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WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. — On Thursday, the Navajo Department of Health, in coordination with the Navajo Epidemiology Center and the Navajo Area Indian Health Service, reported 45 new Covid-19 positive cases for the Navajo Nation and nine more deaths. The total number of deaths remains 1,161 as of Thursday. Reports indicate that 16,054 individuals have recovered from Covid-19, and 243,703 Covid-19 tests have been administered. The total number of positive Covid-19 cases is now 29,655, including eight delayed reported cases.

Apple TV+ is releasing a world premiere documentary on one of the world's most famous new Grammy-winning artists

One of Indian Country’s largest legislative events brought big speeches and grand ideas from a new administration and federal officials

Relax, here is the news from Thursday, Feb. 25

The consortium is the largest tribal health organization in the U.S.

The Biden Administration's first Indian Affairs Committee hearing focused primarily on what the Native priorities are from tribal leaders in Alaska, Hawaii, Oregon and Washington D.C

The Spokane Tribe of Indians told an Oregon federal judge Thursday that the Grand Coulee Dam is "nothing short of an attempt to permanently destroy a culture" by blocking fish migration while also threatening endangered species such as Southern Resident killer whales.

On the show today Nicole Willis, Chickasaw Nation, tells her story about being affected by COVID-19. Aliyah Chavez is following this historic confirmation hearing for Interior Secretary Designate Deb Haaland

The federal government should not have to release a report to The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal detailing over two decades of sexual abuse committed by a former Indian Health Service pediatrician, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services argued Wednesday.

A Michigan administrative law judge has ruled that a state commission shouldn't review the environmental effects of the entirety of Enbridge Inc.'s Line 5 pipeline but only of a plan to relocate it, despite Michigan's governor pulling an easement for the whole project.

A local health center that serves American Indians and Alaska Natives is further along in the COVID-19 vaccine distribution process than Douglas County as a whole, due to the smaller population size the facility is serving. Haskell Indian Health Center is now serving all American Indians and Alaska Natives who are old enough to qualify to receive the COVID-19 vaccin

The post ‘We Are Able to Protect Our People’: CEO of Haskell Indian Health Center Discusses COVID-19 Vaccine Distribution appeared first on Tribal College Journal of American Indian Higher Education.

Judge Humetewa described how felonies committed on tribal lands are handled in federal district courts, often forcing parties to travel hundreds of miles from reservation lands to Phoenix to argue their case

U.S. Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg vowed Thursday to bolster the federal government's partnerships with state, local, territorial and tribal governments on transportation infrastructure investments, saying his department will prioritize enhancing safety, equity and economic growth and combating climate change.

Three Cree hip hop acts out of Quebec are up for several awards at the first International Indigenous Hip Hop Awards.

No additional deaths were reported

Law graduates across the states are sitting for the grueling two-day bar exam this week despite menstruation-related barriers, such as inadequate menstrual product and bathroom access, which could be eradicated with simple policy tweaks, say law professors Elizabeth Cooper, Margaret Johnson and Marcy Karin.

Congresswoman Deb Haaland testifies during the second day of her confimration hearing for Secretary of the Interior. (Screenshot-Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources)

Senator Daines says he’ll vote against Deb Haaland for Interior Secretary Apache Stronghold files emergency appeal in fight to protect Oak Flat https://www.nativenews.net/wp-content/uploads/2021/02/nnn022521.mp3

The post Thursday, February 25, 2021 appeared first on National Native News, by Antonia Gonzales.

Mayor Carol Leclerc says she has asked the council to consider having an ombudsperson investigate its inclusivity, but Indigenous policy expert Ginger Gosnell-Myers says she doubts such an investigation would be useful.

Members of the Canadian Armed Forces are now on the ground in Pimicikamak, helping the remote northern First Nation battle an outbreak of COVID-19. 

Four canvas walls reinforced with plywood and two-by-fours, along with a few blankets and a wood stove, are Andrew Missewace's only defence against the bitter cold of northwestern Ontario, even when the temperature drops as low as -48 C.