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Exhibit Opens at Stewart Indian School Cultural Center Showcases the Regalia Connected with Modern Pow Wow Celebrations
Exhibit Opens at Stewart Indian School Cultural Center Show Showcases the Regalia Connected with Modern Pow Wow Celebrations Carson City – The exhibition, Dancing for the Earth, Dancing for the People: Pow Wow Regalia and Art of the Great Basin at the Great Basin Native Artists Gallery inside the Stewart Indian School Cultural Center & […]
October 10, 2022, Clark County’s 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day
In recognition of Clark County’s 3rd Annual Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Indigenous community will come together with Commissioner Tick Segerblom to celebrate changing the colors of the lights on the iconic welcome sign at the world-famous Las Vegas Strip! Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day fights the invisibility that impacts Natives communities—it is an opportunity to recognize […]
Pyramid Lake Museum honors September 30, National Day of Remembrance
Governor Sisolak Proclaims September 23, 2022 Native American Day in Nevada
CORTEZ MASTO, ROSEN, ANNOUNCE MORE THAN $5M TO WALKER RIVER PAIUTE TRIBE FOR WATER UPGRADES
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) and Jacky Rosen (D-Nev.) announced that the Walker River Paiute Tribe will receive $5.2 million in Economic Development Administration (EDA) grants for improvements to water infrastructure that will boost the local economy. These funds were allocated through the American Rescue Plan’s Indigenous Communities program to support Tribes. […]
Governor Sisolak Proclaims August 9th as Indigenous People’s Day in Nevada
Washoe Tribe, TRPA get $3.4 million to combat aquatic invasive species at Tahoe
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. — The Biden-Harris administration announced that the Department of the Interior’s U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has awarded $3.4 million in funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for cooperative agreements with the Washoe Tribe of California and Nevada and the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency to combat the spread of aquatic invasive species in […]
First Lady Presents, Melissa Melero-Moose
It seems in Nevada, the topography and terrain stretching across our state naturally reflects, without effort, the diversity and history of its people. From urban cities to rural communities, from lush grass valleys to snow-peaked mountain ranges, from 5th generation Nevadans to this land’s indigenous inhabitants for millennia, adaptation to environment is evident everywhere we […]
CORTEZ MASTO ANNOUNCES GRANT FUNDING TO TEACH NORTHERN PAIUTE LANGUAGE
Washington, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) announced that the Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe will receive $299,198 from the Department of Health and Human Services to preserve and teach the Tribe’s native language, the Northern Paiute language, also known as Paviotso. “I’m proud to announce this important grant, which will support the Fort […]