07/23/2022 - EditState

Native American News Roundup July 17-23, 2022 

Here is a summary of Native American-related news around the U.S. this week: Haaland not hindered by leg injury Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, a member of the Laguna Pueblo in New Mexico, is recovering from an injury she incurred while hiking in Virginia’s Shenandoah National Park on Sunday. An Interior Department statement released Monday said she had been treated at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center for a broken tibia of her left leg. That didn’t stop her from returning to work Monday when she hosted tribal and Native Hawaiian community leaders as part of the administration’s Tribalmore

California Enacts Gun Control Law Inspired by Texas Abortion Ban

On 07/23/2022

California’s governor signed into law Friday new gun control legislation modeled on a legal approach used in Texas to curb access to abortions. Last year, well before the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the nationwide right to an abortion, the Republican-controlled state of Texas enacted a new law allowing individuals to sue anyone helping to terminate a pregnancy, if a fetal heartbeat could be detected. The Texas law allowed the individuals who filed the civil complaints, if they won their case, to receive “damages” of at least $10,000. Officials in the heavily Democrat-leaning state of California, where there is solid supportmore