[August 7, 2020]

Number of days before the only Native American on death row, Lezmond Mitchell, is scheduled to die: 18

Number of days the FBI detained Mitchell in a Navajo jail, depriving him of his federal due process rights: 25

Total votes by the eight-member Turtle Mountain Chippewa Tribal Council who approved a same-sex marriage law: 6

Approximate number of tribal governments out of 574 where same-sex marriage has been legalized: 46

Number of Indigenous candidates in Arizona who advanced in the state’s primary: 14

Number of reconstruction treaties signed by tribes whose citizens engaged in chattel slavery: 4

Total amount the Choctaw and Chickasaw treaty  guaranteed if they agreed to adopt their former slaves: $300,000

Exact federal funding withheld from the Cherokee Nation for abrogating its treaty promise to the Freedmen: $33M

Number of years Marvel Comics featured “Scalphunter” before quietly dropping the racist codename villain: 34

Total acreage of public lands that may soon be managed by a Trump nominee criticized of “overt racism”: 245M

Estimated amount at stake in an oil and gas royalty dispute between the MHA Nation and North Dakota: $200M

Total number of roads the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe will close to Sturgis Motorcycle Rally visitors: 5

Number of people who attended the Zoom funeral of a Hopi professor who turned out to be a Twitter hoax: 4

Total articles about Indigenous women during the debut week of the 19th*, a news website to “empower all women”: 0

Estimated weeks the Osage Nation expects Martin Scorcese will film Killers of the Flower Moon on their reservation: 16