CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/11/20

While tribes across the country continue to wait for CARES Act funding to be distributed, Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin testified before Congress for the first time during the COVID-19 era to discuss the Trump administration’s response to the crisis....

CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/10/20

The U.S. Senate passed the Navajo Utah Water Rights Settlement Act which, if signed into law, would provide critical funding to provide running water to 5,000 Navajo citizens who live in Utah.  Currently, only 40 percent of the residents have running water. “Providing...

CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/09/20

In a motion filed Monday in a DC court, the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation accused the Treasury Department of using a wrong formula when calculating the initial distribution of $4.8 CARES Act funds for tribal governments. “While the Prairie Band has over 4,500...

CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/08/20

A federal judge on Friday ruled in favor of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe and ordered the Department of the Interior to reexamine its previous decision on the tribe’s more than 300 acres in Massachusetts. Judge Paul L. Friedman ruled that the Department...

CARES Act & COVID-19 Media Clips 06/05/20

Despite a curfew exemption from the Minneapolis Mayor’s Office, the American Indian Movement (AIM) Patrol found themselves under attack by both the National Guard and Minnesota State Police, who fired rubber bullets and flash grenades at the AIM patrol while...