by NUNAverse | Sep 23, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
NPR reports that career officials at the Census Bureau tried to send warnings to the Trump administration about how the last-minute decision to shorten the enumeration window by a full month would lead to “fatal” problems with the nationwide headcount. Internal emails...
by NUNAverse | Sep 22, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
Yesterday, Dr. Anthony Fauci took part in a virtual townhall with Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez and Vice President Myron Lizer. Dr. Fauci addressed concerns over upcoming COVID-19 vaccine trials, assuring those in attendance that an independent data and safety...
by NUNAverse | Sep 22, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg passed at the age of 87 on Friday evening from complications from metastatic cancer of the pancreas. Justice Ginsburg was an architect of the legal fight for women’s rights in the 1970’s, and had served on the nation’s highest...
by NUNAverse | Sep 22, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
After Justice Department attorneys missed a deadline for producing a complete record of internal Commerce Department documents, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh extended her order that stopped the 2020 Census from winding down. The order was set to expire yesterday, but...
by NUNAverse | Sep 22, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
We are in the last big push to extend the Census deadline, and need a surge of support to make sure Indian Country is completely counted this Census cycle! Yesterday, a bipartisan bill was introduced into the Senate to extend the enumeration deadline. The Native Voice...
by NUNAverse | Sep 16, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
For the first time in its history, the North Dakota’s Democratic Party will have a Native American Caucus. Three women, Twyla Baker, State Representative Ruth Buffalo, and Prairie Rose Seminole, are currently organizing the caucus with the aim of bringing long-term...
