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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland joined the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes over the weekend in celebrating the return of a western Montana bison range to tribal hands.
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The U.S. Department of the Interior released suggested replacement names this week for nearly 700 geographic fixtures nationwide that use a derogatory term for Native American women.
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Today Indigenous people all over the U.S. are wearing orange to commemorate the survivors of federal Bureau of Indian Affairs-run boarding schools. This morning the Department of the Interior announced the next step to catalog the impact of these schools.
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MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Dozens of American Indian tribes, including in Montana and Wyoming, are demanding the Biden administration enact emergency protections for gray wolves.
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Last week, 21 members of U.S. Congress signed a letter calling for the Indian Health Service to provide more resources to support those affected by Federal Indian Boarding Schools.
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The White House has announced their pick for the director of the National Park service.
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Fort Shaw was a military fort during the late 1800s. A year after the Fort was abandoned by the US military the Fort Shaw Indian Boarding School was opened. Indigenous advocates remember sorted family histories and grapple with a new federal initiative to better understand the impact of boarding schools throughout Montana and the U.S.
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Montana’s congressional delegation is asking the Biden administration to help farmers deal with extreme drought conditions as the state heats up....
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Interior Secretary Deb Haaland this week released plans to address the U.S.’s fraught history with federally run residential schools aimed at assimilating Indigenous children into white Western culture.