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A new piece of legislation passed for Cherokee citizens will invest $440 million into major health care capital improvements.That funding – a combination of federal American Rescue Plan dollars and third-party insurance revenues – will allow the Nation to build a new, modern hospital on the…

One hundred and thirty-one winters ago, on December 29, 1890, some 150 Lakota men, women and children were massacred by the US 7th Cavalry Regiment near Wounded Knee Creek on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. Some estimate the actual number closer to 300.

The Cobell Scholarship application is now open to any degree-seeking undergraduate or graduate Native American student. The deadline for applicants is March 31st, 2022.

Amaranth has a highly nutritious seed fostered by native communities in the Americas for at least 8000 years. Since the 1970s the plant has been touted by natural health advocates as a near-magical healing plant, but the native history of its cultivation has been left out of that story.