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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.

FARGO — The city of Fargo has hired a consultant to begin work on developing a new Native American Center that would act as a resource hub and, eventually, a gathering space for Indigenous people.
FORT BERTHOLD, N.D. — In western North Dakota, on a nearly 1,000,000 acre tract of land, sits the Fort Berthold Reservation, where the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara tribes once united after devastating epidemics of smallpox.
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump signed an executive order Tuesday, Nov. 26, creating a national task force to address the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women.
FORT YATES, N.D. — The Standing Rock Sioux Nation, where thousands of people flocked in 2016 to protest the installment of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, was once part of what was known as the Great Sioux Reservation.
Suicide prevention efforts among tribal nations in the region are growing and working to educate youth and adults about risk factors and signs.
FARGO — The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa once lived on the eastern shores of North America along the Great Salt Lake, aka, the Atlantic Ocean.
MOORHEAD — Kay was in shock when she first started attending school off the White Earth Reservation.
FARGO — Child support enforcers in North Dakota and the Mandan Hidatsa Arikara Nation are looking into why some parents don't pay across state and tribal lines.
The incident reinforced worries about a spill from the highly contested Dakota Access Pipeline and the yet-to-be-installed Keystone XL pipeline.
FORT TOTTEN, N.D. — On the southern shores of Devils Lake in northeast North Dakota sits the 245,000-acre Fort Totten Reservation. The more than 2,000 Dakota people who reside there are the Mni Wakan Oyate, “the people of the Spirit Water.”