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Chef George Lenser presided over the food kiosk at the Montreal First Peoples Festival 2017.
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A Chat With First Nations Chef George Lenser

By Theresa Braine
'Mohawk Girls' creator Tracey Deer in a 2016 interview (Courtesy image)
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A Chat With ‘Mohawk Girls’ Creator Tracey Deer

By Theresa Braine
The path that the total solar eclipse of 2017 will take across Turtle Island.
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Solar Eclipse Covers Turtle Island

By Theresa Braine
These Mexican ceramic ornaments are typical of the prevalence of eclipses in indigenous art.
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Avert Your Eyes: Eclipse Viewing Taboo in Navajo and Other Cultures

By Theresa Braine
The Montreal First Peoples Festival at the Place des Festivals on August 5, 2017.
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Montreal First Peoples Festival in High Gear

By Theresa Braine
Kelsey Leonard, Shinnecock, speaks at the Peter Benchley Ocean Awards.
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Shinnecock Bring Indigenous Science to Federal Ocean Policy

By Theresa Braine
The Mohawk and Abenaki section of the new 'Life in the Adirondacks' exhibit at The Adirondack Experience, The Museum on Blue Mountain Lake, in New York State.
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Adirondack Museum Dispels Myths With Native Exhibit

By Theresa Braine
On behalf of his tribe, Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II accepted the inaugural Henry A. Wallace Award for courage at a ceremony in New York City.
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Standing Rock Sioux to Spearhead $1 Million in Renewable Energy Projects

By Theresa Braine
Lake Oahe easement-DAPL
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Lake Oahe Easement for DAPL Draws Backlash

By Theresa Braine
There was a Bowling Green Massacre, but in 1643 in New Amsterdam (later New York City) and committed by immigrants of the day: treacherous European settlers and soldiers. (Map of New Amsterdam, 1660).
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The Real Bowling Green Massacre

By Theresa Braine
Jenni Monet-DAPL-Aboriginal Peoples Television Network-Canada
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Last Child DAPL Camp Raided; ICMN Journalist Jenni Monet Arrested

By Theresa Braine
No DAPL, DAPL, DAPL protests, White House, Trump, Executive Order
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Anti DAPL Forces Rally in Reaction to Trump Executive Memos

By Theresa Braine
Trump signs executive order for DAPL and keystone xl
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Breaking: Trump Pushes DAPL, Keystone XL Forward With Executive Order

By Theresa Braine
DAPL Dakota Access Pipeline construction, September 2016 Easement
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Breaking: White House Implies DAPL, Keystone XL, Are On

By Theresa Braine
Oil spill into Ash Coulee Creek in North Dakota, December 2016
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North Dakota Oil Spill Leaks More Than 176,000 Gallons of Crude

By Theresa Braine
Winter has descended at the Oceti Sakowin Camp of water protectors at Standing Rock, as evacuation orders are issued and clarified, and water protectors sue for alleged excessive force.
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DAPL: Evacuation Orders and Snowflakes Fly as Injured Water Protectors Sue Morton County

By Theresa Braine
Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Harold Frazier has written to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers demanding the resignation of John W. Henderson, Commander and District Engineer of the Omaha District, after what Frazier said was an insult-laced and troubling telephone conversation.
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Cheyenne River Sioux Chair Calls for Resignation of US Army Corps’ Henderson

By Theresa Braine
Facebook check-ins to the "Standing Rock Indian Reservation" are well-intentioned and are giving water protectors a morale boost, but they are by no means confounding authorities.
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DAPL: Facebook Check-ins Show Support But Do Not Confound Authorities

By Theresa Braine
A woman water protector carrying a blue prayer stick is arrested by heavily armed police.
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Conflicting Accounts Emerge After Treaty Camp Police Action

By Theresa Braine
Left to right, Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II, Cheyenne River Sioux Chairman Harold Frazier, Lakota elder Faith Spotted Eagle, Apache Stronghold founder Wendsler Nosie Sr., and youth representative Gracey Claymore speak to Democratic U.S. Representatives at a forum on Thursday September 22.
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House Democrats Call for New DAPL Permitting Process After 2-Hour Forum in DC

