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  • Jerry Falwell Jr. placed on indefinite leave

    Aug 10, 2020

    Jerry Falwell Jr., president and chancellor of Liberty University, has been placed on indefinite leave by the institution's board of trustees executive committee. "The Executive Committee of Liberty University’s Board of Trustees, acting on behalf of the full Board, met today and requested that Jerry Falwell, Jr. take an indefinite leave of absence from his roles as President and Chancellor of Liberty University, to which he has agreed, effective immediately," the private, Christian university said in a statement Friday. Falwell, who is...

  • Lori Edmo selected as 2020 NAJA-Medill Milestone Achievement Award recipient

    Aug 10, 2020

    EVANSTON, Ill. --- Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism, Media, Integrated Marketing Communications and the Native American Journalists Association (NAJA) have selected Lori Edmo (Shoshone-Bannock) as the 2020 NAJA-Medill Milestone Achievement Award recipient. Edmo is editor of Sho-Ban News. The award honors an individual who has made a lasting effect on media to the benefit of Indigenous communities. It is given jointly by NAJA and Medill to celebrate responsible storytelling and journalism in Native American communities. The...

  • Notice of Funding Opportunity for Tribal Self-Governance Planning and Negotiation Activities

    Jennifer Cooper, Director Office of Tribal Self-Governance|Aug 10, 2020

    The funding opportunity for the Fiscal Year 2021 Tribal Self-Governance Planning and Negotiation Cooperative Agreements, administered by the Office of Tribal Self-Governance , is now available and published in the federal register. The deadline to apply is October 28, 2020. These annual IHS cooperative agreement awards support tribes and tribal organizations with the planning and preparation necessary to assume responsibility for providing health care to their tribal members through the Tribal Self-Governance Program . This program is an...

  • Peterson Leads Biofuels Caucus in Requesting Direct Aid for Renewable Fuel Producers

    Aug 10, 2020

    (WASHINGTON, D.C.) – Today, Representatives Collin C. Peterson (D-MN), Roger Marshall (R-KS), Dave Loebsack, (D-IA) and Rodney Davis (R-IL), co-chairs of the Congressional Biofuels Caucus, led a letter with 31 members of Congress to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, and Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy, to request additional resources for the biofuels sector in the next piece of coronavirus relief legislation. “Biofuels production is a major piece of the rural...

  • Restorative Practices Specialist – 2 1.0 FTE positions available - Red Lake School District, ISD #38

    Aug 10, 2020

    Employment Opportunity Red Lake School District, ISD #38 P.O. Box 499, Red Lake, MN 56671 218-679-3353 ext. 1001 Posted: 08/07/2020; Until Filled Red Lake School District #38 is accepting applications for a Student Engagement & Enrichment Specialist: JOB TITLE: Restorative Practices Specialist – 2 1.0 FTE positions available BUILDING: District Wide REPORTS TO: Building Principal JOB PURPOSE: Within the district's trauma responsive, tiered framework of supports, the Restorative Practices...

  • Six Twin Cities Students Awarded $1,000 from Hy-Vee Foundation Scholarship Program

    Aug 10, 2020

    MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (Aug. 7, 2020) — Hy-Vee, Inc. announces today that six Twin Cities students have each been awarded $1,000 from the Hy-Vee Foundation Scholarship program. In honor of Hy-Vee’s 90th anniversary this year, scholarships were awarded to 90 high school seniors and college students who are part of the Hy-Vee community across the company’s eight-state region. Scholarships were awarded to high school students who work for Hy-Vee, or have a parent who works for the company, and to college students who are employed by Hy-Vee....

  • White House Asked If Trump Could Be Added to Mount Rushmore

    Aug 10, 2020

    In 2019, White House aides reached out to the governor of South Dakota and asked about the process of adding additional presidents to Mount Rushmore, a Republican official familiar with the conversation told the New York Times. So, when the president arrived last month for his July fourth festivities, the governor of the state, Kristi Noem, presented Trump with a four-foot replica of Mount Rushmore that included his face. Adding to the already odd ask is the fact that the federal government is in charge of such matters, not the state, and the...

  • Virus spread forces lockdown on another tribal reservation

    Aug 10, 2020

    HELENA, Mont. -- The Crow Tribe in Montana ordered its members to lock down for two weeks beginning Friday as tribal leaders moved to slow a sharp spike in coronavirus cases and deaths on yet another reservation in the country. Crow Tribe Chairman Alvin Not Afraid said the lockdown is necessary because a stay-at-home order in effect since mid-March has been ineffective. “We cannot afford to risk our future and the risks are just too great for the Crow people,” Not Afraid said. https://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/virus-sp...

  • Days after wife's COVID death, husband loses his life

    Aug 10, 2020

    RIVERTON – COVID-19 has struck multiple members of yet another Northern Arapaho family, as a wife and husband both died this week after contracting the virus. The first three fatalities in Fremont County also were within one tribal family. Billy Crazythunder was hospitalized out-of-county and on a ventilator when his wife, Susan, died Sunday, Aug. 2. She was 75 years old and had what the Wyoming Department of Health described as exacerbating health conditions. https://www.wyomingnews.com/coronavirus/days-after-wife-s-covid...

  • Montana basketball legend Pete Conway shaping young lives with United Tribes

    Aug 10, 2020

    BILLINGS — Pete Conway was a standout player from a heady era of Montana basketball. He was a four-year Billings West Golden Bears letterman, the 1998 Montana Gatorade Player of the Year, Mr. Basketball, and 2002 Big Sky Conference champion with Montana State. He is also a Montana Indian Athletic Hall of Fame. More recently, the 1990s sharpshooter is a seasoned head coach and athletic director entering his sixth year at United Tribes Technical College, a junior college near Bismarck, North Dakota. The Thunderbirds compete in the Mon-Dak...

  • Reservation schools move classes online, cancel sports

    Aug 10, 2020

    CASPER — Four Wind River Reservation-based school districts have announced they'll keep their students at home and learn virtually for the first weeks of this school year, as Fremont County remains the Wyoming county hit hardest by the pandemic and tribal governments continue to institute a limited shelter-in-place order. The four institutions — Fremont County school district Nos. 38, 21 and 14 and St. Stephens Indian School — moved together earlier this month to move their first quarter of instruction entirely online, removing more than...

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