From AP News: "Mohegan Chief Marilynn “Lynn” Malerba, the nation’s first Native American U.S. treasurer, comes from a line of chiefs who instilled in her the need to keep her tribe healthy and to survive."
Life expectancy of Native Americans in the United States dropped by a shocking 4.7 years during the COVID-19 pandemic, about three times that of whites and by far the most of any ethnic group, according to new CU Boulder research.
The FBI, in an effort to improve the reporting of missing persons on Indian Country, is releasing a list of more than 170 Native Americans it has verified as missing throughout New Mexico and the Navajo Nation. The list was last updated on July 21, 2022.
Native American athlete Jim Thorpe has been reinstated as the sole winner of the 1912 Olympic pentathlon and decathlon in Stockholm - nearly 110 years after being stripped of those gold medals for violations of strict amateurism rules of the time.
Chief Lynn Malerba will become the first Native American to serve as Treasurer of the United States and will lead the newly established Office of Tribal and Native Affairs.
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