On Saturday, May 31, The Children’s Memorial hosted hundreds of community members in a dedication ceremony for a sculpture that honors the nearly 50 Indigenous children who died while attending the Rapid City Indian School a hundred years ago. Community and local leaders spoke of the memorial’s significance to the local community and that it pays respects to children lost in the boarding school era.
Read MoreThe recent death of an inmate at a Bureau of Indian Affairs regulated jail in northern Minnesota is one of several in the last several years. The troubled detention center on the Red Lake Indian Reservation has had several deaths in the last several years and is currently in court for negligence and violating an inmate’s civil rights.
Read MoreOn the very day that the United States has reached a record 100,000 confirmed cases of the coronavirus and our Tribe is desperately struggling with responding to this devastating pandemic -- the Bureau of Indian Affairs informed me that the Secretary of the Interior has ordered that Mashpee Wampanoag reservation be disestablished.
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