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  • Teepees lit to represent 12 tribes

    Updated Nov 22, 2021

    GREAT FALLS, Mont.-In Great Falls, Montana, the public school administrators have set up 12 teepees to represent the 12 tribes of Montana. The structures will remain in place, overlooking the city, thoughout the month of November. During different weeks, the tepees will be lit in different colored lights-multicolored, representing diversity; red lights to recognize the missing and murdered indigenous people crisis; and orange lights, representing Every Child Matters. Most of...

  • God and sweet tea

    Keegan Williams, Gaylord News|Updated Nov 22, 2021

    NORMAN, Okla.-Resilient. That's the word used to describe Kim Holmes by the people who know her best. Holmes, a property manager for the Mental Health Association of Oklahoma, has lost 20 blood relatives and many more friends during the COVID-19 pandemic, but continued to push through and show up for those who needed her most. "She's been through a lot," said her supervisor, Greg Shim. "The word that comes to mind is resilient. She's very dedicated to serving the people at...

  • How one warrior mobilized to deliver water to the Navajo Nation

    Gianluca DElia, Cronkite News|Updated Nov 22, 2021

    PHOENIX-Not long after COVID-19 was declared a pandemic in 2020, Zoel Zohnnie was laid off from his pipe welding job. But the Tuba City, Arizona native knew other members of the Navajo Nation were faring far worse. To mitigate the effects of the pandemic, Zohnnie, 43, launched Water Warriors United, a project to deliver water across the reservation, where an estimated 30 percent of 174,000 residents lack running water and often must travel long distances to haul it back to the...

  • Indigenous legal traditions receive federal boost

    Updated Oct 4, 2021

    Ottawa, Ont.-Indigenous law in Ontario is getting a federal boost. The federal government is earmarking funds for projects that are expected to help revitalize Indigenous legal traditions. Justice Minister David Lametti says $918,000 will go to the Association of Iroquois and Allied Indians and Lakehead University's law faculty over three years to support Indigenous law-making research and "lay the foundation" for an Indigenous legal institute in Thunder Bay, Ontario. "We're...

  • Run the land: Native women across the U.S. take to the roads and trails

    Joseph Perez, Cronkite News|Updated Oct 4, 2021

    TUCSON-"Getting lost is the best part of trail running," Marlinda Bedonie said with a chuckle as we shielded our eyes from the morning sun, searching for our cars. We spoke on a recent morning while trekking through Tucson Mountain Park on a mostly flat, single-track loop trail. Dipping in and out of washes and brushing against the creosote along the trail, the Tohono O'odham and Navajo mother and I chatted-out of breath-as we shared our running journeys and spoke about our...

  • "Marker events" leave scars whether visible or not, psychologist explains

    Jeff Brumley|Updated Oct 4, 2021

    Marker events-especially the scary ones like the assassination of John F. Kennedy, 9-11 and Hurricane Ida-always leave some form of an emotional scar, even in those who weren't physically present for the trauma, according to clinical psychologist, media personality and humanitarian Judy Kuriansky. The COVID-19 pandemic, the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, the Florida condo collapse and the terrifying fall of Afghanistan during the U.S. military withdrawal all can be...

  • Yurok Tribe in Northern California grows solutions in soil of crises

    Mackenzie Wilkes, News21|Updated Oct 4, 2021

    KLAMATH, Calif.-A drought, a virus and a landslide-these concurrent crises have worsened the food insecurity of Northern California's Yurok Tribe and spurred some members to explore their own solutions. Their reservation, nestled between the Pacific Ocean and the redwoods of the Klamath Mountains, was declared a rural food desert by the USDA in 2017. The situation worsened when the COVID-19 pandemic, coupled with severe drought and a crumbling highway, slammed the reservation...

  • What's up with ILM

    Updated Oct 4, 2021

    Change seems to be constant in life doesn't it? Change is good, but with it brings the need to say goodbye, and hello. It is time for our accountant, Sam Holukoff, to say goodbye to serving with Indian Life Ministries. Jo-Anne Anderson, our previous director, worked with Sam for years and says: I don't recall what year Sam Holukoff joined Indian Life as the new accountant, but I do remember how excited and thankful we were to have someone so qualified to step into this...

