This year’s lifting of the ban on federal funding for syringe exchange promises for a renewed and dynamic collaboration between public health officials and grassroots organizations. This is an opportunity to uphold the right to health and dignity of this marginalized community. We hope you will jo...
National Intertribal Tax Alliance (NITA) Seventh Annual ConferenceC. Baird Brown
WASHINGTON * President Donald Trump signed presidential proclamations to shrink two Utah national monuments in a move that Native American tribal leaders, clergy and environmentalists have described as the largest elimination of protective status for land in U.S. Trump cuts national monument According...
This year, the conference will be held in person at the George Washington University Milken Institute School of Public Health (and will be livestreamed via YouTube). Continuing legal education (CLE) credit will be offered in select states for in-person attendees only. Please check ELI’s ...
Now, tribal members are hoping to return to the Kuwahi name. The Cherokee Nation once spread across what is now Georgia, North Carolina, Tennessee and Alabama. In 1838, the tribe was forcibly relocated to present-day Oklahoma—in what was later known as the “Trail of Tears”. Through ...
U.S. District Court Judge Sharon Gleason heard oral arguments Thursday in a lawsuit filed by two of Alaska’s largest tribal groups against federal managers of the state’s groundfish trawl fisheries. The Association of Village Council Presidents and the Tanana Chiefs Conference claim the federal ...
Shegaon health officer Dr. Deepali Bahekar told reporters. As many as 30 people from Kalvad, Bondgaon, and Hingna villages in Shegaon taluka were found to be suffering from hair loss and baldness during the survey conducted by the Zilla Parishad's health department, officials said. The dep...
Some of the featured international keynote speakers are Matthew Tafoya, Director at Navajo Technical University Innovation Centre USA, Indigenous development specialists Dr. Joseph B. Stone, an Amskapi Pikuni (Blackfeet Indian) tribal member from Northern Montana USA and world-renown Maori health...
“I have been working for years to build relationships with our tribes. My state agencies and departments have worked with tribal leaders on a daily basis to deliver services to tribal communities including healthcare, economic development, social services, housing, food programs, suicide prevention,...
Community, tribal, private sector, and labor leaders also weighed in on the opportunities that decarbonization provided. Panelists noted that climate action presents economic opportunities to all parts of society, from energy workers to vehicle manufacturers, from large businesses to small. In ...