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4 November 2024 Chez Oxendine
Indian gaming continues to evolve through some unexpected partnerships and strategic expansions as 2024 enters its final months. From former opponents joining the Seminole Tribe’s mobile platform to the first-ever tribal-REIT financing deal, tribes are finding new ways to grow their gaming operations and strengthen their market positions.
01 Nov
Sometimes the biggest barrier to renewable energy isn’t financing or building the project — it’s getting the power where it needs to go.
November 01
The Department of the Interior is delivering nearly $82 million in federal funding to ensure clean drinking water for tribal communities in the western United States.
November 01
Native American-owned medical products manufacturer Prestige Ameritech, Ltd. acquired a healthcare supply-chain firm in a deal that expands its presence in the medical supply industry.
November 04
OPINION. Older forests on federal lands are being lost to increasingly devastating wildfires, insects, and disease. In June, the U.S. Forest Service published a draft environmental impact statement...
Native-owned cannabis businesses continue to blossom nationwide, but regulatory confusion threatens to stifle that growth. Complex intersections between tribal and state jurisdictions block many...
 
More support for the forest products economy is on the way across three Forest Service grant programs, with tribes among those eligible to tap into the new funding.
In the United States, you're more likely to be struck by lightning than you are to encounter a Native woman-owned business backed by venture capital.
The U.S. Department of Treasury has finished approving more than $500 million in State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) funding for federally recognized tribes, marking the final round of a program aimed at boosting Native American entrepreneurship and small businesses.
Here’s our monthly roundup of tribal gaming coverage, including casino expansions, partnerships, executive changes and and other news.
The Nooksack River in northwestern Washington state used to be so full of salmon that the Lummi Nation, which stewards much of the river, commonly joked they could walk across the water on the backs of the fish.
President Joe Biden is visiting the Gila River Indian Community today bearing significant economic wins for Indian Country – and carrying the weight of a long-awaited apology for one of the darkest chapters in U.S. history.
This month's Tribal Land column dives into uncharted waters. While we typically keep our feet on solid ground, the Chumash Heritage National Marine Sanctuary story reminds us that generational interests and tribal sovereignty extend beyond the coastline.
Robert Bechtold, former vice president of Certified Manufacturing Enterprises, LLC (CME), has agreed to pay $35,000 to resolve allegations that he falsely represented the company's status to obtain set-aside government contracts, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of Florida announced.
A Florida man has been indicted for allegedly selling fake Native American jewelry at art shows across the United States, according to the Department of Justice.
The San Manuel Band of Mission Indians has awarded a $2.2 million grant to UCLA School of Law to support its tribal legal development clinic for the next five years. The funding will cover the clinic's full-time, year-round operations, including staff salaries and program expenses.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Indian Economic Development announced the availability of $1.4 million for a grant program aimed at enhancing tribal tourism initiatives.
Six Indigenous-led projects have been awarded grant funding through the Department of Agriculture’s Regional Conservation Partnership Program (RCPP) that will help advance Native-directed land stewardship and environmental protection.