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The SISTERhood Edit: Interview with Ricki McCarroll

*This post originally appeared on The SISTERhood Edit (July 6, 2020) and can be found here.* In our new series, the Sisterhood Edit, we shine the spotlight on badass, superwomen who are doing amazing things for their community and the world at large. We will be...

NUNA Media Clips Library

Media Clips by NUNA 04/03/23

Good Morning, NUNAverse, The Vatican recently responded to Indigenous demands and formally repudiated the “Doctrine of Discovery,” the theories backed by 15th-century “papal bulls” that legitimized the colonial-era seizure of Native lands and form the basis...

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Media Clips by NUNA 03/27/23

Good Morning, NUNAverse, The Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Arizona v. Navajo Nation, a case that will determine the merits of a 150-year-old promise from the federal government to fulfill the water needs of reservations. The Navajo Nation’s...

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Media Clips by NUNA 03/20/23

Good Morning, NUNAverse, A new addiction treatment center on the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma is making a dent in the proliferation of opioid use on the tribe’s reservation.  Since opening in January of this year, the Cherokee Nation Harm Reduction Program —...

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Media Clips by NUNA 03/13/23

Good Morning, NUNAverse, Peterson Zah, a monumental Navajo Nation leader who guided the tribe through a politically tumultuous era and worked tirelessly to correct wrongdoings against Native people, has died. Zah died last week at a hospital in Fort Defiance,...

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Media Clips by NUNA 03/06/23

Good Morning, NUNAverse, New Mexico’s governor is standing firm in her decision to nominate a former tribal leader who once faced sexual assault charges to head the state’s Indian Affairs Department, fueling anger among Native advocates who have been working...

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Media Clips by NUNA 02/27/23

Good Morning, NUNAverse, The US Marshals Service is teaming up with the Yurok Tribe, based in Northern California, for a new push aimed at addressing cases of Missing and Murdered Indigenous People. The tribe was chosen as the first pilot location for the federal...

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Media Clips by NUNA 02/21/23

Good Morning, NUNAverse, Three tribes have asked the Oklahoma Supreme Court to exempt tribal citizens living and working within their own reservations from personal state income taxes. The tribes argue that because Muscogee (Creek) Nation citizen Alicia Stroble...

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Media Clips by NUNA 02/13/23

Good Morning, NUNAverse, Senators Brian Schatz from Hawai’i and Lisa Murkowski from Alaska were formally elected as Chair and Vice chair, respectively, of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs. Both retain the committee positions they held in the 117th...

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Media Clips by NUNA 01/30/23

Good Morning, NUNAverse, The Canadian government has agreed to pay more than $2 billion to hundreds of Indigenous communities to settle a lawsuit centered around nearly a century of abuse suffered by Native children at residential schools. The lawsuit,...

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