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Stephanie Woodard

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Western Shoshone, Te-Moak, Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone, Repatriation, Sacred Sites, Native American Sacred Sites, Battle Mountain Band, Gold Mining, Klondex Mines, Nevada, Yomba Shoshone Tribe, Regalia, South Dakota, Mark Amodei, Archaeologists, Native American Artifacts, Reggie Sope, Shoshone-Paiute Tribe, Hunting and Gathering, Joseph Holley, Medicine Men, 1872 Mining Act, Mining Law of 1872, Gold Extraction, Silver Extraction, Mineral Extraction, Western Shoshone Elders, Native American Culture, South Africa, Canada, Cheatgrass, Great Basin, University of Nevada-Reno, Sagebrush, Indigenous Diet, Wildfires, Prayer Circles, Sweat Lodge, Arrowheads, Spear Points, Ted Howard, Looting, Ethnic Cleansing, Standing Rock Sioux, DAPL, Dakota Access Pipeline, Open-Pit Mining, Tribal Sovereignty, Historic Preservation, Shoshone Language
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After the Fire: Western Shoshones Repatriate Thousands of Acres of Sacred Sites

By Stephanie Woodard
Donita Loudner, Voting Rights, Crow Creek Sioux Tribe
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Native Voting Rights—Back to the Drawing Board in South Dakota?

By Stephanie Woodard
Leah Brady, from the Elko Band of the Te-Moak Tribe of Western Shoshone.
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Weaving the Past into the Present

By Stephanie Woodard
South Dakota Voting
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Native Voting Rights in South Dakota—We Do the Math

By Stephanie Woodard
The Yankton Sioux tribal flag snaps in a stiff Northern Plains breeze above a powwow on the tribe's South Dakota reservation. The tribe is one of seven Sioux nations participating in the Oceti Sakowin Power Authority, which is building capacity to use that wind to supply clean, sustainable energy in a region experts call "the Saudi Arabia of wind power."
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It’s Clear Sailing for a Giant Sioux Wind Power Enterprise

By Stephanie Woodard
ICMN MAGAZINE_1_April_May_2017_Page_044-45_A Point In Time_Flintknapping_Joseph Holley in the Tosawihi Complex
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A Point In Time

By Stephanie Woodard
Seth Jones fitted a chert blade into this carved eagle-head handle. Jones makes stone blade knives that he uses and sells.
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Stone Blade Knives: Benefits of An Ancient Technology

By Stephanie Woodard
Police shot Lisa Earl's daughter, Jackie Salyers (shown in poster), on January 28, 2016, during a failed attempt to arrest her boyfriend. At her daughter's funeral, Earl called for justice for everyone impacted by police violence.
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Native Lives Matter—Puyallups Take the Lead in Washington State

By Stephanie Woodard
Button commemorating the 2012 death of Marlee Kanosh’s brother, Corey, created by the advocacy group National Unity Against Police Brutality.
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A Deadly Month: Police Shootings of Natives Spike in October

By Stephanie Woodard
Voters head for the 2016 federal-election polling place in the Montezuma Creek fire station, in the portion of the Navajo Nation that overlaps San Juan County, Utah.
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Election Day Turmoil in Utah Portion of Navajo Nation

By Stephanie Woodard
Documentary filmmaker Joel Freedman with Joseph Holley, former chairman and now councilman of the Battle Mountain Band of Te-Moak Western Shoshone, seen here in the Tosawihi Complex, a sacred landscape encompassing scores of square miles in the traditional tribal homeland, now federal land administered by the Bureau of Land Management.
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‘They Are Still Here’—New Western Shoshone Documentary Underway

By Stephanie Woodard
Federal voting-rights lawsuit plaintiff and registered voter Johnny Williams casts an early ballot at a just-opened office on his Walker River Paiute Tribe homeland.
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Paiutes Triumph in Court—Early Voting ‘In Full Swing’ on Two Reservations

By Stephanie Woodard
On a trip to Tosawihi, Joseph Holley, of the Battle Mountain Band, shows his grandson an old mining-related structure.
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Culture Held Captive—Tribal Members Want Patrimony Returned

By Stephanie Woodard
Niveah Holley takes a close look at a very sticky pine cone.
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Pine Nuts—Sacred Staple from Highland Forests

By Stephanie Woodard
Bobby Sanchez, chairman of the Walker River Paiute Tribe, was lead plaintiff in a recent successful federal voting-rights lawsuit.
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Victory Lap for Paiutes and the Native Vote

By Stephanie Woodard
Tosawihi Complex, a contemporary Native cultural landscape with roots in the deep past.
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Sacred Site Under Siege—Ravaging the Past

By Stephanie Woodard
Depiction of travel for Nevada tribes as it pertains to voting.
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Native Voters in Nevada Can Swing This Election

