HCN: “Casino closures in Indian Country hit core tribal services”

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An excerpt:

When Bryan Newland was 16, he got a job as a dishwasher at his tribe’s casino restaurant. In college, he carried golf bags for patrons at the casino course. Now the chairman of Bay Mills Indian Community, Newland was forced to announce on Wednesday that the tribal government could no longer pay the 400 people employed at Bay Mills casinos, golf courses, and other tribal businesses and departments closed due to COVID-19.

“I understand that many of you are angry, frustrated and scared,” Newland (Ojibwe) told tribal members in a Facebook video address on Wednesday. “You’re not alone in those feelings. The Small Business Administration has abandoned us, and it is failing Indian Country right now.” 

The Atlantic: “The Alaska Native Teacher Upending the Legacy of Colonial Education”

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The G in the Atlantic: “Gretchen Whitmer: ‘There’s Going to Be a Horrible Cost’”

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Underscore News Profile of Online Powwows

Here.

KOAT: “Tribal communities hit hard by COVID-19 not seeing promised federal aid”

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HuffPo: “The White House Wanted To Give $0 To Tribes In The $2 Trillion Stimulus Bill”

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MLive: “Historic Michigan tribal burial ground threatened by coastal erosion”

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Michigan Radio: “Tribes face COVID-19 with limited test kits, remote staff, lost revenue”

Here.

High Country News Special Report on Land Grant Universities the Expropriated Indian Lands

Here is “Land-grab universities: Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.”

L.A. Times: “Why are some Native Americans fighting efforts to decriminalize peyote?”

Here.