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Cree TikTok creator shows her culture through videos of her dancing at powwows

By Kalle Benallie

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Much of rural Alaska lacks regular veterinary care

Hawai'i’s Mauna Loa erupts, people warned to prepare

Southeast Alaska village welcomes artifacts back home

Canada's Indigenous Services agency is failing

Harvard announces return of Native hair samples

Métis creator sees digital network as a ‘cultural hub’

Meet Shauna White Bear, moccasin maker

Murder charges against Indigenous land defenders

Little Cherokee Seeds aims to create Cherokee speakers

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The Navajo Nation primary election recount is underway this week in Window Rock, Arizona, the capital of the nation. Nearly 48,000 ballots will be recounted by machine and hand. (Photo by Pauly Denetclaw)
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2022 tribal council elections so far

Tribal citizens head to the polls in 2022 #NativeVote22

By Kalle Benallie
Johnston Gate, Cambridge - Harvard Square: Harvard University - was built in 1889 by McKim, Mead, and White. It is Harvard's earliest example of Colonial Revival architecture, a style which became the campus standard over the next century. Named for Samuel Johnston, Class of 1855, it was the the first gate around Harvard Yard. Built of salvaged bricks chosen for their varied texture and color, the structure also helped to popularize what has come to be known in the building trade as "Harvard water-struck brick," used on most Harvard buildings since that time. Johnston Gate bears two plaques inscribed with the earliest records of Harvard's founding, an inscription from "New England's First Fruits" (1643) and the records of the General Court of Massachusetts Bay establishing the College. Harvard University (officially The President and Fellows of Harvard College), a private Ivy League university, was established in 1636 by the colonial Massachusetts legislature. Harvard is the first corporation chartered in the United States and oldest institution of higher learning in the United States.
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The Wrap: Remnants of Native children returned

Indigenous headlines for Monday, Nov. 28, 2022

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A black tote holding Alaska Native artifacts sits on the ground of the Juneau International Airport Thursday afternoon. It was flown from Seattle after being filled with 25 Alaska Native artifacts held at George Fox University in Oregon. ( Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire)
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Southeast Alaska village welcomes artifacts back home

Some of the pieces are estimated to be more than 200 years old

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Lummi poet curates anthology

Earth, Fire and Wind

Veterans honored through sculpture

The National Native American Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C., on November 11, 2021. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, Indian Country Today)

Veterans Memorial unveiled

James Ramos, Serrano and Cahuilla, declares victory in his bid for reelection to the California State Assembly, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2022. He will return for a third term. Ramos is the first California Native American to be elected to this office. He will represent the newly redrawn District 45. It covers parts of southern California. Ramos remains the only Indigenous person serving in the state's Assembly. (Patty Talahongva, ICT)

Indigenous leaders elected

The Navajo Nation primary election recount will cost around $180,000 to review some 48,000 ballots by machine and hand over the next few days in Window Rock, Arizona. (Photo by Pauly Denetclaw)

Native vote coverage

Native Vote

James Ramos, Serrano and Cahuilla, declares victory in his bid for reelection to the California State Assembly, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2022. He will return for a third term. Ramos is the first California Native American to be elected to this office. He will represent the newly redrawn District 45. It covers parts of southern California. Ramos remains the only Indigenous person serving in the state's Assembly. (Patty Talahongva, ICT)

Indigenous leaders elected

On the Wednesday edition of the ICT Newscast, we continue our Native Vote coverage of the 2022 midterm elections from San Bernardino, California. From major federal, state and tribal elections, Holly Cook Macarro recaps the major races

By ICT

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Chef Jessica Pamonicutt and her Ketapanen Kitchen catered an eveny on Sept. 28, 2022, at the University of Illinois Chicago featuring a variety of Indigenous foods with a modern twist, including blueberry and bison tamales, wild rice meatballs, carrot soup, medicine berry moose and watermelon. For dessert, she prepared pumpkin bread and pumpkin cake balls.  Pamonicutt is a citizen of the Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin. (Photo by Amelia Schafer for ICT)

Menominee chef paves way for Indigenous cuisine in Chicago

Ketapanen Kitchen will be featured at the Field Museum during November

By Amelia Schafer
Ho-Chunk filmmaker Sky Hopinka is among two Indigenous winners of the 2022 MacArthur Fellowships, an $800,000 award known as a Genius Grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Hopinka is a filmmaker, video artist and photographer who creates new forms of cinema that center Indigenous perspectives. Botanist Robin Wall Kimmerer, Citizen Band Potawatomi, was also awarded a 2022 fellowship. She is author of the book, “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants.”(Photo courtesy of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation)

