PRESS RELEASES

Animal Advocates Call For Wildlife Killing Challenge To Be Cancelled, 01/24/22

National Congress of American Indians Speaks: Dismantle Custer Memorials across the USA, 10/19/21

Custer Falls Again Rally, 6/24/21 

Bills Introduced to Amend Wolf Council, 6/10/21 

Bay Mills Indian Community Bans Enbridge from Straits, 5/11/21

Did Enbridge Intend to Mislead Press and Public?, 4/8/21

The Michigan Anishinaabek Caucus Hosts a Wolf Preservation Townhall, 3/24/21 

Michigan Senate Resolution for Wolf Hunt, 2/25/21

Native Americans not “Something Else”   CNN Exit poll image, 11/09/20

Indigenous People’s Day, Manoomin is the name of Wild Rice 10/12/20

A Good Day for Indigenous People  Decommission Line-5, Indigenous People’s Day, Land Acknowledgment and Universal Healthcare- 09/11/2020

2020 MDP Resolutions 

• Indigenous Peoples Day

• 2020 MDP Resolution for the Shutdown and Decommissioning of Line 5

• Establishment of Special Committee to Draft Indigenous Land Acknowledgement at all MDP Public Meetings

Michigan Women’s Commission Raises Awareness to MMIWG —Caucus Responds, 6/4/2020

Michigan House Water Protection Package, 12/5/19 

T. J. Stephens Steps Up, co-Chairs Anishinaabek Caucus, 7/22/19

Anishinaabek Caucus Laud Nessel Honoring Campaign Promise, Urges Whitmer to Follow Suit, 6/27/19

Line 5/Tunnel Plan Unconstitutional, In Violation of Treaties: Michigan Tribes Calls the Decommissioning of Enbridge’s Line 5, 5/24/19

Anishinaabek Caucus Calls for the Decommissioning of Enbridge’s Line 5, 5/24/19

New Anishinaabek (Indigenous) Caucus Takes Shape in the Michigan Democratic Party, 3/2/19

Anishinaabek Caucus Passes First Resolution: Michigan Tribes to Get Official Recognition in MDP, 2/2/19

Resolution Condemning the use of the term “Redskins”

NEWS & VIDEOS

Several Native American tribes once occupied land now part of Ann Arbor Public Schools, 10/28/23

Whitmer appoints first tribal citizen to Michigan Court of Appeals, 12/6/22

The first tribal member to serve on the Marquette City Commission becomes Mayor, 11/18/22

Caucus member Nicole Biber instrumental in East Lansing's Abbot Road Park name change to Indigenous spirit name for its cottonwood trees, 9/22/22

Bryan Newland, Bay Mills Indian Community, appointed Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Dept. of Interior, 8/10/21

Anishinaabek Caucus Secretary Julie Dye appointed by US Sec'y of the Interior to Advisory Committee on Reconciliation in Place Names , 8/9/22

Tribal citizen nominated to lead National Park Service for first time in history, 8/18/21

Indigenous activists protest Line 5 in Michigan on 20,000-mile journey to DC, 7/29/21

Red Road to DC - PROTECT INDIGENOUS SACRED SITES NOW

Anishinaabe Covid Vaccine Healing Drum Song, 7/14/21

Frank Ettawageshik,  President of the Association on American Indian Affairs first Indigenous recipient of the Michigan Environmental Council's Helen & William Milliken Distinguished Service Award!, 7/8/21  

Bryan Newland, Bay Mills Indian Community, Nominee for Assistant Secretary of Indian Affairs, Department of Interior, 4/22/21

Deb Haaland sworn in as first Indigenous Interior Secretary, 3/18/21

Native Americans in Nevada Mobilize to Protect Their Right to Vote

How Indigenous voters swung the 2020 election, 11/06/20

Native American communities make a final push to get out the vote this November, 9/18/20

All 4 Native candidates in Kansas win their primaries, 8/3/20

Tribal citizens in Michigan’s governance and policy making, Indian Country Today, 3/3/20

At First-Ever Native American Presidential Forum, Candidates Answer to Centuries of Injustice, 8/21/19

GTB members part of caucus creation, Traverse City Record Eagle, 3/12/19

Native Americans overcome North Dakota’s restrictive voter ID laws, turn out in record numbers, 11/8/18