  • Navajo Code Talkers Day becomes state holiday

    Updated Oct 4, 2021

    PHOENIX-Governor Doug Ducey of Arizona recently signed SB 1802 into law, recognizing August 14th as National Navajo Code Talkers Day and a state holiday. During World War II, the Navajo Code Talkers answered the call to defend the United States of America using the impenetrable code based on the Navajo language that is widely acknowledged as a deciding factor in the war effort. On July 28, 1982, former U.S. President Ronald Reagan designated August 14th as National Navajo...

  • Chickasaw woman gets USDA post, one in a string of Indigenous nominees

    Nancy Marie Spears, Gaylord News|Updated Oct 4, 2021

    WASHINGTON-For the first time in history, an Indigenous woman is overseeing U.S. agriculture law. Janie Simms Hipp, a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, was confirmed July 30 by the Senate as general counsel for the Agriculture Department. She joins a list of successful Indigenous appointees. Pending nominations include Charles F. Sams III, a member of the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation, who was nominated in August to oversee the National Park Service,...

  • Native Americans rate high on getting vaccinations

    Gail Strange, Presbyterian News Service|Updated Oct 4, 2021

    LOUISVILLE-COVID-19 has ravaged the Navajo Nation, killing Native Americans at a faster rate than any other community in the country. According to a report published earlier this year, Native Americans have been disproportionately affected by the coronavirus pandemic-especially on reservations, where access to basic resources, including food and water, can be limited. But by July 2021, according to a PBS report, nearly 46 percent of American Indians and Native Alaskans have...

  • U.S. Indigenous boarding schools to be investigated

    Emma Ascott, Cronkite News|Updated Oct 4, 2021

    PHOENIX-When the Phoenix Indian School was established in 1891, the top federal administrator considered it a budgetary win to send Native American children to boarding schools to enforce assimilation into white society. "It's cheaper to educate Indians than to kill them," Indian Commissioner Thomas Morgan said at the opening of the school. The true cost of Indigenous boarding schools in the United States and Canada, and the abuses Native Americans endured in them, continues...

  • Experts recommend Indigenous-led prescribed burns to help reduce wildfire risks

    Updated Oct 1, 2021

    VICTORIA, B.C.-As another year of long-burning, uncontrolled wildfires decimates portions of the U.S. and Canada-even threatening the world's oldest trees, located in California-one expert says North American authorities need to take some guidance and advise from Native Americans. "We're not burning anywhere near as much as we should," fire ecologist and noted burn boss Bob Gray, from Chilliwack, B.C., told The Canadian Press. Gray consults for local, provincial, state and...

  • Canadians recognize first official National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

    Updated Oct 1, 2021

    OTTAWA—On September 30, 2021 Canadians recognized the first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation. The day honors the lost children and survivors of residential schools, their families and communities. Public commemoration of the tragic and painful history and ongoing impacts of residential schools is a vital component of the reconciliation process. Parliament passed bills to create this federal statutory holiday through legislative amendments. On June 3, 2021, Bill C...

  • Native American family honored for 100 years of ministry

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    Lumberton, N.C.-In June, the Native American Fellowship of the Assemblies of God recognized the Klaudt Indian Family for 100 years of ministry. The event happened at the Native American Fellowship Conference, which was held in Lumberton, North Carolina at PowerPoint Church. Melvin Klaudt one of the original members of the Klaudt Indian Family Singers received the certificate of appreciation. Back in the 1920s, Reverend Reinhold Klaudt married Lillian White Corn Little Soldier...

  • Tribes participate in NASA program for students

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    WASHINGTON, D.C.-Middle school students from three tribes in Oklahoma have been chosen to work with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) on a program called the "Native Earth/Native Sky"(NENS) program. The objective is to build culturally-relevant earth-sky STEM programming for middle schoolers in three Oklahoma Native American nations that will increase the students' understanding of and interest in earth and space science, technology, engineering and math...

