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Federal lawmakers from Washington have introduced legislation to transfer the Clear Creek Hatchery infrastructure to the Nisqually Indian Tribe, returning federally owned facilities tied to the tribe’s salmon recovery work.
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A bipartisan Senate bill would allow tribes to conduct federally recognized meat inspections at tribally owned processing facilities, a change supporters say could expand bison and other Indigenous food production in Indian Country.
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In 2018, Congress planted the seeds for Native American sovereignty over their food packages and agriculture programs. Eight years later, tribes are still waiting to see whether those seeds will be allowed to grow.
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The Minnesota Court of Appeals has overturned the cannabis-possession conviction of Todd Jeremy Thompson, a White Earth Band of Ojibwe member, ruling that Minnesota lacked jurisdiction to charge him for conduct on the White Earth Reservation.
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National organizations are pushing tribal nations to establish formal agricultural authority, pointing to Oneida Nation and a handful of other early adopters as models for claiming regulatory control before state and local agencies do it by default.
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Two tribally owned markets have begun doubling federal food assistance for fresh produce, giving SNAP shoppers up to $20 in daily matching funds as part of a federally funded push to improve access to healthy foods in rural southeastern Oklahoma.
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Alaska Native communities secured a victory in their fight to maintain federal subsistence fishing protections after the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to hear Alaska's appeal, leaving in place a lower-court ruling that preserves decades of precedent.
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Native agriculture advocates are mounting a coordinated push to help tribal nations take greater control of their agriculture.
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USDA Rural Development has approved a $25 million loan guarantee for the Blue Mountain Mill, a regenerative flour mill under construction at Coyote Business Park on the Umatilla Indian Reservation in northeastern Oregon.
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Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.) and Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-Calif.), along with Sens. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) and Mike Crapo (R-Idaho), reintroduced the Native American Seeds Act on Thursday, legislation that would authorize the Department of the Interior to support tribal seed banks and traditional farming practices.