October Proclaimed National Domestic Violence Awareness Month In partnership with the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office on Violence Against Women, First Nations Development Institute is a tech...
October 03, 2012
2012 Update on the Native American Programs Act of 1974 On Sept. 13, 2012, Senator Tim Johnson (D-SD) introduced Senate Bill 3546, a measure to amend the Native American Programs Act of 1974 to reauth...
September 26, 2012
Support the Native American Education Act of 2012 U.S. Sen. Michael Bennet of Colorado introduced The Native American Education Act of 2012 in August. It would direct the federal government to c...
September 24, 2012
Help Reservation Communities Recover from Fires July 2012 will go down as the hottest July on record. Coupled with the worst drought since the 1950s, fires have been ravaging Indian Country. Es...
August 14, 2012
New U.S. Senate Bill Takes Aim at Online Payday Lending On July 24, 2012, three U.S. senators introduced a bill in the U.S. Senate that would crack down on the worst practices of the online payday len...
August 02, 2012
HEARTH ACT Signed into Law President Obama signed the Helping Expedite and Advance Responsible Tribal Homeownership (HEARTH) Act into law on July 30, 2012. The HEARTH Act passed both the House of Repr...
August 01, 2012
Your Action Is Still Needed for Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization The U.S. House and Senate have passed separate versions of the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act. Both authorize...
June 15, 2012
Demand a floor amendment to restore Native protections Yesterday we sent you an Action Alert about the U.S. House of Representatives’ attempt to strip Native American protections from the reauthorizat...
May 10, 2012
Act Now to Preserve Native Protections in the U.S. House Version of the Violence Against Women Act Reauthorization! The Indian Country Today Media Network is reporting that the U.S. House of Represent...
May 08, 2012
On March 7, 2012, The National Indian Health Board sponsored a Tribal Caucus and Briefing on the reauthorization of funding for the Special Diabetes Program for Indians (SDPI). SDPI, established in 19...
April 30, 2012