by NUNAverse | Jun 25, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
While COVID-19 continues to impact all of Indian Country, tribes are still fighting to protect their land and water rights across the country. On Tuesday the National Congress of American Indians hosted a webinar with five tribal nations on “Protecting Tribal Lands...
by NUNAverse | Jun 24, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
The MIT Solve 2020 Indigenous Communities Fellowship is looking for its next class of Fellows! Applications are due on July 7. Six-eight fellows are chosen every year and receive a $10,000 award along with nine months of MIT Solve support. To learn more about the...
by NUNAverse | Jun 23, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient and powerful Indian Country activist Suzan Shown Harjo has tested positive twice for COVID-19 over the last two months. Harjo says she has been asymptomatic, and insists she feels fine. An Indian Health Service hospital serving...
by NUNAverse | Jun 22, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
This past Friday was Juneteenth, the 155th celebration of the day when the last enslaved people in the United States were freed in Galveston, Texas in 1865. On the celebrated holiday, several articles were published in the changing media landscape looking at racial...
by NUNAverse | Jun 19, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
On this day in 1865, two and a half years after President Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation, Union soldiers, led by Major General Gordon Granger, landed at Galveston, Texas with the news that the Civil War had ended and the enslaved were now free. Juneteenth is the...
