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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 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.
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- By Jarrod Compton + Steve Wyett, BOK Financial
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Guest Opinion. What a difference a few months can make. At the start of this year we couldn’t have predicted that the health of the financial system would be right up there as a topic of conversation with the potential for a recession and inflation.
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- By Mark Fogarty, Guest Opinion
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Opinion. Community development financial institutions (CDFIs) are a logical candidate to help tribes increase access to capital for carbon-dioxide removal and greenhouse-gas reduction, as there are currently dozens of them in place and they have access to several funding sources. But they tend to be on the small side, suggesting that a hybrid encompassing another type of financial institution may help.
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- By Chuck Hoskin, Jr.
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Guest Opinion. In the modern economy, competition for jobs and investment is fierce. Large, globalized companies come and go in search of a better deal. Especially in rural and small-town America, whole regions of our country have been left behind.
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- By Casey Lozar, Center for Indian Country Development
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Guest Opinion. For my people, the Salish, when the Mission Valley on the Flathead Reservation is first blanketed with snow, a new cultural season is underway. Traditionally, winter ushers in a time when we tell our stories and reflect on our histories, weaving in life lessons to remind us of where we’ve been and who we want to be as a people, as a Native nation.
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- By Pete Upton, Native CDFI Network (NCN)
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Guest Opinion. No one doubts the need for more affordable capital to deploy in Indian Country. Unfortunately, there is little data to answer the main questions — how much, what kind and what for — that go along with that need.