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Natasha Rausch

Native American issues reporter and Report for America Corps member Natasha Rausch can be reached at nrausch@forumcomm.com.

Electronic pull tabs, legalized in North Dakota in 2017, are now in all but 3 counties in the state
Editor's note: This is the third installment of a three-part series on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the upper Plains.
Editor's note: This is the first installment of a three-part series on the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women in the upper Plains.
Searchers found clothing of missing woman in Porcupine, N.D.
30-year-old Kara Lynn Mauai was reported missing in November
RAPID CITY, S.D. — Monique "Muffie" Mousseau and Felipa De Leon are going tribe to tribe in South Dakota to advocate for protections and marriage equality for those who are “two spirit” — the modern umbrella term often used in Indigenous communities to define those who identify as LGBTQ.
FOUR BEARS VILLAGE, N.D. — The Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation in western North Dakota is creating a search-and-rescue dive team to help in boating accidents, or even cases of missing and murdered indigenous women.
CROOKSTON, Minn. — Just 85 miles north of Fargo, 68-year-old Beverly Johnson has been making wood and lace for Ojibway snowshoes for three decades in a small workshop.
RED LAKE, Minn. — The Red Lake Band of Chippewa in Minnesota is aiming to increase its enrollment, even as some members want to stick to the status quo.
The people who live on the Lake Traverse Reservation are bands of the Sioux tribe, the Sisseton and the Wahpeton, who form "Oyate," which means "nation."