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WASHINGTON, DC-Each year, the President of the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) presents the State of Indian Nations address to members of Congress, government officials, tribal leaders and citizens, and the American public. This year, President Brian Cladoosby delivered his address at the Newsmuseum across from the U.S. Capitol building. "I want to thank the Creator for this beautiful day," Cladoosby began. "...for allowing me the privilege of representing Indian...
OTTAWA, ON—A national roundtable discussion on missing and murdered Aboriginal women was held in Canada’s capital city on February 27. It was attended by three representatives of those who have relatives who were killed or are missing. Also in attendance were the premiers of Ontario, Manitoba, and the Northwest Territories along with Canada’s Status of Women Minister Minister Kellie Keitch and Aboriginal Affairs Minister Bernard Valcourt. Prime Minister Stephen Harper was invited but was not there. Hosted by the Assem...
WINNIPEG, MB-Métis MP Rod Bruinooge, 41, is leaving federal politics. He announced on January 7, 2015 that he won't seek re-election at the end of his current term. "It's hard not to be around for things," the Conservative Member of Parliament told the Winnipeg Free Press. "When I was first elected I didn't even have kids." He has an eight-year-old daughter and a six-year-old son. After the death of his father-in-law over the holidays, Bruinooge decided he wanted to spend...
Much is said about the potential damage that 50 Shades of Grey could cause women but I’m not hearing much about the damage it will cause to men. I spoke recently with a young man who walked in on a 50 Shades of Grey event at a local establishment. He was clearly confused by it. “That’s the kind of stuff that comes into a guy’s head sometimes but then the guy usually knows to get rid of it because it’s wrong. Now, here I was, surrounded by women wearing handcuffs “just for fun” and asking me to blindfold them. I guess I shoul...
When the novel Fifty Shades of Grey was published three years ago, critics described it as “dull and poorly written,” “depressing” and “a sad joke.” Yet, it sold 100 million copies. Women were fascinated by the dark tale of a 21-year-old college student, Ana Steele, who falls in love with a handsome but mysterious young billionaire named Christian Grey after she interviews him for a newspaper. The book was accurately dubbed “mommy porn” because it is sexually graphic and full of crude language, and also because Christi...
ALBUQUERQUE, NM (ANS)-Alcoholism is "a wicked sin, just like drug addiction. You can get victory over it with the help of Jesus." We live in an alcohol-saturated culture, where the link is often made between drinking alcohol and having a good time. Unless you're a conservative American Christian or over-consume alcohol, unlike smoking, it's socially acceptable to drink. There's usually a drink available at many after hours business networking functions as well as numerous...
EAGLE BUTTE, SD-The tiny building is aptly named, the Mustard Seed, because great things have been happening there. The Mustard Seed, situated half a block off Main Street in downtown Eagle Butte, on the Cheyenne River Indian reservation, is where kindhearted individuals have been volunteering their time to feed the homeless two or three times a week. But last month when another homeless man in Eagle Butte lost his life to the cold, Pastor Pauline Webb of the United Church of...
"Do you get angry at your cat for scratching you at times?” My question surprised him. He didn’t know I, or anyone else, knew about his kitten. “How do you know?” he questioned me, but with a smile. “Who told me is not important here. Just answer my question.” I wasn’t going to let him get off the subject. He had been complaining to me about his neighbor, not just today but for weeks now. And for weeks I had no wisdom or advice for him, until I found out about his cat. His...
Dear Nidobak, It is now early spring “wskizigwaniwi” a season we are all quite grateful for, I’m sure. There is nothing like hope and sunshine to put a smile on anyone’s face. Being inside most of the time in winter, it isn’t hard to understand why most people have a lack of Vitamin D. To get the proper amount of this nutrient you would have to spend 10 to 20 minutes in the sun at least three times a week with your bare skin mostly exposed. I set out to find which foods con...
The New Year has been upon us for a couple of months so how are your resolutions going? Many people like to start out the year fresh and leave behind the past as they seek to be a new person in a variety of ways. The term “New Year, New You” has been used over and over, yet sometimes by three or four months after the first of January, our resolutions have lost speed and have tuckered out. I began looking into God’s Word to find out what’s new. You may think, “That’s...
Based on the 1974 novel by James Welch, "Winter in the Blood" is a dreamy, often brutally dark film about an alcoholic on the Blackfeet reservation in Montana. Chaske Spencer plays Virgil First Raise, who lives his life in an alternating state of drunken stupor and hung-over bleariness. There's not much that you could call a plot here. First Raise wakes up in a ditch as the film opens, discovers his wife has left him, heading into town with his rifle and his electric razor,...
Xulon Press, Paper 359 pages Review by Carla McKay This is the true story of Craig, Chippewa, and LaDonna Smith, Navajo, and LaDonna's brother Zane, Navajo, facing horrendous trauma and trials, the result of a horrific near-fatal accident at Mile Marker 313 along Interstate 25 in northern New Mexico. All three escaped death but suffered multiple life-threatening injuries requiring multiple surgeries. Craig and LaDonna share their personal pain in their own words and include...
