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Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association Welcomes First Tribal Government Member, Sokaogon Chippewa Community
Wisconsin - Announced today, the Sokaogon Chippewa Community Mole Lake Band of Lake Superior Chippewa joins the Indigenous Cannabis Industry Association as the Indigenous-led national cannabis nonprofit’s first member tribe.
The ICIA exists to create opportunities and equity in the cannabis and hemp industries for Indigenous people and tribal
“Access to capital”: Oklahoma tribes are recipients of federal money to help tribal small businesses
By Dacoda McDowell-Wahpekeche
Gaylord News
WASHINGTON – Three Oklahoma tribal nations will receive almost half the initial funding from a new small business initiative from the Biden-Harris Administration announced this week.
The Osage, Chickasaw and Citizen Potawatomi nations will receive small business funding from the American Rescue Plan, created by Congress
Weekly Newsletter
Tribal tobacco compact veto override fails in Oklahoma Senate, but that's not the end of the line
By Peggy Dodd, Allison Herrera
The Senate failed to produce the two-thirds vote requirement to overturn Gov. Kevin Stitt’s veto of Oklahoma’s tribal tobacco compact during special session Monday
Weekly Newsletter
Realty Department assists in ad valorem taxes for at-risk sale of land
An emergency one-time appropriation helped citizens with land taxes
by Morgan Taylor
MVSKOKE RESERVATION – The Muscogee Nation Realty and Trust Services Department provided a one-time, emergency payment to counties within the reservation to prevent the sale of property
Supreme Court rejects challenges to a federal law that prioritizes the adoption of Native American children by Native families or tribes
by Ariane de Vogue
The Supreme Court on Thursday left intact a decades-old law that prioritizes the placement of Native American children with Native families or tribes in child custody proceedings, rejecting challenges brought by several adoptive parents.
The law was passed in 1978 to protect tribal sovereignty after Congress
Weekly Newsletter
Window opening on $11B in energy funding opportunities for tribes
by Chez Oxendine
Two upcoming funding opportunities could help tribes pay for renewable energy projects if the USDA’s Rural Utility Service can coax them to take advantage of the historically underutilized federal loans.
The Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE)
The Gathering Business Summit to champion diversity at River Spirit this July
(TULSA, Okla.) The American Indian Chamber of Commerce of Oklahoma (AICCO) will return to River Spirit Casino and Resort this July for The Gathering Business Summit. Organizers say this year is all about championing more diversity within national economies.
“Our goal is to not just highlight and promote diversity throughout