Nora Mabie
Indigenous Affairs Reporter at Montana Free Press
Indigenous affairs reporter @mtfreepress [email protected]
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1 week ago |
montanafreepress.org | Nora Mabie |Kaiden Forman-Webster
Members of Montana’s American Indian Caucus say the 2025 legislative session may have been the group’s most successful yet. The state’s American Indian Caucus is an organized group of about a dozen Native American lawmakers who work together to advance legislation they say is good for Indian Country, guided by the principle that what’s good for tribal communities is good for Montana as a whole.
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1 week ago |
nbcmontana.com | Nora Mabie |Kaiden Forman-Webster
HELENA, Mont. — From allowing a fledgling task force to raise its own money and requiring the creation of a curriculum on how to prevent human trafficking, new laws aim to address the disproportionately high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous people in Montana. Native Americans in Montana are four times more likely to be reported missing than their counterparts, according to a state Department of Justice report.
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1 week ago |
montanafreepress.org | Nora Mabie |Kaiden Forman-Webster
From allowing a fledgling task force to raise its own money and requiring the creation of a curriculum on how to prevent human trafficking, new laws aim to address the disproportionately high rates of missing and murdered Indigenous people in Montana. Native Americans in Montana are four times more likely to be reported missing than their counterparts, according to a state Department of Justice report.
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2 weeks ago |
montanafreepress.org | Nora Mabie |Kaiden Forman-Webster
Legislation signed May 12 by Gov. Greg Gianforte offers a path toward resolving a long-standing law enforcement dispute between the state of Montana, Lake County and Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes. At the center of the conflict is Public Law 280, a 1950s-era federal law that shifted law enforcement jurisdiction on some Indian reservations from the federal government to certain states.
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2 weeks ago |
ictnews.org | Joaqlin Estus |Nika Bartoo-Smith |Nora Mabie
Posted inNews Arielle ZiontsKFF Health News WINNER, S.D. — Sophie Hofeldt planned to receive prenatal care and give birth at her local hospital, 10 minutes from her house. Instead, she’s driving more than three hours round trip for her appointments. The hospital, Winner Regional Health, recently joined the increasing number of rural hospitals shuttering their birthing units.
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