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1 month ago | 
voanews.com | Cecily Hilleary
Tribes and students sue feds over staff cuts at BIE schoolsThree Tribal Nations, along with five Native students, are suing the U.S. Interior Department and the Office of Indian Affairs over mass firings at the Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) and its federally operated schools — Haskell Indian Nations University in Kansas and Southwestern Indian Polytechnic Institute (SIPI) in New Mexico.
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1 month ago | 
voanews.com | Cecily Hilleary
IRS staff cuts leave tribes struggling for answers Tribal advocacy groups are expressing outrage over job cuts at the U.S. Internal Revenue Service’s Office of Indian Tribal Governments (ITG), the agency that guides federally recognized tribes on tax matters. As Tribal Business News reports, tribal governments are tax exempt, but there are some exceptions.
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1 month ago | 
voanews.com | Cecily Hilleary
Julian Brave NoiseCat up for an Oscar at Sunday’s Academy Awards Secwepemc citizens of the Williams Lake First Nation in British Columbia will gather at Academy Award watch parties Sunday as Julian Brave NoiseCat vies for an Oscar for the documentary “Sugarcane.”NoiseCat, a citizen of the Secwepemc Nation's Canim Lake Band, co-directed the film alongside American journalist and filmmaker Emily Kassie.
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2 months ago | 
voanews.com | Cecily Hilleary
Native American tribes report federal funding delaysSome Native American tribes are having difficulties accessing funds for essential services following delays surrounding a temporary White House freeze on thousands of federal programs pending the new administration’s review.
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2 months ago | 
voanews.com | Cecily Hilleary
U.S. President Donald Trump wants Interior Secretary Doug Burgum to come up with a plan to grant the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina what he calls “long overdue” federal recognition, fulfilling a campaign promise he made last September. Federal recognition acknowledges a tribe’s historic existence and its modern status as a “nation within a nation” entitled to govern itself and receive federal benefits, including health care, housing and education.
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2 months ago | 
voanews.com | Cecily Hilleary
Native American groups this week expressed concern that some of U.S. President Donald Trump’s executive orders could challenge tribal sovereignty and Native citizenship. Executive orders signed on Jan. 20 crack down on illegal immigration to the U.S. and mobilize federal law enforcement agencies and the U.S. military to stop, question and detain undocumented immigrants to achieve “complete control” of the southern border.
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2 months ago | 
voanews.com | Cecily Hilleary
Senate Energy Committee approves Trump's pick to lead Department of InteriorThe Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee this week voted 18-2 to approve the nomination of North Dakota Governor Doug Burgum to head the as U.S. Department of Interior. If the full Senate approves, Burgum will oversee 11 bureaus and agencies that manage public lands, minerals, national parks and wildlife refuges. He will also oversee federal trust responsibilities to Indian tribes and Native Alaskans.
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Dec 10, 2024 | 
voanews.com | Cecily Hilleary |Anita Powell
President Joe Biden has created a new national monument on the grounds of a former Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania, which served as the blueprint for hundreds of similar institutions across the United States. “I want everyone to know,” Biden said. “I don't want people forgetting, 10, 20, 30, 50 years from now.”Indian children from 140 tribes were taken from their families, tribes and homelands and forced to spend years at the school in the borough of Carlisle, he noted.
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Dec 9, 2024 | 
voanews.com | Anita Powell |Cecily Hilleary
President Joe Biden on Monday presided over his final White House Tribal Nations Summit by reaching into the nation’s dark past and establishing a new national monument to honor the suffering of thousands of Native children and their families in federal boarding schools in the last century. His proclamation starts a three-year clock to design a monument to be placed at the flagship Carlisle Indian Industrial School in Pennsylvania.
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Nov 26, 2024 | 
soloazar.com | Cecily Hilleary
The Bureau of Indian Affairs has released its final environmental impact statement for the proposed Shiloh Resort and Casino, marking a key step in the tribe's application to place 27 hectares of land into federal trust. The environmental report analyzed the project's potential impacts on air and water quality, wildlife, traffic, and other factors.
