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Just three days after the Bureau of Land Management issued a public land order that prevents mining within 10 miles of Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the House Committee on Natural Resources sent a letter to Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna Pueblo), alleging a conflict of interest and ethics violations.
The House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Federal Lands hosted a legislative hearing last week considering the third attempt at a bill that would block future efforts to remove or rename Mount Rushmore, which is built on stolen, sacred Indigenous land. The bill, H.R. 386, was introduced by U.S. Representative Dusty Johnson (R-S.D.) and is his third effort to pass the bill in the halls of Capitol Hill. The bill aims to prohibit the use of federal funds in any efforts to alter, change, destroy, or remove the monument.
Decades after many other rich countries stopped forcibly sterilizing Indigenous women, numerous activists, doctors, politicians, and at least five class-action lawsuits say the practice has not ended in Canada. A Canadian Senate report last year concluded “this horrific practice is not confined to the past, but clearly is continuing today.”
Keep reading for a full news update.
Government:
Haaland Accused Of Ethics Violations
Native News Online, Darren Thompson, July 16
Law:
House Subcommittee Considers “Racially Motivated” And “Unnecessary” Bill On Mount Rushmore
Native News Online, Darren Thompson, July 15
Health:
NICOA Introduces A New Toolkit To Better Understand Indigenous People Living With Disabilities
Native News Online, Kaili Berg, July 14
Boarding Schools:
Native American Leaders Visit Site Of Archeological Dig To Find Remains Of Boarding School Students
AP News, Trisha Ahmed, July 11
Dig Begins For The Remains Of Children At A Long-Closed Native American Boarding School
AP News, Trisha Ahmed, July 10
Other:
Chaco Canyon Hearing Gets Heated
Native News Online, Darren Thompson, July 15
Navajo Nation Opposes Any Chaco Canyon Buffer Zone
Indian Country Today, Pauly Denetclaw, July 14
Oil And Gas Withdrawal Around Us Park Stirs Debate Over Economic Costs For Native American Tribe
AP News, Susan Montoya Bryan, July 13
Navajo Witnesses Clash Over Government’s Chaco Canyon Mining Ban
Cronkite News, Liam Coates, July 13
Bidenomics Is Delivering For Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, And Pacific Islanders: The President’s Plan Grows The Economy From The Middle Out And Bottom Up—Not The Top Down
The White House, July 13
Indigenous Women In Canada Forcibly Sterilized Decades After Other Rich Countries Stopped
AP News, Maria Cheng, July 12