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Supreme Court affirms Congress's power over Indian affairs, upholds law protecting Native American children

The Supreme Court affirmed the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 law enacted to protect Native American children in the U.S. and strengthen their families, in a June 15, 2023, ruling. Tribal leaders praised the decision as upholding the basic constitutional principles governing the relationships among Native…

The Conversation

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Things to know about the Supreme Court ruling upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act

The Supreme Court has preserved a federal law giving preference to Native American families when it comes to adopting Native children in foster care

The Independent UK

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Native American tribes hail ‘major victory’ after supreme court ruling

Justices ‘on the right side of history’ for upholding protections for Native American children against removal for adoption

The Guardian - US

Deb Haaland and Tribal leaders welcome Supreme Court decision upholding Indian Child Welfare Act

7-2 ruling leaving landmark law intact hailed as victory ‘for all Indigenous children and all Indigenous Nations’

The Independent UK

Tribes cheer Supreme Court ruling on Native American adoption

Supreme court upholds requirement Native Americans must be given preference in adoptions, fostering of Native children.

Al Jazeera

Listen: Why preserving Indigenous languages is so critical to culture

As we look ahead to National Indigenous Peoples Day, guest host Prof. Veldon Coburn speaks with Prof. Frank Deer, Canada Research Chair and associate dean of Indigenous Education at the University of Manitoba to tackle the issue of disappearing Indigenous languages and delve into how much more needs to be…

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Supreme Court upholds adoption law seeking to protect Native American children

WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the landmark federal adoption law that seeks to keep Native American children with tribal families.

Los Angeles Times

Sundance Institute gets $4 million to support Indigenous filmmakers

LOS ANGELES — The nonprofit behind the annual Sundance Film Festival has received its largest endowment ever — totaling $4 million — to fund programs meant to boost Indigenous filmmakers from California tribes.

Los Angeles Times

How traditional Indigenous education helped four lost children survive 40 days in the Amazon jungle

The discovery and rescue of four young Indigenous children, 40 days after the aircraft they were travelling in crashed in the remote Colombian rainforest, was hailed in the international press as a “miracle in the jungle”. But as an anthropologist who has spent more than a year living among the…

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Johnny Depp ‘to donate $1m’ of Amber Heard defamation case settlement to charity

‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star is reportedly donating $200,000 to five different charities, after winning his defamation case against Heard last year

The Independent UK

Mum fled with kids on plane after discovering husband was cheating before Amazon crash

Magdalena Mucutuy Valencia managed to survive for four days after the plane she was on with her children crashed into the Colombian jungle, , and ended up telling them to save themselves for a better chance of being discovered

Daily Mirror

Indigenous community wins, then loses, path to reclaim ancestral rainforest land in Peru

A landmark ruling that an Indigenous community in the Peruvian Amazon could reclaim ancestral rainforests has been set aside by an appellate court

The Independent UK

An Amazon rainforest rite of passage in threatened territory

The Indigenous adolescents danced in a circle under the thatched-roof hut from nearly dawn to dusk while parents looked on from the perimeter

The Independent UK

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Watch these One Sky Project films to explore Indigenous astronomy from home for free (videos)

Seven award-winning films about Indigenous sky stories are now open for personal downloads, or for planetariums to share the traditional knowledge with students.

The Independent UK

Hundreds of tribal members, mostly Navajo, living on Phoenix streets amid fake sober home crackdown

Navajo Nation Attorney General Ethel Branch says Navajo law enforcement teams that fanned out over metro Phoenix in recent weeks made contact with several hundred Native Americans from various tribes living on the streets amid a state crackdown on Medicaid fraud that recruited them to unlicensed sober living homes

The Independent UK

Relatives fight for custody of 4 kids who survived plane crash and weeks in Amazon jungle

A custody battle has broken out among relatives of four Indigenous children who survived a plane crash and 40 harrowing days alone in the Amazon rainforest

The Independent UK

EXPLAINER: Trial begins in tribes' lawsuit over North Dakota redistricting map

A bench trial has begung in Fargo in the federal lawsuit brought last year by two Native American tribes challenging North Dakota's redistricting map the GOP-led Legislature approved in 2021

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Artemis 2 astronaut goes on vision quest to prepare for moon mission

Canadian astronaut Jeremy Hansen deepened his Indigenous knowledge recently with a traditional ceremony known as the vision quest. It was folded into his moon mission training.

The Guardian - US

Rescuers reveal tragic words of children who survived in Colombian jungle

Siblings, who spent more than 40 days in Amazon after plane crash in early May, told of mother’s death when search party arrived

The Guardian - US

Black Panther 2 actor Tenoch Huerta denies allegations of sexual assault

The Marvel star called public allegations by the musician and activist María Elena Ríos ‘false and unsubstantiated’

Daily Mirror

What happens next to kids who survived 40 days in Amazon - and why dad wasn't on plane

The key to the four siblings' remarkable survival in the Amazon jungle teeming with animals, insects and snakes was their familiarity with the rainforest's fruits

The Independent UK

Protest derails planned celebration of 20-year ban on oil drilling near Chaco national park

U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland was supposed visit Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Bangkok Post

Mother of rescued Colombia children survived four days after jungle crash

BOGOTá - The mother of the four Indigenous children rescued after 40 days lost in the Colombian jungle remained alive for four days before succumbing to her injuries suffered in the May 1 plane crash, her widower said Sunday.

The Guardian - UK

Colombian plane crash: mother told children to leave her so they could survive

Details of woman’s final days emerge after four siblings rescued following almost six weeks in Amazon jungle

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