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Senate confirmation hearings for Interior secretary gloss over Native issues

Despite the department's impact on Native communities, nominee and lawmakers overlook Indigenous issues in favor of political pageantry

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Pollution settlement raises questions on equity, justice for American Indians

Unhappy with the status quo? Go vote

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Dog woes: Judge Traynor donates $500 to animal shelter, criminal charges dropped for unleashed pet

Report ties diversion deal to a proposed update of Bismarck’s “running at large” ordinance

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Stagnant Bureau of Indian Affairs enables taxation on the Fort Berthold Indian Reservation

Letter cites federal laws and questions North Dakota’s role and agency oversight

Tribal leaders hand illusionary sovereignty, tax collection to North Dakota state government

MHA Nation alcohol tax sharing agreement with the state likely unconstitutional

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MHA Tax Agreement

Interior Department's 'Land Buy Back' program strips individual Indians of landownership rights

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Uncle Elmer’s letter from the Bureau of Indian Affairs

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Mandaree cowboy meets the Lady In White, the North Sea and a Scottish tavern

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Tribal and national sovereignty should be bound by fiscal responsibility and financial transparency

Fiscal Irresponsibility

So-called leaders diminish integrity of tribal sovereignty when they 'waive' it good-bye

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Tesoro High Plains Pipeline Appraisal: Am I Invisible?

Tesoro High Plains Pipeline trespass on the Fort Berthold Reservation.

21st century Bureau of Indian Affairs following playbook from racist past

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USDA seats full committee for North Dakota Farm Service Agency

By Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

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