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[ABC7] California ‘Feather Alert’ bill for missing indigenous peoples passes 6-1

September 8, 2022August 31, 2022 News California Native American, indigenous, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women, native american, Native Americans

NORTHSTATE, Calif. — On Tuesday this week, Aug. 29, Assembly Bill No. 1314 was passed by a vote of 6-1. The bill would authorize a law enforcement agency to request the Department of the California Highway Patrol (CHP) to activate a “Feather Alert,” if specified criteria are satisfied with respect to an endangered indigenous person … Read more

[Anchorage Daily News] Astronaut Nicole Aunapu Mann will make history as the first Native woman to fly into space

August 16, 2022August 13, 2022 News California, California Native American, History, indigenous, indigenous woman, indigenous women, NASA, native american, Native Americans, Round Valley Indian Tribe, Round Valley Indian Tribes, Space, Wailacki

Nicole Aunapu Mann will be making history as the first Native woman to fly into space this fall. Mann, enrolled in Wailacki of the Round Valley Indian Tribes in northern California, will be aboard the SpaceX Crew-5 mission to go to the International Space Station no earlier than Sept. 29. “It’s very exciting,” she told … Read more