by NUNAverse | Feb 21, 2023 | Daily Media Clips
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...
by NUNAverse | Feb 13, 2023 | Daily Media Clips
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...
by NUNAverse | Jan 30, 2023 | Daily Media Clips
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,...
by NUNAverse | Jan 23, 2023 | Daily Media Clips
Good Morning, NUNAverse, Last week, the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and Big Fire Law and Policy Group, filed a lawsuit at the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska on behalf of the Winnebago Tribe...
by NUNAverse | Jan 9, 2023 | Daily Media Clips
Good Morning, NUNAverse, New legislation that strikes down 11 outdated federal laws that discriminated against Native people was signed into law by President Biden on Tuesday, December 27. The Repealing Existing Substandard Provisions Encouraging...
by NUNAverse | Dec 19, 2022 | Daily Media Clips
Good Morning, NUNAverse, The House of Representatives passed the Repealing Existing Substandard Provisions Encouraging Conciliation with Tribes (RESPECT) Act last week, which would abolish 11 outdated federal laws that are related to the treatment of Native...