MacArthur 'Genius Grants' awarded to Indigenous filmmaker, botanist

Sky Hopinka and Robin Wall Kimmerer are among 25 winners awarded $800,000 grants for 2022 *Correction

By Sandra Hale Schulman
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How an Afro-Indigenous TikTok creator shares her culture

Native American Heritage Month is highlighting the impact of #NativeTikTok

By Kalle Benallie
Young Inuit teens battle aliens threatening their Arctic hometown in the new sci-fi thriller, "Slash/Back," co-authored and directed by Nyla Innuksuk. The film debuted Oct. 21, 2022. (Photo courtesy of Mixtape SB Productions)

Indigenous girls take on aliens in ‘Slash/Back’

New sci-fi thriller features unlikely heroines and an Indigenous cast

By Sandra Hale Schulman
Creative Producer Jhane Myers, Comanche/Blackfeet, is shown behind the scenes of 20th Century Studio’s film, "Prey," released in 2022. (Photo by David Bukach, courtesy of 20th Century Studios)

‘I just wanted to make a good movie with a Native woman hero’

Jhane Myers talks with ICT about hitting the mark in ‘Prey’

By Alex Jacobs

Opinion

Ian Record, Ph.D. is a consultant who works with Native nations and organizations on workforce development, economic development, and related federal policy and tribal governance issues. (Photo courtesy of Ian Record)

Biden Administration righted a tribal workforce development wrong

By Ian Record
Secretary Deb Haaland and First Lady Jill Biden at the White House's Native American Heritage Month celebration on November 15, 2022. (Pauly Denetclaw, ICT)

‘Shattering glass ceilings’ from the White House to space

By Pauly Denetclaw
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Defending ICWA: The next fight over tribal sovereignty

By Nathan Tanner

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A member of Australia's Stolen Generation wipes away tear in this file photo from 2008 as Australia's then-Prime Minister Kevin Rudd apologizes to Indigenous people. The apology was directed at tens of thousands of Aborigines forcibly taken from their families as children under now-abandoned assimilation policies. As of November 2022, two Australian states are still considering whether or how to pay reparations for the injustice.  (AP Photo/Mark Baker, File)
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GLOBAL INDIGENOUS: Stolen children, climate and film recognition

Bison once roamed North America, from coast to coast, from Alaska to Mexico. Several groups, including the Nature Conservancy, have been working to re-establish the native grazing animals to lands owned and managed by Native Americans. (Chris Helzer/The Nature Conservancy)
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The Wrap: Buffalo dreams

The Havasupai Tribe and Grand Canyon National Park announced Monday, Nov. 21, 2022, that Indian Garden will be renamed Havasupai Gardens. (Courtesy photo)
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Popular campground changes offensive name to Havasupai Gardens

A view of Waikiki, HA, March 25, 2022 (Photo by Joaqlin Estus, ICT)
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2 Native Hawaiian men guilty of hate crime

Families searching for missing relatives gather outside the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque, N.M. on Feb. 24, 2022. (Photo by Sharon Chischilly for Source NM)
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More funding needed to investigate missing Indigenous people

When it comes to health and wellness, Indigenous perspectives are often overlooked — but experts “Chelsey Luger and Thosh Collins” are working to change that. They recently co-authored the book called “The Seven Circles: Indigenous Teachings for Living Well.” Chelsey join us in-studio today to talk about reclaiming ancient wisdom. Photo by Thosh Collins
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New book highlights Indigenous wellbeing

FILE - In this photo provided by the Washington State Department of Natural Resources, a crane and boats are anchored next to a collapsed "net pen" used by Cooke Aquaculture Pacific to farm Atlantic Salmon near Cypress Island in Washington state on Aug. 28, 2017, after a failure of the nets allowed tens of thousands of the nonnative fish to escape. A Washington state jury on Wednesday, June 22, 2022, awarded the Lummi Indian tribe $595,000 over the 2017 collapse of the net pen where Atlantic salmon were being raised, an event that elicited fears of damage to wild salmon runs and prompted the Legislature to ban the farming of the nonnative fish. (David Bergvall/Washington State Department of Natural Resources via AP, File)
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Fish-farming net pens banned, citing salmon threat

Bison, also known as buffalo, walk in a herd inside a corral at Badlands National Park, on Oct. 13, 2022, near Wall, S.D. The wild animals were corralled for transfer to Native American tribes, part of an effort by Indigenous groups working with federal officials to expand the number of bison on reservations. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown)
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Bison spread as tribes reclaim stewardship

A black tote holding Alaska Native artifacts sits on the ground of the Juneau International Airport Thursday afternoon. It was flown from Seattle after being filled with 25 Alaska Native artifacts held at George Fox University in Oregon. ( Clarise Larson / Juneau Empire)
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Southeast Alaska village welcomes artifacts back home

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