by NUNAverse | Aug 28, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
The NAACP, Navajo Nation, Chicago, and Los Angeles County are interested in joining the plaintiffs in the National Urban League-led lawsuit over the shortened 2020 Census schedule, the plaintiffs’ attorney Melissa Sherry said during a virtual case management...
by NUNAverse | Aug 27, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
The Milwaukee Bucks refused to play their NBA playoff game yesterday in response to the police shooting of Jacob Blake, prompting all NBA playoff games scheduled yesterday to be postponed. Following this decision, players from the WNBA, MLB, and MLS followed suit in...
by NUNAverse | Aug 26, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
Yesterday, lawyers representing the only Native on death row filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against Attorney General William Barr and several other government officials in an attempt to stop his execution tomorrow. Navajo...
by NUNAverse | Aug 25, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
The Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association has announced the closure of tribal casinos in Oklahoma due to the COVID-19 pandemic caused a drop of nearly $30 million in fees paid to the state. The Oklahoma Indian Gaming Association reported payments totaling $123 million...
by NUNAverse | Aug 24, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
NDN Collective President and CEO Nick Tilsen (Oglala Lakota) and others are asking the South Dakota county official in charge of the prosecution to drop all charges against the Black Hills treaty defenders jailed after protests over President Trump’s July Fourth...
by NUNAverse | Aug 21, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
Judge Amit P. Mehta of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia denied a request by the Shawnee Tribe that would have forced the Treasury Department to hold onto $12 million in relief funding from the CARES Act for the tribe. The tribe argued that their...
