November 19, 2021 Interior Secretary Deb Haaland moves to ban the word ‘squaw’ from federal lands Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland formally declared “squaw” to be a derogatory term Friday and ordered a task force to find replacement names for valleys, lakes, creeks and other sites on federal [...]

November 15, 2021 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Justice Department Awards Nearly $104 Million to Help Crime Victims in Indian Country The Office for Victims of Crime (OVC), a component of the Department of Justice’s Office of Justice Programs (OJP), has awarded nearly $104 million to serve victims in tribal communities, [...]

November 15, 2021 President Biden Signs Executive Order on Improving Public Safety and Criminal Justice for Native Americans and Addressing the Crisis of Missing or Murdered Indigenous People “By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I [...]