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- By Jackson S. Brossy and Mark Madrid, US Small Business Administration
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Guest Opinion. Native people are rightly skeptical when it comes to federal programs that purport to help them. The Community Navigator Pilot Program, authorized by the American Rescue Plan, seems to have defied this trend, offering tangible benefits, meaningful training, and crucial support to Native communities, including facilitating millions of dollars in financing for small Native American-owned businesses.
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- By Kari Jo Lawrence, Intertribal Agriculture Council, and Chairman Cole Miller, Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community
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Guest Opinion. The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Equity Commission – an independent body with 41 commission and subcommittee members charged with evaluating USDA programs and services and developing recommendations on how USDA can reduce barriers – recently released its Final Report. The report includes 66 recommendations to further advance and embed equity into policies, practices and processes at the agency.
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- By Casey Lozar, Center for Indian Country Development
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By naming our data priorities, partners across Indian Country can collectively move the needle.
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- By Mark Fogarty, Global Ocean Health
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Guest Opinion. Is the development of the carbon removal and greenhouse gas reduction industries offering Indian Country a compelling opportunity to take charge of its own economic destiny and to throw off Native reliance on the assistance of the federal government? Many Natives in economic development activities think so.
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- By Dave Castillo, Native Community Capital
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I heard a Navajo song years ago that continues to hold an important lesson. As a board member for a regional Native professional association, we’d hired a young Navajo man to serve as our executive director. At our annual conference a few months later, he shared with the crowd how the subject matter of our association intimidated him because his formal studies had been in a separate field.
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- By Cody Desautel, Intertribal Timber Council
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Guest Opinion. The continuing failure of the United States to meet its stewardship and trust responsibilities is putting U.S. and tribal forests at risk of catastrophic loss from insects, disease, and wildfire.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Opinion. Fueled by the demands of hard-right House Republicans, the federal government appears to be heading towards a shutdown today at midnight, which marks the end of the federal government’s fiscal year.
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- By Amber Torres, Walker River Paiute Tribe
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Guest Opinion. As a nation and global society, we are still recovering from two life altering events: a pandemic and the Trump presidency. While the memories of these events seem to fade with time, as a former tribal leader, I am here with a stark warning: We cannot forget Donald Trump's record, especially on tribal matters, or that of his supporters and enablers.
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- By Deb Haaland
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Guest Opinion. Before I was Secretary of the Interior, or even a member of Congress, I was an organizer. With signs made on my kitchen floor with poster board and markers, I urged our leaders to act for and invest in Indian Country.
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- By Levi Rickert
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Opinion. Over the past few weeks, legislation that is important to Indian Country passed the U.S. Senate, which is controlled by Democrats who have a slight majority. Those bills are now heading to the U.S. House of Representatives, where Republicans have a slim majority.