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With both grief and relief, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe welcomed the return of nine children who died at the Carlisle Indian School.
Native America Calling: Book of the Month (July 28, 2021)
Navajo writer Brian Young’s debut novel “Healer of the Water Monster” features the story of Nathan who makes a trip to his grandmother’s place. 
Native America Calling: The debut of Reservation Dogs (July 27, 2021)
The breakthrough series, Reservation Dogs, is ready to drop its first two episodes on FX on Hulu August 9. 
Native America Calling: Young Native entrepreneurs (July 22, 2021)
Some talented young people are making marks in the Native business world. 
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. 
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.
The Akwesasne community demonstrated in the most powerful way its desire to address the terrible effects residential schools have had on the people.
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.
Native America Calling: Residential schools: cycle of grief (July 15, 2021)
The revelation that more unmarked graves were found at a Canadian residential school adds additional injury for Indigenous people. 
Federal officials and Indian Country leaders are testifying about Indian health and Native youth legislation.
Bill introduced in Senate to reauthorize key Indian housing law (July 13, 2021)
Sen. Mike Rounds (R-South Dakota) introduced legislation with Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and other members of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, to reform and reauthorize the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act. 
Fawn Sharp: Racist ‘Native’ mascots have no place in our society (July 13, 2021)
NCAI will not rest until all offensive Native-themed mascots and associated imagery are removed from popular culture.
4-H programs evolved to incorporate Native farming and ranching methods to both educate young people and keep Native knowledge thriving.
Cronkite News: COVID-19 brings traditional practices online (July 12, 2021)
Incorporating Indigenous practices like talking circles into health care treatment isn’t new but has grown in significance during COVID-19. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (July 12, 2021)
NAFOA looks out for our community — help us grow by forwarding this newsletter! 
As Natives, we have endured and survived the most atrocious, violent, and sadistic European immigrant vengeance.
Native America Calling: High school during COVID-19 (July 9, 2021)
Native students navigated online classes, spotty internet access, and isolation but many thrived and even secured scholarships and acceptance at choice colleges amid COVID-19. 
In Montana, Native people make up roughly 26 percent of missing persons cases yet account for less than 7 percent of the state’s population.
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.
Native America Calling: Native in the Spotlight (July 7, 2021)
Rep. Sharice Davids ( D-Kansas), a citizen of the Ho-Chunk Nation, took time from her busy schedule in Congress to write a children’s book. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (July 6, 2021)
Get to know our growing NAFOA team! 
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.
Chuck Hoskin: Cherokee Nation acquires boarding school site (June 30, 2021)
The history of Native boarding schools in this country is complicated and includes many tragic abuses that must be investigated in depth. 
NAFOA: 5 Things You Need to Know this Week (June 28, 2021)
NAFOA supports your growth – as individuals and communities. 
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.
Native youth are part of a lawsuit that seeks to hold the federal government accountable for climate change.
“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 National Congress of American Indians commends the Department of Interior for taking the essential first step of providing an official account of the atrocities that Native children experienced during the boarding school era,” said President Fawn Sharp.
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.
Secretary Deb Haaland is addressing the National Congress of American Indians for the first time since taking over the Department of the Interior.
Law enforcement reported arresting more than 240 people for participating in a demonstration against a pipeline on Ojibwe treaty territory.
Donations boost Native organizations amid COVID-19 recovery (June 16, 2021)
Several prominent Native nonprofits and institutions have received a major boost from billionaire donor MacKenzie Scott. 
Yakama Nation celebrates ‘resounding victory’ for treaty lands (June 16, 2021)
The Yakama Nation is celebrating after a federal appeals court confirmed that the tribe has been right all along about its treaty lands. 
Chuck Hoskin: A summer of opportunity for Cherokee Nation youth (June 15, 2021)
After more than a year of battling COVID, life is finally getting closer to normal across the Cherokee Nation. 
It’s a big day for Bryan Newland, who has been nominated to serve as the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs in the Joe Biden administration.
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