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Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health/Indian Country Today collaborated with the Johns Hopkins Center for American Indian Health to provide comprehensive data and maps to the public. -
Many institutions acknowledge that land they've built upon once belonged to Native peoples, but experts say some well-intentioned statements can actually do harm.
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A coalition that includes the Fort Mojave Indian Tribe is calling on the federal government to declare an area in Nevada the Avi Kwa Ame National Monument. -
October 11th is officially Indigenous Peoples Day in Laramie.
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Last month, Gabby Petito was found dead in the Bridger-Teton National Forest. Her case received immense media coverage. That sparked conversations throughout Indian Country regarding missing and murdered Indigenous women's cases and their comparative lack of coverage.
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Sinks Canyon State Park officials are looking at installing a climbing aid to the walls of the canyon to entice more summer climbers. Wyoming Public Radio's Taylar Stagner reports that the Tribes on the Wind River Reservation were not contacted appropriately.
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Many American towns and metropolises have initiated unions with international locales – “sister cities,” where citizens travel to each others' hometowns and build cultural bridges. Rarely have local leaders considered such an arrangement with tribal nations, until now.
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Thursday marks Canada's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – a day meant to acknowledge the enduring impacts that residential schools had on Indigenous people.
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Media coverage around the death of 22-year-old Gabrielle Petito looks racist to those who note that murders and disappearances of Native Americans are mostly ignored.
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Prior to World War I, Nevada’s Douglas County adopted an ordinance that prohibited Native Americans from being in the towns of Minden or Gardnerville after sunset — at the risk of jail time or worse.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has had a great impact on Indigenous communities. Wyoming Public Radio's Signa McAdams spoke to tribal members Patrick Littleshield, Sam HerManyHorses, Fred Hebahand Dean Littleshield at Wyoming's largest powwow, the Eastern Shoshone Indian Days, about what it was like to be at the grounds after a year of lockdown.
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Yellowstone National Park is working to expand tribal presence and representation of their cultural heritage in the park.
