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- 1Senate Indian Affairs Committee Weighs Tribal Land and Sovereignty Bills●Senate Indians Committee Weighs Tribal Land and Sovereignty Bills
The US Senate Committee on Indian Affairs is considering legislation concerning tribal land rights and tribal sovereignty. The bills under review touch on how federal law recognizes and protects Native American tribes' authority over their territories. Observers of federal Indian policy are watching which measures advance out of committee and toward a full Senate vote.
- 2Jury selection begins in Faith Hedgepeth murder trial▼Jury selection in Faith Hedgepeth murder trial begins
Jury selection has started in the trial of the man accused of killing University of North Carolina student Faith Hedgepeth, who was found dead in her Chapel Hill apartment in 2012. The cold case went unsolved for years before an arrest was made in 2021, and the proceedings are drawing close attention in North Carolina and among Native American communities, as Hedgepeth was a member of the Haliwa-Saponi tribe.