Stewart Huntington

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Jody Naranjo Folwell-Turipa, Santa Clara Pueblo/Tewa, sits with one of her pottery creations. The artist was tapped in 2014 as one of First Peoples Fund’s Community Spirit Honorees. Folwell-Turipa began sculpting traditional blackware and redware pottery as a child using skills passed from generation to generation in her family. First Peoples Fund is a national non-profit organization that honors and supports Native artists and culture bearers. (Photo courtesy of First Peoples Fund)
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Major investment in Indigenous 'agents of change'

Signs of spring thaw appear in late April 2021 along the Copper River in Tazlina, Alaska. The Catholic Church wants to sell 462 acres that once housed the Copper Valley mission school to the Native Village of Tazlina tribe for $1.86 million but the property has a tangled history. (Photo by John Tierney for Indian Country Today)
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Alaska village eyes return of ancestral lands

University of Alaska Fairbanks (Photo courtesy of Enrico Blasutto, Creative Commons) CC BY-SA 4.0 [creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0])
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'We are past the point of crisis'

Lacrosse sticks are held high in this undated photo as part of the Indigenous games that longtime coach Dan Ninham, Oneida, has introduced into physical education programs for Native students. He and his wife, educator Susan Ninham, have now developed an online course for teachers to help them use Native culture and language to help reach students. (Photo courtesy of Northern Indigenous Games)
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Teaching teachers to reach Indigenous youth

Lower Sioux Indian Community President Robert Lee Larsen said Minnesota’s return on Feb. 12, 2021, of 120 acres of ancestral land to the tribe was a good start. “This isn't a thing to own the land but to regain the relationship with that land and heal," he said. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)
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Historic Dakota land returns to tribe

Mike Forcia raises his hands in the air as people photograph the fallen Christopher Columbus statue at the Minnesota state Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., Wednesday, June 10, 2020. (Evan Frost/Minnesota Public Radio via AP)
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What’s old is new: The return of Peacemaking

Heather Dawn Thompson
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Lakota lawyer to lead Agriculture tribal relations

A walkway winds around carved boulders in a new park in Richmond, California, dedicated to the area's Indigenous residents and the shellmounds they left behind. “We now have an opportunity to preserve and remember a piece of that history that once so dominated the Richmond landscape,” said Richmond’s Mayor Tom Butt. (Photo by Masayuki Nagase)
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Shellmound park sprang from 'miracles'

In this Nov. 27, 2020, photo, "Land Back" graffiti adorns a statue of George Washington in a Minneapolis Park after it was toppled to the ground on Thanksgiving. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)
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Are the Twin Cities listening to statue protests?

Nick Tilsen gestures while talking about the NDN Collective in this 2018 photograph. Tilsen’s non profit last week was picked by the Bezos Earth Fund -- run by Amazon founder Jeff bezos -- to receive $12 million in funding. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)
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Doubling down on Native values

Students line up to enter a building on the campus of the Rapid City Indian Boarding School in this undated photo. The school operated from 1898 until 1933. Disputes over the school’s land after it closed have “proven to be an ongoing, nagging issue that … is not going away,” said Rapid City Mayor Steve Allender. (Photo courtesy of the South Dakota State Historical Society)
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‘A small step but a giant leap’

Teepees cluster around a common campfire at Camp Mniluzahan, a homeless encampment set up just outside of Rapid City, S.D. The camp is perched on some 90 acres of land held in trust for the Cheyenne River, Rosebud and Oglala Sioux Tribes that used to be part of the shuttered Rapid City Indian Boarding school. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)
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‘It’s a sovereign place’

Rapid CIty Mayor STeve Allender addresses the town's city council on Monday. The mayor spoke forcefully in favor of a land swap resolution that could possibly result in Native Americans deriving some benefit from 1,200 acres of land that used to be used for the Rapid City Indian Boarding School. Native elders have been demanding use of some of that land for 70 years. CREDIT: Stewart Huntington
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South Dakota city puts off vote in land dispute

Lawyer Heather Dawn Thompson answers questions at a Rapid City City Council committee meeting Wednesday. Thompson is leading talks with the city to resolve three small pieces of a much larger land dispute that Lakota leaders have been working on for 70 years.
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Rapid City lawmakers to mull land dispute

In this Monday, Oct. 12, 2020, photo, children with placards bearing the names of students who died at the old Rapid City Indian Boarding School sit in front of a hillside that researchers determined holds unmarked graves of some of the deceased children. A memorial is planned to honor the children at the site. (Photo by Stewart Huntington)
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'They are not forgotten'

Students line up outside the Rapid City Indian Boarding School in this undated photo. The school operated from 1898 until 1933. After the school shut down the federal government distributed some 1,200 acres of school land to the city, the local school district, the national guard and churches — but none to Native Americans. (Photo courtesy of the South Dakota State Historical Society)
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Historic settlement inches closer in South Dakota land dispute

MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. (July 15, 2020) -- Lisa Bellanger (left) and Frank Paro sit in front of the Pow Wow Grounds coffee shop on Franklin Avenue in Minneapolis. They were named co-chairs of the American Indian Movement's Grand Governing Council in May. “One of the things that has kept me in the movement is its spiritual roots,” said Bellanger. “It’s behind most of AIM’s work over the years. Protecting Mother Earth.”
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'Into the fire’: New AIM leaders face pivotal time