As we sat on the bus that morning, no one knew that the words spoken at that moment in time would ring throughout the rest of my life. "I'm never going to be like him.." "Me neither..." "We can be better.." "We don't need them, we got each other.." This conversation was followed by an agreement and promise of a brighter future that faltered with a child's hope. No one knew that I would be alone, their voices stirring up a fire inside me that comes and goes as a memory like...
There’s a great verse in the Bible that reminds us that we are children of God (First John 1:9). We also see that as a result of being a child of God, this same God wants to lavish His love on us. “See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know Him.” If you come to truly understand what this means it will heal your broken heart. If this doesn...
Spring’s glorious production opens with a chorus of geese flying north, in perfect V formation, over melting ponds and running streams breaking free from their icy strongholds. Mallards quack to each other in sharp staccato tones as they establish mates and nesting sites. Gulls quibble in high pitched notes as they vie for morsels shared by sun-seeking humans. Red-breasted robins arrive, adding their melodic songs to that of the chickadees, sparrows, jays, starlings and r...
The wolf pack raced through the forest. Tala was the largest and most fierce of the wolves. He leaped at a doe that jumped over a ravine and narrowly escaped Tala’s sharp fangs. The doe scrambled towards the safety of the deer herd and Tala and the other wolves began to surround the deer. Suddenly, Dyani a huge buck with sixteen points on his antlers came forward and shook his mighty rack at Tala. “Leave my herd alone, go chase rabbits and other game. If you attack us, I will...
RENEW HOPE I wish to convey a sincere “Thank You” to all the staff there at Indian Life. Your publication has helped renew hope to a lost spirit. I received an old copy of your newspaper and it was the first time I ever saw it and I’m glad I read it. —D.G., Indiana SPIRITUALLY CLOSER Indian Life has brought me spiritually closer to God and has given me more of an understanding about Native North America. I did not know of the existing matters that have been taking place with the Indigenous People of the land. I have lived o...
For the last couple of years, there’s been a sense that a raging evil force is at work in the world and it’s on a rampage. With the rise of ISIS or ISIL, terrorists have become more daring in how far they are willing to go to defeat their foes and recruit members. The most recent dastardly act was the beheading of twenty-one Egyptian Christians on the beach of Tripoli where their blood flowed into the Mediterranean Sea as the waves lapped the shore. This was not only a political statement challenging Europe but also a bol...
Alberta Daisy Schenck was born in Nome, Alaska, to Albert Schenck, a Euro-American Army veteran of World War One, and Mary Pushruk-Schenck of Native Inupiat heritage. Although Alaska was purchased from Russia by the United States in 1867, it did not enter the Union as the 49th State until January 3, 1959. Like the whole of American society in that era, prejudice against people of color and racial discrimination were the practices of the day. In 1944, as a 15-year-old high...
I've known dysfunction since I was a little girl. My mother was a loving, devoted Christian, but my father was a man haunted by his own scars, and those scars often filled our house with chaos. When I was four, I gave my life to Jesus, and I'm grateful because if He hadn't become a part of my life at an early age then I wouldn't be here. My father didn't want me-he told me so. He made me feel unloved and worthless. Later in my teen years, things got worse: More chaos! My...
My name is Crystal Steinhauer and I was born in Merritt, British Columbia, and grew up on the Coldwater Reserve. My parents are Faran and Vivian Steinhauer. My dad is from the Saddle Lake Cree Nation of Alberta. Most of his family are Christians and his mother, my grandmother, was a praying mom who is a living testimony to her children and family in Saddle Lake. My mom is from Merritt, and her family is from the Thompson Nation. Both my parents are from large families. I love...
When Winnipeg’s Inuit Art Centre opens its doors, it will be a lot more than a gallery. “It will be a place for learning, exploration, education, training,” says Winnipeg Art Gallery CEO, Stephen Borys. “Most importantly we’d like to think of it as a forum and a place for the Inuit voice to be heard in the South.” The Winnipeg Art Gallery already has 14,000 Inuit prints, carvings, statues and other art pieces, making up half of its entire collection. It’s billed as the largest public collection of contemporary Inuit art in...
WINNIPEG, MB—In view of the recent report calling Winnipeg “Canada’s most racist city,” The Student Association at the University of Winnipeg has come up with an idea. UWSA President Rorie McLeod announced that they are proposing making taking a course in Indigenous Studies a requirement for all incoming students. New students to the university would be required to take three credit hours in Indigenous history and culture. This is as much as a semester-long course. This would be mandatory in order to graduate. If this pr...
WINNIPEG, MB—Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is trying to decide if they are going to ask the Vatican to get rid of the “Papal Bulls of Discovery” from the 15th-century which gave explorers in those times the right to conquer the New World and Indigenous Peoples in those lands. Justice Murray Sinclair says they are considering making this request because of the impact that Residential Schools had on Aboriginal people and the part that the 1455 and 1493 Catholic decrees had played in all of this. The Commiss...
WOUNDED KNEE, SD-On the 124th Anniversary of the Chief Bigfoot Band Memorial Ride the riders arrived at the gravesite of the 1890 Wounded Knee Massacre victims on the Pine Ridge Reservation. This ride of over 150 miles began on the Cheyenne River Reservation and honors the more than 300 men, women and children slaughtered at Wounded Knee. Beginning with the shooting death of Sitting Bull on the Standing Rock Reservation on December 15, 1890, a small band of Hunkpapa left to se...
