✅ Despite the federal shutdown, Northern Circle Indian Housing Authority in Ukiah says housing programs and rental assistance will stay open and fully available to tribal members.
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🪶 Dancing, fry bread & handmade jewelry — Mendocino College’s California Indian Heritage Celebration brought community together to honor Native culture and traditions in Ukiah.
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🎰 California tribes pushed lawmakers to ban online sweepstakes games they see as a threat to their casino rights. Lawmakers passed the bill — now it’s up to Gov. Newsom to decide.
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🪶 Mendocino College will host its annual California Indian Heritage Celebration in Ukiah on Thursday. The free event will feature Native American dance, music, food and art.
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🪶 Native American voices take center stage at a new campfire storytelling series in Caspar.
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🪶 A bill to ensure Native American children and families receive support services aimed at preventing foster care placements passed the California Legislature – now it awaits Gov. Newsom's signature.
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🪶 🚶♀️ The annual Nome Cult Walk begins Sunday in Chico, with dozens of Native Americans walking the 100-mile Konkow Trail of Tears to Covelo.
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💰 Mendocino County nonprofits and tribes are invited to apply for grants for agriculture education and leadership programs. Applications are due Oct. 1.
🔴 At a recent conference in Fort Bragg, advocates called for the Mendocino County Sheriff's Office to hire a tribal liaison to address unsolved Missing and Murdered Indigenous people cases.
💊 A Redwood Valley nonprofit was awarded over $68,000 to address opioid use among Native Americans living in Mendocino County.
🔴 The Noyo Bida Truth Project will host a talk Saturday in Fort Bragg on the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Peoples crisis featuring Dr. Tatiana Cantrell, director of the MMIP program for the Pinoleville Pomo Nation.
🔋 After federal funds were frozen, the Guidiville Band of Pomo Indians pivoted to keep building a solar-powered microgrid and new housing – all while providing important workforce training in growing trades.
🏠 A ribbon-cutting for a new housing complex for unhoused enrolled members of the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians will take place Saturday in Hopland.
🪶 After a century of dams, Native youth paddled 310 miles down the Klamath River to celebrate salmon's return and ancestral resilience. "Our ancestors fought for this." 🛶🐟
Add #SovereignTribalNations to the list of 25 states resisting #Trump's #BudgetCuts !
#NativeCommunities could lose $24.5B under #Trump administration proposal
If upheld by the courts, the proposed freeze on #FederalGrants would affect nearly every tribe
by Amelia Schafer
Excerpt: " 'Nearly all Tribes would be affected by a federal grant freeze, with many facing the prospect of losing tens or even hundreds of millions of dollars — funding that is critical for supporting some of the most historically underserved communities in the United States,' the report concluded.
" 'When the federal government withholds funding from #Tribes and #NativeAmerican people, it’s not just a policy change. It’s a violation of those commitments — putting essential services at risk and undermining Tribal governing capacity.'
"A federal appeals court will decide if the administration has the legal authority to mass-suspend the grants, with arguments set in coming months in a lawsuit filed by the state of New York against President Donald Trump and his top administrators.
" 'as litigation around OMB’s funding freeze continues, it is essential that federal decisionmakers recognize the unique basis of funding for Tribes and #NativeAmerican people,' the report states. 'Funding to #IndianCountry is rooted in longstanding, legally-binding agreements between the United States and sovereign Tribal nations — not race, climate, or DEI.'
"At the beginning of President Donald Trump’s second term, the OMB issued a sweeping order announcing a halt to federal grants nationwide, throwing tribal programs into turmoil.
"Although the grant freeze was temporarily halted, the administration continues to push for its implementation, and tribes continue to report difficulties in accessing the already-approved funds, the report notes.
"The bulk of the at-risk funding is dispersed through programs such as the Department of Health and Human Services [#DHHS], the Bureau of Indian Affairs [#BIA] and the Bureau of Indian Education under the Department of the Interior, the Department of Commerce and the #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency.
"If the funding freeze clears legal hurdles, critical projects across the country will be at risk, the Brookings report said. These projects include a $35 million grant to the #OglalaSioux Tribe for #broadband development, a $3 million grant to urban #NativeHealth board for community health worker training, and a $200,000 grant to the #Chickahominy Indian Tribe for preliminary #engineering and #environmental work towards a #childcare center.
" 'This is the building block of how the U.S. government pays back tribes for the land it took,' Maxim said.
"The report does not include the sweeping cuts approved under Trump’s so-called '#BigBeautifulBill' by Congress, which includes cuts to #Medicaid, #FoodStamps and other social programs that include Native people as well as others, Brookings officials said.
"The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization based in Washington, D.C. Maxim co-authored the report with Glencora Haskins, research associate and applied research manager."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/tribes-could-lose-24-5b-under-trump-administration-proposal/
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🪶 🦅 The bald eagle is now the official U.S. bird — a change that brings pride and hope to many Native Americans who have long honored it as sacred.
How does the eagle fit into your tribal traditions?
🧑🚒 On a warm day near Covelo, community members partnered with fire officials to implement a prescribed burn, reducing the risk of wildfires. It might be the first, but it won't be the last.
That's an, uh, **extremely suspect** phrasing there, school textbook - Lemmy.World
🪶 From our nonprofit partners at CalMatters: Many school districts require students to undergo a lengthy process if they want to wear tribal or other cultural regalia at graduation. A new bill would eliminate those obstacles.
🪶 Friday's Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Crisis Awareness and Call for Action in Ukiah features keynote speakers Al Pooley, founder of Native American Fatherhood & Families Association, and Mark Pooley, a retired detective who helps solve MMIP cases.
