CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/18/20

Alaska’s congressional delegation is asking federal regulators to investigate whether several banks have unlawfully discriminated against Alaska Natives by refusing to fund Arctic oil and gas projects. Senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, with Representative Don...

CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/17/20

Police in Albuquerque were being criticized Tuesday for not stepping in sooner as a protest over a statue of a Spanish conquistador erupted in violence, leaving one man hospitalized with gunshot wounds. The city of Detroit has removed a bust of explorer Christopher...

CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/16/20

Indian Country Today reports on a study published last week in The Race, Ethnicity and Education Journal on June 8 published the study by Laurel R. Davis-Delano, PhD, of Springfield College; Joseph P. Gone, Aaniiih-Gros Ventre, PhD, Harvard University; and Stephanie...

CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/15/20

A dashboard camera captured video of Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation Chief Allan Adam’s violent arrest in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada on March 10 released late last week show Chief Adam being arrested with excessive force by a Royal Canadian Mounted Police officer...

CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/12/20

Politico reports that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has turned down tribal epidemiologists’ requests for data that it’s making freely available to states, potentially widening health disparities and frustrating tribal leaders already...