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SBA Launches “Community Navigator Pilot” Program Application

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$100 million competitive grant program to strengthen outreach to businesses in underserved communities enacted through the American Rescue Plan The U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) announced yesterday (May 25)  that it is accepting applications for its new Community Navigator Pilot Program. This new initiative, established by the American Rescue Plan, will leverage a community navigator approach to reach our nation’s smallest businesses, with a priority focus on those owned by socially …

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Bryan Newland Receives Widespread Support to Serve as the Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs

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Source: AP News President Joe Biden’s nominee to the position of Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs at the Interior Department Bryan Newland appeared before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs yesterday. Newland received widespread support from the committee, and tribes have endorsed him as someone who is well-versed in the issues they face, and as a tribal advocate. …

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Indian Affairs Promised To Reform Tribal Jails. We Found Death, Neglect And Disrepair

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Source: NPR, shared by NUNA Consulting Group At least 19 Native men and women have died since 2016 in tribal detention centers overseen by the Interior Department’s Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), according to an investigation by NPR and the Mountain West News Bureau, a collaboration of NPR member stations. Several of them died after correctional …

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Chahta Nowvt Aya: The Journey of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma Comes to Life July 23

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Source: NativeBusinessMag Durant, Ok – The Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma today announced that its new Choctaw Cultural Center, which tells the 14,000-year-history of the Chahta people and represents more than a decade of research and work in creating the space, will officially open July 23 on the prairie land of southeastern Oklahoma in Durant. Featuring rich …

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