Today, catch up on some of the stories we’re following from Indian Country. The Navajo Nation explains why the passage of the Native American Voting Rights Act (NAVRA) would mean so much, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe hopes to increase the number of dwindling fluent Lakota language speakers, and more in this week’s News You Can Use from all over Indian Country!
Voting rights for Native Americans
While voting rights for all Americans are taking center stage at the federal level, the Native American Voting Rights Act is supposed to help undo decades of...
Native American Heritage Month Gives Us an Opportunity to Get Past the Thanksgiving Pilgrim Indian
When he proclaimed November Native American Heritage Month, President Joe Biden became the sixth U.S. president to recognize the month as such since President George Herbert Walker Bush in 1990.
Program seeks to remove barriers to learning Lakota
By providing a full-time wage to individuals interested in completing a Lakota language course, the Rosebud Sioux Tribe hopes to bump the number of dwindling fluent speakers
US Census says American Indian undercounted by tens of thousands
The 2020 Census has a few surprises.
Native American History month highlights lack of education on Indigenous history
Nick Tilsen, the President and CEO of the NDN Collective said, “education has been one of the fundamental ways to try and actively erase Indigenous people from history,” and according to Tilsen there are 26 states in the U.S that don’t teach any Native American history.
