SPRINGFIELD – The Illinois State Museum will host four virtual panel discussions as part of its "Understanding Native American Sovereignty Series" beginning Jan
will mark native american history month by kicking off its annual tribal nations summit. representatives from tribes across the country will meet with imagination officials to discuss the important issues facing their communities. the senate comes as many within those communities are anxious in watching the supreme court reviews breaking v holland, the case that challenges the indian child welfare act. tribal leaders argue that striking down the law would jeopardize the well-being of thousands of indigenous children while threatening the very notion of native american sovereignty. here to discuss is rebecca, the chair cherokee writer, author, and host of crooked medias this land podcast. thank you so much for having me. i want to start with the basics. really grounding us in the importance and significance of the indian child welfare act. why congress enacted this over four decades ago. can we start there? absolutely. when it was passed in the late
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the balloon and end the speculation. there s a lot of pressure on joe manchin in a way that s different than what we saw with heidi heitkamp and it s this. joe manchin has been very popular in his home state. a former governor who has now been in the september for a couple of terms. he s in a tough race as well this november against the state s attorney general patrick morrisey. president trump has been to west virginia seven times in the time that he s been in office. brought a lot of pressure there. it is also notable that manchin and flake are good friends across the aisle. you could almost imagine a scenario where jeff flake decides he s voting no but manchin would be a yes. or you d have the combination where murkowski could be a no and she s got reasons that have to do with alaska s native american community and judge kavanaugh s record on federal lands and sovereignty as an issue. that s not the thing we talk about typically in national news but in alaska, native american