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Alaska Native-owned Akima Logistics Service to participate in $835 million helicopter maintenance contract

9 April 2021 Tribal Business News Staff
HERNDON, Va. — Alaska Native-owned Akima Logistics Services LLC has been awarded a contract from a division of the U.S. Air Force to provide helicopter maintenance services. The 10-year “indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity” Rotary Wing Maintenance Contract is for up to $835 million in services for the branch of the U.S. military.

Tribally owned Kaiva Services acquires Tulsa-based federal contractor

06 Apr Economic Development
IVINS, Utah — Tribally owned Kaiva Services LLC has acquired Tulsa-based information systems integrator Banning Contracting Services Inc. in a deal aimed at expanding growth opportunities for the...

Alaska Native-owned Ahtna Marine & Construction forms JV with Wisconsin contractor

February 17 Federal 8(a) Contracting
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. — Ahtna Marine & Construction Co. LLC (AMCC), a subsidiary of Alaska Native corporation Ahtna Inc., has formed a mentor-protege joint venture with Wisconsin-based marine...

Richmond dismisses 2 tribes’ casino proposals

March 26 Gaming
Both Native American tribal candidates have been eliminated for the running for building a casino in Richmond, Va.

THROUGH HER LENS: Anishinaabe photographer Nedahness Rose Greene documents style, social justice activism

March 30 Entrepreneurism
WASHINGTON D.C. — Anishinaabe photographer Nedahness Rose Greene is currently in the nation’s capital capturing a watershed moment in Indigenous activism.

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Amid efforts to grow herd, Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes receive donation of 13 bison from Denver

Food/Agriculture
A group of 13 female bison joined a 500-strong herd on the Cheyenne and Arapaho Tribes’ reservation in Western Oklahoma in early April, thanks to efforts by the city of Denver, Colo. to avoid auctioning off surplus animals.
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Michigan tribe seeks cultural property protection in path of Line 5 project

Energy
The discovery of a potential archaeological site in the Straits of Mackinac last fall has opened the door for a Michigan tribe to pursue a new, longshot legal strategy to stop the planned Line 5 pipeline tunnel project.
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Northwest Native Development Fund offers lifeline to entrepreneurs amid pandemic

Finance
OKANOGAN, Wash. — When COVID-19 sounded alarm bells across the world last winter, photographer and small business owner Roxanne Best watched as her fledgling business suffered one lost gig after another.
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5 Indigenous contemporary artists picked for lucrative Eiteljorg Museum fellowship

Arts and Culture
INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. — Navajo and Laguna Pueblo artist Steven Yazzie applied for the prestigious Eiteljorg Contemporary Arts Fellowship at least three times since the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indian and Western Art in Indianapolis started the program in 1999.
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With innovative addiction clinic, Muckleshoot Tribe offers patients, other tribes a way forward

Health Care
Jody was close to achieving her dream of becoming a writer. A member of the Muckleshoot Tribe near Seattle, she had gone from living on the streets of Seattle as a teen to nearly finishing a creative writing degree, and had plans to get her master’s degree at New York University. But debilitating back pain caused by an injury she sustained as a teen forced her to drop out of school, just a handful of credits shy of her bachelor’s degree.
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American Indian College Fund launches $1.1M effort to improve outcomes in health care, education for Native students

Higher Education
DENVER — Backed by a new grant of more than $1.1 million, the American Indian College Fund plans a pair of new programs at tribal colleges and universities in North Dakota and Montana.
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Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde details plans to reclaim ancestral homeland at Willamette Falls

Real Estate
WILLAMETTE FALLS, Ore. — The Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde is going home.
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Crow serial entrepreneur takes a shot at virtual cultural tourism

Tourism
CROW RESERVATION, Mont. — When the tourists can’t come to Indian Country, Crow entrepreneur Olivia Rose Williamson brings Indian Country to them.
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Landless Alaska Native communities continue push for recognition

Sovereignty
PETERSBURG, Alaska — A municipality in Southeast Alaska on March 12 heard public comments on federal legislation that would allow five landless tribes in the area to form a corporation and be granted acreage within the Tongass National Forest.