The Sault News: Governor Whitmer, cabinet members meet with Tribal leaders

WaPo: ‘This is a crisis’: Tens of thousands of children affected by pandemic-related deaths of parents

Michigan Advance: Mich. tribal leaders praise Warren bill addressing Native boarding school trauma

Michigan Radio: Stateside: Michigan’s Native boarding schools; kids and past pandemics; Whitmer kidnapping plot case

Green Matters: The Line 5 Pipeline May Unfortunately Continue Running for the Long Haul

The Sault News: Op-Ed: End the filibuster to protect Indian voting rights

NYTs: Marie Wilcox, Who Saved Her Native Language From Extinction, Dies at 87

AP: Maryland does not display Native American COVID-19 data

NBC News: Blacks, Latinos and Native Americans disproportionally killed by Covid-19 last year, study says

HCN: How the U.S. legal system ignores Tribal law

Kotaradio.com: Sen. Mike Rounds Introduces Tribal Food Sovereignty Act

WTOP.com: Hawaii panel shines light on missing, slain Indigenous girls

Tri-City Herald: Washington Tribes share these environmental concerns with Biden representative

NEH: President Biden Nominates Shelly Lowe (Navajo) to Chair the National Endowment for the Humanities Congratulations to Shelly!

NYTs: Indian Health Service ‘Willfully Ignored’ Sexual Abuse by Doctor, Report Finds

Grist: The Colorado River is drying up. Here’s how that affects Indigenous water rights

Grist: States, tribes, and NGOs hold polluters accountable in a ‘tidal wave’ of greenwashing lawsuits

Mercury News: San Jose State: Professor smiling with Native American skull ignites fiery debate

Navajo-Hopi Observer: First Native American poet laureate Joy Harjo begins third term, releases memoir

Native News Online: Muscogee Nation Citizen Lauren J. King Confirmed by US Senate to Serve as Federal District Judge

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In a second lawsuit brought by the Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe against the City of Seattle regarding the Skagit Hydroelectric Project, the Tribe requests an order restraining Seattle City Light from “greenwashing” itself; i.e., advertising itself as environmentally responsible. The Tribe claims that Seattle should be restrained from greenwashing until the city provides fish passage at its three Skagit River dams.

Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe v Seattle Complaint (King Cty. Super. Ct., Wash.)

Pleadings filed in the Sauk-Suiattle’s earlier ongoing dams/fish passage lawsuit against Seattle are available here.

Sun Herald: This Louisiana tribe lost most of its homes to Hurricane Ida. ‘This was the big one.’

GoSkagit.com: Legal battles unfold during Skagit River dam relicensing

The Circle: Dry conditions boost MN’s wild rice crop, but climate change leaves future uncertain

Red Green and Blue: Line 3 Pipeline is completed, but Water Protectors vow to keep fighting

Cherokee Phoenix: Post-McGirt, Cherokee Nation detention costs jump from $37,000 to $800,000-plus

Denver Post: Colorado’s Native American tribes kept in the dark on Bureau of Land Management decision to move HQ back to D.C.

NYTimes: Teaching About the Native American Fight for Representation, Repatriation and Recognition (with six short lesson plans)

USA Today: What are tribal land acknowledgments? Native American leaders say words and actions are needed

KCBY.com: Coquille Indian Tribe partners with Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife for Chinook Salmon catching

Wisconsin Public Radio: Research looks to mitigate threats to black ash trees in Northern Wisconsin, Black ash trees are important cultural resources on tribal land that grad student Angela Waupochick is hoping to protect

The Independent: Louisiana’s Indigenous communities recovering from Hurricane Ida are watching the coast disappear

WKYC.com: Native American groups look forward to cheering on Cleveland Guardians

Milwaukee Independent: Exploited by Conservatorships – The Sad History of How “Friendly White Lawyers” Swindled Native Americans

NYTs: “In Arizona, Drought Ignites Tensions and Threatens Traditions Among the Hopi“