By Theresa Braine
Aerial view of the area bulldozed by Dakota Access LLC on September 3.
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Archaeological Experts Appalled at DAPL Sacred Site Destruction: 1,281 Sign Petition

By Theresa Braine
About 500 people rallied outside the White House on Tuesday September 13 to call for an end to the Dakota Access pipeline. They were joined by Senator and former Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders and former White House environmental advisor Van Jones.
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Bernie Sanders Joins Anti-DAPL Protest in DC as More Than Two Dozen Arrested Near Mandan, ND

By Theresa Braine
North Dakota Gov. Jack Dalrymple announces that he has called out the National Guard to assist during the demonstrations against the Dakota Access oil pipeline.
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Standing Rock Sioux Chairman David Archambault II Calls for Peace as Dalrymple Activates National Guard

By Theresa Braine
The Camp of the Sacred Stones has swelled from a few dozen to more than 2,500, according to Standing Rock Sioux Tribe officials. They are calling for further review of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, approved by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers at the end of July without a full environmental assessment.
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Dakota Access Pipeline: Standing Rock Sioux Chairman Archambault Calls on Obama for Aid

By Theresa Braine
Cesar Gachupin de Dios, originally from San Felipe Usila in Mexico's Oaxaca state, demonstrated his Chinanteco culture's ancient recipe.
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From Mexico to Montreal: Cesar Gachupin de Dios Makes Stone Soup at the First Peoples' Festival

By Theresa Braine
Musicians drew large crowds all weekend to the Place des Festivals for the Montreal First Peoples' Festival, August 3 through 10.
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Celebrating Reconciliation: Dancers, Artists, Musicians Flock to Montreal First Peoples' Festival

By Theresa Braine
This guide will tell potential donors everything they need to know about partnering with Indigenous Peoples for philanthropic purposes.
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New Philanthropy Guide Brings Indigenous Funding to the Fore

By Theresa Braine
Petroglyphs found at the Volcanic Tableland, near Bishop, California. Looting of Native artifacts is rampant throughout the West.
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California MD Indicted on 21 Felony Counts Was Hoarding 30,000 Indian Artifacts

By Theresa Braine
Sheldon Wolfchild (Dakota), left, and Steven Newcomb (Shawnee, Lenape), field questions after a screening of their documentary The Doctrine of Discovery: Unmasking the Domination Code at the Fordham University School of Law in New York City on September 17, 2015.
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‘Unmasking the Domination Code’ Documentary Elicits Gasps, Applause

By Theresa Braine
Scene from Café, a portrait of an indigenous family in Mexico after the father's death, won the Teueikan Grand Prize at the Montreal First Peoples Festival 2015.
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Mexico Films Top Montreal First Peoples Festival Awards [Video]

By Theresa Braine
The spill at Nexen Energy's facility near Long Lake, Alberta, Canada, shown just after it happened in mid-July.
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Oil Sands Fail: Nexen Admits Spill Could Have Gone Undetected for Two Weeks

By Theresa Braine
Yamoussa Bangoura, left, and Guillaume Saladin, whose friendship and respective acrobatic troupes star in Circus Without Borders. The inspiring documentary, which chronicles the shared passion of two performers who each made a difference in their communities, brought a standing ovation on opening night of the Montreal First Peoples Festival.
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Montreal First Peoples Festival Opens to Standing Ovation

By Theresa Braine
The audience applauded loudly as Pope Francis, seen here with Bolivian President Evo Morales, apologized for the Catholic Church's role in committing the "grave sins" of colonialism.
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Pope Francis Apology Prompts Calls for Direct Address to School Survivors in Canada

By Theresa Braine
This buffalo-hide robe is covered in the exploits of at least two Lakota warriors and includes 60 figures depicted across 14 events. The exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 'The Plains Indians: Artists of Earth and Sky,' runs through May 10. On loan from Musée du quai Branly, Paris.
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Full Circle: Plains Indians Exhibit Takes Top Billing at Metropolitan Museum of Art

By Theresa Braine
Kayla Mueller, 26, had been held by the Islamic State since 2013 after being captured in Syria. Her activism had its beginnings in the fight to preserve the San Francisco Peaks from being sprayed by artificial snow made from treated wastewater.
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Before Syria, ISIS Hostage Kayla Mueller Fought to Save the San Francisco Peaks

