuitive and experiential level, the Catholic Church as an institution was an agent of harm. But Pope Francis has avoided saying so.
Any law or order meant to restrict our freedom to teach and learn is a restriction on freedom.
Federal investigation sought into ban of Native people at hotel (March 30, 2022)
The Standing Rock Sioux Tribe is calling on the Department of Justice to investigate a business that has banned Native patrons. 
The people of the Dakota, Lakota and Nakota nations came together to take a stand against racism and discrimination on their homelands.
Native America Calling: Setbacks for basic respect (March 28, 2022)
A series of troubling incidents appears to harken to a time of unchecked discrimination, racism and basic disregard for Native people. 
Harold Frazier: ‘No Indians allowed’ — even on our own homelands (March 23, 2022)
When those wagons first began their way to break treaties and settle on our territory we were classified as lesser beings and genocide was justified as such. 
Ivan Star Comes Out: Taking a closer look at our tribal flag (March 22, 2022)
Ideally, a national flag is a symbol of pride and devotion to one’s country. 
Cronkite News: Washington football team unveils replacement for racist name (February 4, 2022)
“For 90 years, the Washington Football Team perpetuated discriminatory and racist behavior both through their use of a dictionary-defined racial slur as a team name and a false and offensive caricature of Native culture as a mascot,” said Crystal Echo Hawk. 
Full-time NAGPRA investigator hired for first time in decades (January 31, 2022)
The Biden administration is taking greater steps to enforce the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, more than 30 years after the law went on the books. 
Roundtable examines ‘toxic workplace culture’ at Washington football team (January 28, 2022)
Leaders of a U.S. Congressional committee will host a roundtable to examine what they are calling the “toxic workplace culture” within the Washington professional football team. 
People’s World: Indian rights activist Clyde Bellecourt passes on (January 20, 2022)
Clyde Bellecourt was a founder of the American Indian Movement. He passed away at the age of 85. 
Cronkite News: Native people overrepresented in jail system (January 18, 2022)
Native people are 1.8 times as likely as white Americans to be booked into jail in Pima County, Arizona. 
Native America Calling: The Native perspective on Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 17, 2022)
Dr. Martin Luther King often included Native people in his push to end racial oppression and segregationist policies. 
The Department of the Interior is soliciting nominations for a new advisory panel that will examine racist and derogatory place names.
Freedom Socialist: Conservative attack on Indian Child Welfare Act continues (December 1, 2021)
Determined right-wing forces have piled onto a critical court case in order to overturn the hard-won Indian Child Welfare Act.
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