by NUNAverse | Jun 15, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
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...
by NUNAverse | Jun 12, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
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...
by NUNAverse | Jun 11, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
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....
by NUNAverse | Jun 10, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
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...
by NUNAverse | Jun 9, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
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...
by NUNAverse | Jun 8, 2020 | Daily Media Clips
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...