By Theresa Braine
The back of an unassuming, though magenta, hoodie that sparked a controversy far beyond the middle school where it was banned. These and other stories dominated the headlines of indigenous-related stories in Canada during 2014.
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'Got Land' Hoodies, Sealfies and Missing Women: 10 Stories of Indigenous Note in Canada for 2014

By Theresa Braine
Raymond, Colina and Lee Yazzie with fashion and textile designer Patricia Michaels (center) and Glittering World exhibit curator Lois Dubin (right) at the 20th anniversary gala of the National Museum of the American Indian (NMAI) in New York City.
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Native Lights Shine at NMAI 20th-Anniversary Gala in the 'Glittering World' of New York City

By Theresa Braine
This is what 35,000 walruses look like when they do not have sea ice to rest on in the open water.
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Native Alaska Village of Point Lay Hailed for Stewardship of 35,000 Walruses

By Theresa Braine
Onondaga Chief Oren Lyons poses with 2014 Wisdom Fellowship Award winner Tarcila Rivera Zea, Quechua activist in Ayacucho, Peru, at the World Summit on Indigenous Philanthropy. Lyons received the same award in 2012.
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Indigenous Philanthropy Forms a Brooklyn Footnote to WCIP and Climate Week

By Theresa Braine
Indigenous activists and leaders poised to begin the People's Climate March on September 21, 2014.
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Biggest Climate March in History a Watershed Moment for Indigenous Peoples

By Theresa Braine
The 'anti-Beiber' Xiuhtezcatl Martinez, 14-year-old indigenous rapper from Boulder, spoke at the People's Climate March kickoff event in New York City on September 19.
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Indigenous Peoples Essential to Climate Movement, March Organizers Say

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The late Reepah Arreak played an Inuit residential school survivor to perfection in 'The Healing Winds,' which took Grand Prize at the Montreal First Peoples Festival 2014.
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Residential School Survival Drama ‘Healing Winds’ Takes Grand Prize at Montreal First Peoples Festival

By Theresa Braine
Hundreds of people packed the Place des Festivals to see Algonquin rap sensation Samian at the Montreal First Peoples Festival on July 31.
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'Joyful Anger,' Youthful Exuberance, Overflow at Montreal First Peoples Festival

By Theresa Braine
John Herrington, enrolled member of the Chickasaw Nation, on his shuttle mission, which lifted off on November 23, 2002.
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Native History: Astronaut John B. Herrington, Chickasaw, Becomes First American Indian in Space

By Theresa Braine
Attendees of the Montreal First Peoples Festival catch dancing and music at the Place des Festivals.
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Are You a Chief? And 11 Other Zany Questions Posed at the Montreal First Peoples Festival Info Kiosk

By Theresa Braine
Left to right, 'Winter in the Blood' co-filmmaker Alex Smith, festival organizer André Dudemaine, co-filmmaker Andrew Smith and actor Chaske Spencer at a screening of the movie at the Montreal First Peoples Festival.
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‘Winter in the Blood’ Wins Grand Prize at Montreal First Peoples Festival

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DIY elk hot dogs and ears of corn drew dozens of people to open fires on the Place des Festivals in Montreal for the First Peoples Festival, which runs through August 5.
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Cook Your Own Street Food: Roasting Elk Sausage at the Montreal First Peoples Festival

By Theresa Braine
Sherwin Bitsui, Navajo poet, juxtaposes ancient with modern in his work.
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A Conversation With Navajo Poet Sherwin Bitsui

By Theresa Braine
Orlando White, one of several Native poets at Native Innovation: Indigenous American Poetry in the 21st Century in New York City.
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Poetic Confluence: Writers of Native Verse Explore Shared Roots

By Theresa Braine
The Montreal First Peoples' Festival was anchored in the central Place des Festivals, as usual, by the iconic, multicolored turtle effigy representing Turtle Island.
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Fun and Frolic: Montreal First Peoples' Festival Brings Indigenous and Non-Natives Together

By Theresa Braine