Native American Domestic Violence Program Showed Dramatic Success

A domestic violence program funded by the Administration for Children and Families and the Indian Health Service has showed dramatic success at improving the health system’s response at IHS facilities across the United States, according to Building Domestic Violence Health Care Responses: A Promising Practices Report, published by the Family Violence Prevention Fund. The program, [...]

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NLRB Orders Union Election to Be Held at Foxwoods

The National Labor Relations Board’s Regional Office in Connecticut has ordered that a union election be held at Foxwoods Resort and Casino, operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe, according to a press release issued by the NLRB on July 8. The United Food and Commercial Workers Union, Local 371, had filed a petition for the [...]

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$3.4B Indian settlement added to war-funding bill

The U.S. House of Representatives attached a $3.4 billion government settlement with Indian trust beneficiaries to a war-funding bill that it passed just before breaking for the July Fourth holiday. The settlement was one of several additions made to the $80 billion appropriations bill that includes funding for the troop surge in Afghanistan and money [...]

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