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Trump administration seeks to roll back protections for imperiled species | OUT WEST ROUNDUP
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MONTANA Endangered species rollback sought BILLINGS — President Donald Trump’s administration moved on Nov. 19 to roll back protections for imperiled species and the places they live, reviving a suite of changes to Endangered Species Act regulations from the Republican’s first term that were blocked under former Democratic President Joe Biden. The proposed changes include…
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Colorado moves to protect Native American students’ right to wear traditional regalia
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Native American students in Colorado may soon be guaranteed the right to wear their traditional regalia to graduation ceremonies – thanks to a new bill passed by the state legislature. If signed into law, Senate Bill 202 will require preschools, K-12 schools, public colleges and universities to allow Native American students to wear and display traditional Native American…
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Judge tells defendant, feds that he cannot legally accept American Indian man’s guilty plea
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Breaking with his colleagues in other states, a federal judge has told the government and an American Indian defendant in Colorado that he cannot accept the parties’ plea deal because Congress has not authorized him to consider the offense. The March 2 decision of U.S. District Court Senior Judge Robert E. Blackburn to reject the…
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Tribal leaders urge changes in sports betting, water rights in first Colorado legislature address
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For the first time in state history, leaders of Colorado’s Ute Mountain Ute Tribe and Southern Ute Indian Tribe gathered at the state Capitol on Wednesday to present their needs to the legislature. The occasion marks the inaugural address from Colorado’s two federally recognized tribes to the state House and Senate, as mandated by Senate…
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A LOOK BACK | Dems attack ‘questionable political morality’ of attorney general
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Fifty Years Ago This Week: In what some Republicans saw at the time to be a partisan election stunt, the Colorado Democratic Party issued a scathing “key issue statement,” charging Republican Colorado Attorney General Duke Dunbar with mismanagement of state funds in the operation of his office. The statement, signed by the Democratic candidate challenging…
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Allegations of racist comment, retaliation against Colorado sheriff tossed
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An American Indian man formerly employed with the Logan County Sheriff’s Office has not plausibly shown he was the victim of discrimination and retaliation, a federal judge has ruled, even though the defendants did not deny the elected sheriff had repeatedly made racist comments to employees. Shadowhawk A. Tiger, who worked as a detention deputy…
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Claims of tribal heritage not enough to trigger ‘Indian child’ protections, state justices say
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Family members’ assertions that a child has American Indian heritage are insufficient to trigger the longstanding federal protections for tribal children in welfare proceedings, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled on Monday. The justices resolved an issue that has split the state’s Court of Appeals and focused attention on a key section of the Indian Child…
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State Supreme Court affirms heightened responsibility for counties to American Indian families
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The Colorado Supreme Court affirmed on Monday that counties have a heightened responsibility to help American Indian families remain together amid child welfare proceedings — a standard that Denver had met despite a mother’s repeated relapses from her treatment program. The justices interpreted a key provision of the Indian Child Welfare Act, a 1978 federal law…
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OUT WEST ROUNDUP | Romney looks ahead after winning Senate nomination
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Utah Romney looks to November after landslide Utah primary win SALT LAKE CITY – Mitt Romney looks like a shoo-in for a U.S. Senate seat from Utah after winning a landslide primary victory and toning down his criticism of Donald Trump, but first he’ll face a Democratic opponent with a distinctly different political outlook. Jenny…
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CSU invites Native American students back after police incident
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Colorado State University is inviting two Native American teenagers pulled from a campus tour by police back to the school, saying it will pick up the tab for them to travel there for a VIP tour with their family. The Fort Collins school also said Friday it would refund the money the…
