Efforts to investigate the fates of missing and murdered Indigenous people are getting a $16 million boost in the Golden State. California will be providing grants to federally recognized Indian tribes in the state to identify, investigate and publicize cases involving missing and murdered Indigenous people. There are 13 federally recognized tribes in the Inland Empire. I am glad that these items that will benefit our community and others around the state have been funded,” says Assemblyman James Ramos, D-San Bernardino, the first and only California Native American to serve in the state legislature, “The funds will make a difference.”
A parochial school on the Pine Ridge Reservation has been around for 135 years and is being renamed in Lakota. Red Cloud Indian School will be renamed Ma^píya Lúta –- a translation of Chief Red Cloud’s name. The school was founded by Jesuits in 1888. It now has about 600 students. Jennifer Irving, vice president of communications and marketing, said the idea for the name change came from the school’s athletes, who wanted the Lakota language name on their team jerseys.
Those are your headlines at this hour. I’m Colette Keith in the KIPI News center.