By Stephanie Woodard
“My grandchildren try to be quiet when I work on my papers,” said Blackfeet tribal member Leona Gopher, with (standing) Dawaunn Wahsise and (seated left to right) Sophia, Naima and Jonathan Soria and Mathius Strong. Gopher has struggled for years to straighten out federally created confusion and low payments related to reservation properties she co-owns.
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Big Government Gone Wild—How the BIA Helps Corporations Plunder Native Land

By Stephanie Woodard
Traveling long distances to vote disenfranchises tribal members in Nevada, says a new federal voting-rights lawsuit.
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Nevada Billionaires Have Equal Rights, But Not Natives, Say Paiute

By Stephanie Woodard
Nevada tribal members face extreme equal-rights barriers during national elections. These range from minimal or even no on-reservation election services to the vast distances they must travel to vote off reservation.
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Zero Is Not Enough—Nevada Tribes Demand Equal Voting Rights

By Stephanie Woodard
On June 22, members of the Battle Mountain Band of Te-Moak Western Shoshone visited a northern Nevada sacred site called the Tosawihi Quarries to view recent destruction. The damage includes this road the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) allowed to be bulldozed over an ancient doctoring trail that is essential to Shoshone culture. The construction work encompasses building a power line to support gold-mining activities.
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Down and Dirty: 11 Photos Show Destruction Accelerating at Sacred Site

By Stephanie Woodard
The Bureau of Land Management has allowed a mining company to destroy an ancient doctoring trail in a 10,000-year-old sacred site revered by the Western Shoshone and numerous other Plains tribes.
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Gods and Monsters: Bulldozer Rips Into Ancient Sacred Site

By Stephanie Woodard
A shrine commemorating the life and passing of Puyallup tribal member Jacqueline Salyers and her unborn child.
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Family of Native Mother Shot by Cop Plans Peaceful March, Wants Justice

By Stephanie Woodard
Puyallup tribal member Jacqueline Salyers was fatally shot by Tacoma police January 28. Family, friends and members of the extended Tacoma community have met to plan a March 16 march, “Justice for Jackie,” to demand answers about her death. Here, they are shown on March 1 at the Puyallup Tribe's youth center.
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Native Woman Shot Dead by Cop Was Pregnant, Family Learns After Her Burial

By Stephanie Woodard
A view of Navajo Mountain. Tribal members in a town of the same name vote in San Juan County.
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Major Navajo Nation Voting Rights Win

By Stephanie Woodard
Damage to Jackie Salyers's car included bullet holes in the passenger's side of the windshield, shot out passenger and driver's side windows and a bullet hole in the driver's door.
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‘We Want the Truth,’ Says Grandmother of Native Woman Killed by Cop

By Stephanie Woodard
This bystander photo reportedly shows Jacqueline Salyers lying next to a police car, awaiting medical help. According to the witness, police shot Salyers, removed her from her vehicle, put her in a police car, drove down the street and took her out once more. When medical help arrived, she was dead.
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Cop Shoots, Kills Native Woman; Family Disputes Police Version

By Stephanie Woodard
From left, Native American Rights Fund attorneys John Echohawk (Pawnee) and Matthew Campbell (Native Village of Gambell) look over a voting-rights complaint just filed in U.S. District Court in North Dakota.
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Native Voters Turned Away at Polls Sue North Dakota

By Stephanie Woodard
Joseph Holley, tribal council member of the Battle Mountain Band of the Te-Moak Western Shoshone, views collapsed plastic fencing surrounding a mining vent in the Tosawihi Quarries, a Shoshone sacred site in Nevada. The white stone visible is the type used by Holley's ancestors for more than 10,000 years. “The fencing has turned into trash,” said Band attorney Rollie Wilson, who called this evidence of the mining company’s disrespect for the hallowed surroundings.
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Lost Bones, Damage and Harassment at Ancient Sacred Site

By Stephanie Woodard
Home: Cheyenne River Lakota Nation, a photo reverie on the community's life, land and people, came out on December 1.
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Photography Book Celebrates Cheyenne River Lakota Nation

By Stephanie Woodard
School Library Journal has just named Moonshot: The Indigenous Comics Collection to its prestigious list, Best Books of 2015.
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The Envelope Please! Indigenous Comics Collection Moonshot Among Best Books of 2015

By Stephanie Woodard
Tuned in: During a KILI radio program on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Beverly Pipe On Head and Cornell Conroy used Lakota and English to call on fellow tribal members to participate in the 2014 election.
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End-Run on Native Rights—Will It Work?

By Stephanie Woodard
Tuned in: During a KILI radio program on Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, Beverly Pipe On Head and Cornell Conroy used Lakota and English to call on fellow tribal members to participate in the 2014 election.
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End-Run on Native Rights—Will It Work?