  • Training to Change the World

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    One of our goals at Indian Life Ministries is to make you aware of ministries and organizations through which Indigenous Christians are reaching others. This issue, we're pleased to introduce you to Indian Bible College (www.indianbible.org), based in Flagstaff, Arizona, and the Director of Admissions, Daniel Esplin. Can you tell us a little bit about Indian Bible College? What is the history? What is the purpose? Indian Bible College exists to disciple and educate Indigenous...

  • Wisconsin Indigenous Riders Roll Through Northwoods for the 1st Annual MMIW/MMIP Awareness Ride

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    LAC DU FLAMBEAU, Wisc.-Bruce LaMere, a Ho-Chunk tribal member who lives in Tomahawk, has spent many years participating in motorcycle rides with a purpose, and also happens to be a skilled event organizer. In February 2021, the Wisconsin Indigenous Riders officially formed. After months of planning, a MMIW/MMIP Awareness ride throughout several Wisconsin tribal communities recently took place. The MMIW/MMIP Awareness Ride included Lakota, Stockbridge-Munsee, Menominee, Mole...

  • Yakama Nation wins victory in treaty lands case

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    WASHINGTON, D.C.-In late June, the federal appeals court confirmed that the Yakama Nation has been right all along about its treaty lands in Washington state. In a unanimous decision, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the 1.4-million acre Yakama Reservation includes a parcel known as Tract D, which was set aside by treaty more than 150 years ago. "The Ninth Circuit's decision is a resounding victory for the rights that our ancestors reserved in the Treaty of 1855,"...

  • Trudeau returns child welfare responsibilities to Cowessess First Nation

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    COWESSESS, Sask.-In early July, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau signed a landmark agreement to return child welfare responsibilities to Cowessess First Nation, which he says is critical in reducing the number of Indigenous children in the foster care system. "Never again should kids be taken from their homes, families and communities," Trudeau said at the ceremony to commemorate the agreement. "Kids need to be kept by, protected by, supported by, and taught by their...

  • First female AFN national chief

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    OTTAWA-RoseAnne Archibald has been chosen as the new national chief for the Assembly of First Nations. She is the first women and the first person from Ontario to hold the post. The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is an assembly of First Nations chiefs, modelled on the United Nations General Assembly. The AFN was established in 1982, emerging from the dissolved Canadian National Indian Brotherhood of the late 70s. The goals of the organization are to protect and advance the...

  • Pope to meet with Canadian residential school survivors

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    OTTAWA-When Pope Francis first learned of the graves found at the sites of Canadian residential schools, he expressed sympathy and sorrow, but offered no plans to go further. However, Canadian and Indigenous outcry rose for at least an apology for the Catholic Church's role in the abuse and death of thousands of Indigenous children. In recent weeks, investigators using ground-penetrating radar found hundreds of unmarked graves at the sites of two residential schools for...

  • National Bison Range lands transferred for tribes

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    WASHINGTON, D.C.-In an important move to restore Tribal homelands, the Department of the Interior announced in late June the transfer of all lands comprising the National Bison Range (NBR), approximately 18,800.22 acres, to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) to be held in trust for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes (CSKT) of the Flathead Reservation in Montana. The lands, which are within the boundaries of the reservation, were transferred to the Bureau from the...

  • Supreme Court rules in favor of tribal police

    Brooke Newman, Cronkite News|Updated Sep 2, 2021

    WASHINGTON-Tribal police have the authority to detain non-Natives traveling through reservation land if the officer has a reasonable belief that the suspect violated state or federal law, the Supreme Court ruled in June. The unanimous ruling overturned lower courts that said a Crow police officer should not have held a nontribal member who was found to have drugs and weapons in his truck. The Supreme Court said that the lower courts' rulings would "make it difficult for...

  • Inuk leader named as first Indigenous Governor General

    Updated Sep 2, 2021

    OTTAWA-Inuk leader and former ambassador Mary Simon has been chosen as the next governor general. She is the first Indigenous person ever to be appointed to the role. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said that the Queen has accepted his recommendation to appoint Simon-a past president of Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, the national Inuit organization-as the 30th governor general. Simon is an Inuk from Kuujjuaq, a village in northeastern Quebec. Her mother was Inuk and her father was a w...

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