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Eight years ago, the FBI made the largest seizure of stolen artifacts and Native American human remains in its history from an amateur archaeologist in Indiana. Now, with the majority of ancestors and artifacts returned to their respective nations, tribal leaders and experts on the case say the bureau has created a model for timely yet thorough repatriation.
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The University of Kansas (KU) is bringing on a repatriation program manager next month to facilitate the return of 380 ancestors and 554 burial objects university staff found on campus in September 2022.
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The Native American Rights Fund’s Tribal Supreme Court Project—an initiative co-founded in 2001 with the National Congress of American Indians to monitor and defend court cases that stand to impact tribal sovereignty— just received a $600,000 boost.
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RAPID CITY, S.D. — Tomorrow, a federal court in South Dakota will hear opening arguments in a case that will determine if the federal government is providing adequate law-enforcement to one of the nation’s largest Indian reservations.
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Lack of access to capital is a persistent issue in Indian Country, which is why a new $75 million Indigenous-led venture capital fund is like a welcome rain after a long drought. Vancouver- based impact investor Raven Indigenous Capital Partners said it closed an oversubscribed funding round and will launch its second venture fund to support early- and growth-stage companies led by Indigenous entrepreneurs in Canada and the U.S.
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Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. testified at a House Rules Committee hearing on Nov. 16, 2022, asking members of the Committee to fulfill the 1835 Treaty of New Echota which allows for the seating of a Cherokee delegate to Congress.
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The Seneca Nation of Indians won a significant victory over the State of New York in federal Court on Thursday.
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BISMARCK, ND — North Dakota lawmakers introduced a bill on Monday that would solidify the rules of the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) into state law.
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The Canadian government has agreed to pay more than $2 billion to hundreds of Indigenous communities to settle a lawsuit centered around nearly a century of abuse suffered by children who attended Indian residential schools.
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GILA RIVER INDIAN COMMUNITY — Tribal citizens and boarding school survivors filled the Gila Crossing Community School near Phoenix on Friday, as senior officials from the Department of Interior held the fourth listening session on the yearlong Road to Healing Tour.
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