By Stephanie Woodard
Alaska elections, language assistance, Togiak, During Election 2014, turnout surged in Alaska Native villages, including Togiak, shown here, in the Bristol Bay region. This was a result of various improvements in voting access, including increased language assistance for speakers of Alaska Native languages. A judge has ordered that the assistance be made permanent. (Photo by Stephanie Woodard, courtesy Tanana Chiefs Conference)
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Historic Voting-Rights Win in Alaska

By Stephanie Woodard
During Election 2014, turnout surged in Alaska Native villages, including Togiak, shown here, in the Bristol Bay region. This was a result of various improvements in voting access, including increased language assistance for speakers of Alaska Native languages. Now, a judge has ordered that the assistance be made permanent.
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Historic Voting-Rights Win in Alaska

By Stephanie Woodard
Organ Pipe National Monument, in southern Arizona, where a young as-yet-unidentified Native man was found dead in early 2014.
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Mystery Death in Desert: Do You Recognize These Tattoos?

By Stephanie Woodard
In a bid to increase economic development on Pine Ridge, Oglala Sioux Tribe President John Yellowbird Steele (right) and South Dakota Secretary of State Shantel Krebs sign a Memorandum of Understanding that renews the tribe's access to the state's central filing system for secured loans.
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Better Way to Get Money: Enhancing Economic Development and Equal Rights in South Dakota

By Stephanie Woodard
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, in Portland, Oregon, was the site for the appeal for a Native voting rights case; above, the hearing was about to begin. Fully litigated voting rights cases can cost millions, experts say.
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Why Doesn’t Jackson County Want Natives to Vote?

By Stephanie Woodard
A panel from 'Water Master,' one of the tales in 'Moonshot.' Courtesy AH Comics.
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Native Characters and Creators Thrive in 176-Page 'Moonshot' Comics Anthology

By Stephanie Woodard
Attorney Jeff Anderson and Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate tribal member and advocate Lonna Hunter announce the first Native child-sexual-abuse lawsuit to be brought under Minnesota's Child Victims Act.
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Abusive Priests Outed—Time Running Out to Bring More Claims

By Stephanie Woodard
The body of Pulaski County, Missouri’s “Jane Doe,” who was about 30 years old at the time and possibly Native, was found in May 1981 on this lonely stretch of country road off Highway MM.
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Someone Got Away With Murder: Do You Know This Woman?

By Stephanie Woodard
“This was a common, accepted activity in a federal courthouse for years.”
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Smutty, Racist E-Mails of Montana Judge Might Be Buried

By Stephanie Woodard
Oglala Lakota attorney Brett Lee Shelton at the Native American Rights Fund office in Boulder, Colorado.
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When Justice Doesn’t Work: A NARF Attorney on Restoring the Circle

By Stephanie Woodard
In Jackson County, South Dakota, the main elections office is in the mostly white-inhabited county seat Kadoka (blue circle). The county commission and other officials there are fighting a lawsuit in which residents of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation (below orange line) have sued for full-service satellite voting in the Native town Wanblee (orange circle). Whites make up 43.1 percent of the county’s population, say 2013 Census estimates; they hold four of five commission seats and run elections.
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South Dakota’s Last Stand—Ballot Boxes, Red Herrings and Custer Envy

By Stephanie Woodard
The Jackson County Courthouse, in Kadoka, South Dakota, proudly proclaims its alliance to the "pioneers" of the area.
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Poor Bear Wins A Round: Oglala Voting Suit Advances

By Stephanie Woodard
Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in southwestern South Dakota.
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To Sell or Not to Sell? Oglala Tables Decision on Newspaper Boycott

By Stephanie Woodard
The Oglala Sioux Tribal Council has asked Pine Ridge Indian Reservation businesses not to sell the Rapid City Journal. Some residents have given up reading the paper; others can pick up copies in nearby towns, such as Whiteclay (shown here), just over the Nebraska state line and a short distance from Pine Ridge village.
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Oglala Sioux Tribal Council Takes Aim at Newspaper, Attorney

By Stephanie Woodard
From left: Blackfeet tribal member Lita Pepion, of Indian People's Action, which sued to ensure the emails are safeguarded for potential future use; Montana's former chief federal judge Richard Cebull, who sent hundreds of derogatory emails; U.S. District Court Judge for the Northern District of California Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who ruled that the Ninth Circuit, which includes Montana, must preserve them.
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Justice Speaks! Judge’s Racist Emails Must Be Preserved

By Stephanie Woodard
Interior of the Cathedral of Saint Helena, the mother church of the Diocese of Helena (Montana), which has agreed to settle a childhood-sexual-abuse lawsuit brought by 362 plaintiffs, primarily Native Americans, against the diocese and the Ursulines, an order of nuns.
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Nun Abuse Case Goes to Bankruptcy Court; Survivor Speaks Out

By Stephanie Woodard
At their home in Manokotak, Alaska, Mike and Anecia Toyukak page through a notebook of elementary-school mathematics lessons based on traditional Yup’ik concepts. They are part of a team that has created the curriculum.
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Measuring the World the Yup’ik Way: New Math Curriculum Adds Up to Success

By Stephanie Woodard