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A former employee of the Oglala Sioux Tribe's Tribal Employment Rights Office was sentenced to six years and six months in federal prison for her role in a scheme that diverted more than $4.7 million from the tribe over nearly seven years.
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A former elected official of the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and a former tribal employee have been sentenced to federal prison for embezzling approximately $160,000 from the tribe.
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The University of Oklahoma will launch a one-day program in September aimed at helping tribal leaders navigate federal agencies, laws, appropriations and policy processes.
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A federal proposal to significantly rework grant rules could change how tribes compete for, manage and retain federal funding. Tribal finance experts say governments should prepare now to avoid potential disruptions.
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For more than a decade, Glendon Smith worked inside the tribal court he still calls home. He later served on the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon’s tribal council and as its secretary-treasurer and CEO.
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Disturbed human remains have prompted the Lummi Nation to sue a local telecommunications company, Whatcom County and two federal agencies, alleging excavation work damaged ancestral burial grounds at Point Roberts in northwestern Washington.
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The U.S. House of Representatives unanimously passed bipartisan legislation that would permanently establish the Small Business Administration's Office of Native American Affairs, a move supporters say would strengthen federal support for Native entrepreneurs and tribal economic development.
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Congress has spent decades creating new pathways for tribal self-governance, giving tribal nations greater authority over land leasing, energy development, public safety and other functions long overseen by the federal government. Yet many of those authorities remain underused.
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Proposed cuts to Native-serving programs, staffing losses across federal agencies and growing delays in tribal project approvals dominated a Senate Indian Affairs Committee budget hearing Wednesday, as lawmakers from both parties questioned whether the federal government can continue meeting its treaty and trust obligations to tribes.
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Federal prosecutors have filed a civil fraud complaint against Arizona-based telecommunications contractors accused of inflating costs and billing for nonexistent equipment on a federally funded broadband project on the Rosebud Sioux Reservation.