A makeshift memorial for the dozens of Indigenous children who died more than a century ago while attending a boarding school that was once located nearby is growing under a tree at a public park in Albuquerque, N.M., Thursday, July 1, 2021. Indigenous activists are concerned that a plaque that noted the site of the burial ground was removed in recent days. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan)

Indigenous questions removal of boarding school plaque

The plaque noted the site of a burial ground for students who attended the school between 1882 and 1933

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The fatal shooting of Stonechild Chiefstick, Cowichan/Cree, on July 3, 2019 spurred marches and calls for justice. The officer who shot him was ultimately cleared by the county prosecutor and a use-of-force review panel. On July 1, 2021, his family filed a federal lawsuit against police and the city of Poulsbo, Washington. (Photo courtesy of the Chiefstick family)

Family of Stonechild Chiefstick files lawsuit over police shooting

Lawsuit says police should have de-escalated the encounter with the Cowichan/Cree man, who was shot and killed July 3, 2019, in a Poulsbo, Washington, park

Deanna Rae StandingCloud, Red Lake Nation, is a powwow emcee. (Photo by Nedahness Greene)

Her powwow voice

The future of the powwow emcee is female. ‘I want lady emcees to be the norm, and I want us to start hearing us at celebrations and seeing us do big things’