NYTs: “Shutdown Leaves Food, Medicine and Pay in Doubt in Indian Country”

Here, featuring the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians.

NYTs/ProPublica: “District of Despair: On a Montana Reservation, Schools”

Here.

Fond du Lac Member Appointed to State Office

Yesterday Minnesota Governor Elect, Tim Walz, appointed Dennis Olson, Jr. as the Commissioner of Minnesota Office of Higher Education. Dennis is a citizen of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa and currently serves as the Executive Director of the Minnesota Indian Affairs Council. This appointment is part of Governor Elect Walz’s effort to increase access to education for people of color and address the disparities in prison populations.

Minnesota Lt. Governor-Elect, Peggy Flanagan, is the first ever Native American woman to be elected to state wide executive office.

Both Olson and Flanagan are graduates of the University of Minnesota American Indian Studies program.

https://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2018/12/20/walz-set-to-name-3-more-cabinet-appointees/amp/

https://kstp.com/politics/governor-elect-tim-walz-announcement-new-leadership-education-corrections-departments/5185837/

Mother Jones: “Native Women Are Already Extremely Vulnerable to Domestic Violence. Congress Is About to Make It Worse.”

Here.

Vice: “Native American Women Are Being Sold into the Sex Trade on Ships Along Lake Superior”

Here.

WaPo Op-Ed (Rebecca Nagle): “Half the land in Oklahoma could be returned to Native Americans. It should be.”

Here.

Seattle Meeting on Bill Relating to Missing & Murdered Indigenous Women 12/21

Info. is here.

Thomas Ryan RedCorn: “Putting Osage women in control of their own images”

Here, in WaPo.

WaPo Op-Ed: “Why conservatives are attacking a law meant to protect Native American families”

Here.