Indigenously Index
[September 23, 2020]
Estimated remaining $8B CARES Act funding to be distributed to tribal governments: $320M
Estimated total paid so far to Navajo, Cherokee, and Chickasaw tribes, combined: $1.3B
Percentage of Montanans who favor a ballot-collection law recently upheld in court: 64%
Exact amount DAPL exec, Kelcey Warren, donated to a pro-Trump super PAC: $10M
Total water bodies the Keystone XL pipeline may cross, pending public comment: 729
Number of secret “Pebble Tapes” that exposed political details of Pebble Mine execs: 8
Total naturally spawned salmon returned to Pettit Lake by Shoshone-Bannock Tribes: 26
Total lobster traps central to dayslong discord over Mi’kmaq treaty fishing rights: 350
Number of years a fake treaty has impeded fishing rights for Warm Springs tribes: 155
Total Navajo Nation police officers behind hemp sting “Operation Greener Pastures”: 21
Estimated number of people (many Chinese immigrants) working the hemp farms: 1,000
Estimated total of jobs to be created by Bay Mills Indian Community cannabis company: 17
Number of majority opinions RBG wrote involving federal Indian law cases: 10
Total number of those opinions favoring tribes: 3.5
Total years before the Metropolitan Museum of Art hired a Native curator - ever: 150