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Atlas Obscura — When Ben Jacobs was a child, his parents launched a business in downtown Denver, Colorado. Grayhorse: An American Indian Eatery, was the first of its kind. But two years into the venture, the family closed the restaurant and moved on.

Indian Country Today — ETHETE, Wyoming - Pamela Lock was running out of options. She'd been a school bus driver on the Wind River Reservation when the pandemic hit. Her son was away at college but was sent home because of the shutdown. Her household bills and his apartment lease continued to pile up.

Mission Local — Penny Schoner, 84, lived happily in the one-bedroom apartment she'd had since the 1980s. That changed in 2012, when Veritas Investments bought her apartment building. Suddenly, she said, management ignored her requests for repairs - including one to remove the wasp's nest that sat outside her bedroom window.

Mission Local — This is part of a collaboration with UC Berkeley's Graduate School of Journalism to look at inequality in the Bay Area. Five motorhomes and seven vehicles sit parked on De Wolf Street in the Outer Mission, under the Balboa Park BART Station rails. They face the back doors of six or seven homes.

Indian Country Today — November marks 50 years since a group of American Indians took over Alcatraz Island in the San Francisco Bay. Local organizers have been preparing by teaching youth how to carve their own canoes. The group will paddle their canoes to Alcatraz this month. Indian Country Today will continue to follow stories about the anniversary of the takeover.

Indian Country Today — Below is a transcript of the video. (SOUND BITE OF SUSAN MASTEN SPEAKING AT THE CONFERENCE) SUSAN MASTEN: I really wanted for there to be an environment where we prepare people for leadership because a lot of people find themselves on council and they have no experience at all and they're making major decisions that, you know, can have an impact for generations.

Indian Country Today — Las Vegas is bigger than life. Casinos that fashion themselves as Paris, New York or Bellagio. The hottest entertainers. And, millions of visitors. It's also home to the largest cannabis dispensary in the world -- owned by the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe.

Indian Country Today — Beth Drost remembers eating lunch at the only log school in Minnesota, the Old Grand Portage Log School, when she was an elementary student. Now, at 41, this was where she learned that she would be the first chairwoman of her tribe.

Indian Country Today — Raven Chacon's culture has influenced his art throughout his career. His new exhibit is a retelling of the Navajo creation story in a way that transcends the traditional form of Native storytelling. "It was a beautiful story that I wanted to reference," said Chacon.

Indian Country Today — After working his normal night shift, Tremayne Nez went home to sleep in his Flagstaff, Arizona, home. Two hours later, he was woken up by his seven-year-old nephew. That's when the police showed up and arrested him thinking he was someone else.