In this photo released by NDN Collective, Native American activist Leonard Peltier poses for pictures as he was released from a Florida prison on Tuesday, Feb. 18, 2025, weeks after then-President Joe Biden angered law enforcement officials by commuting his life sentence to home confinement in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. (Angel White Eyes, NDN Collective via AP)
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER, Associated Press BELCOURT, N.D. (AP) — More than 50 years after a shootout on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation landed him in federal prison, Leonard Peltier remains defiant. Despite being convicted and sentenced to life in prison, he maintains his innocence in the killings of two FBI agents in 1975 and sees his newfound freedom —…
Title VI Coordinator Wynema Thurman, left, and Kendall Rosario show off a tribal nations map that will be displayed in one of the several schools in the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s education service area. LISA SNELL | THE CUJ
LISA SNELLThe CUJ MISSION – Youth Services Manager Kendall Rosario needs you to understand what she does and why it is important.She manages the Title VI Indian Education program for the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation (CTUIR).“When I first started, there was a really negative idea of what Title VI was, why we were here,” she said. “Parents…
TRIBAL MEMBERS: This notification formally announces that applications are now being accepted from tribal members who wish to serve on the Commission(s)/Committee(s) listed below. Appointed members will receive a $125.00 stipend per meeting, effective January 1, 2022, once the minutes have been approved and processed on CTUIR paydays.CTUIR is advertising the following positions: 3 Positions for CTUIR Culture Coalition, to…
Russell Eagle Bear, with the Rosebud Sioux Reservation Tribal Council, talks to U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland during a meeting about Native American boarding schools at Sinte Gleska University in Mission, S.D., Saturday, Oct. 15, 2022. Haaland wrapped up her nationwide tour confronting the legacy of the institutions where students were often abused on Sunday, Nov. 5 in Bozeman, Mont.
AP FILE PHOTO BY MATTHEW BROWN
By MORGAN LEE and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Deb Haaland, who championed conservation and clean energy during her tenure as Interior secretary, is running for the Democratic nomination for governor in New Mexico, the nation’s No. 2 oil production state. Haaland, a member of Laguna Pueblo and the nation’s first Native American cabinet secretary…
January 28, 2025 Dear Tribal Members, With the change in presidential administration, we are seeing a flurry of executive orders shaking up Washington, D.C., and the nation. On Monday, Jan. 27, the administration issued a memo halting trillions of dollars in federal grants and loans to eliminate spending on programs. This memo is vague in its call to temporarily pause…
News Release from Oregon Dept. of Revenue SALEM – As the IRS and the state begin accepting tax year 2024 returns today, the Oregon Department of Revenue is offering taxpayers a list of suggestions to aid in efficiently processing their return and common errors to avoid that could slow things down and delay their refund. File electronically, request direct deposit On…
President Calvin Coolidge posed with Indigenous Americans near the White House on Feb. 18, 1925. In 1924, Congress passed the Indian Citizen Act, which gave citizenship to all Native Americans born in the U.S. Since then, several laws have been implemented in an effort to grant rights for Indigenous tribes. Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress
By GRAHAM LEE BREWER and JANIE HAR, Associated Press WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has said since his first administration that he wants to end birthright citizenship, a constitutional right for everyone born in the United States. Last week he issued an executive order that would eliminate it, upending more than a century of precedent. On Jan. 23, however, a…
By COLLEEN LONG, ZEKE MILLER, JOHN HANNA and STEVE KARNOWSKI Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier will return home nearly half a century after he was imprisoned for the 1975 killings of two FBI agents. President Joe Biden commuted Peltier’s sentence Monday following decades of community-led advocacy calling his imprisonment an example of the U.S. government’s mistreatment…
