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Minnesota high school hockey players Katierie and Kaiya Sandy are Ojibwe from the Northwest Angle #33 in Canada. They competed at the varsity hockey level for the past few years and are now two-time defending state champions.
The sisters helped Warroad High School, located in northern Minnesota not far from the Canadian border, to the 2022 and 2023 Class A Minnesota state hockey championships.
Warroad’s latest title came on Feb. 25 with a 3-1 victory over Orono High School at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul. The Warriors finished its season with a 26-3-1 record. The program also had back-to-back state championships in 2010 and 2011.
“A highlight of the state tournament was scoring a breakaway goal in the championship game to increase our lead to 3-1,” Kaiya Sandy said.
“I am fortunate to play for Warroad High School,” Sandy said. “Our community fully embraces our Native American heritage. Being Native American gives me an extra sense of pride to carry this gift and request forward, many generations later.” READ MORE— Miles Morrisseau, ICT
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Republicans in Congress do not see the world the same way the Biden administration does. And to make that point clear the House passed H.R. 1 last week, the top legislative priority for the new majority.
Rep. Tom Cole, Chickasaw, made the case when the rules committee he chairs passed the legislation on to the full House.
“On his first day in office,” Cole said, “President Biden rescinded the permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline, and followed that up by suspending new oil and gas leasing and drilling on Federal land and in Federal waters … while also spending billions of dollars on Green New Deal-style boondoggles.”
Republicans favor a fossil fuel industry and give lukewarm support to emerging clean energy sources. While Democrats say that the world is in a planet emergency and therefore should make the switch to green energy (all the while still supporting a continuation of a fossil fuel economy.) READ MORE — Mark Trahant, ICT
Longtime environmental activist Winona LaDuke resigned as executive director of the nonprofit environmental justice group she founded, Honor the Earth, four days after a jury ordered the organization to pay $750,000 in a sexual harassment lawsuit.
The organization announced LaDuke’s resignation on its website April 5, and its new executive director, Krystal Two Bulls, Oglala Lakota/Northern Cheyenne, who joined Honor the Earth in January as co-director.
In her resignation letter, LaDuke, White Earth Ojibwe, apologized for not responding to former employee Margaret “Molly” Campbell’s sexual harassment claims “with the appropriate level of care and urgency” when Campbell reported them.
“In 2014-2015, I failed Molly Campbell,” LaDuke said in the letter. “I am sorry for the hurt caused to Ms. Campbell, and I am sorry for the broader harm that resulted, too.” READ MORE — Richard Arlin Walker, Special to ICT
The chief of Lake St. Martin First Nation is accusing the Winnipeg police of failing to properly investigate the death of a 33-year-old Indigenous woman whose body is the latest found in the notorious Brady landfill in Manitoba.
Chief Chris Traverse challenged the police announcement Thursday, April 6, that Linda Mary Beardy of Lake St. Martin First Nation was not murdered, and accused police of trying to tarnish the young mother’s reputation.
His statements came just an hour or so after the Winnipeg Police Service held a press conference to say that Beardy had been seen entering a dumpster in Winnipeg but was not seen leaving, and that her injuries were consistent with being dumped into a garbage truck and carted to the landfill.
“The [WPS] said that Linda crawled into the bin, insinuating she then passed out,” Traverse said. “This is discrimination against Anishinabek to make that assumption. Why haven’t the police made a release that there was a report of a man trying to dump a body into a dumpster earlier Friday morning of [March] 31? Why aren’t they sharing and acting on those tips? I think they are trying to avoid a proper investigation.’” READ MORE — Miles Morrisseau, ICT
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The National Humanities Medal is given to individuals and organizations whose work has deepened the nation’s engagement with history, literature and languages. Native America Calling was among the recipients honored in March at the White House. The live week-day, call-in show broadcasts on the radio and online — and has been dubbed “the nation’s largest electronic talking circle.” Shawn Spruce is its host.
Lawyer Nicole Ducheneaux from Big Fire Law is still fighting the Dakota Access Pipeline in court. She is a veteran on the legal frontlines fighting for Native rights. ICT’S Shirley Sneve caught up with her at RES in Las Vegas where she led a panel on Native voting rights.
It’s the third birthday of the ICT Newscast. Started at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, Epidemiologist Dean Seneca was the show’s first guest. Three years later, ICT’s Shirley Sneve spoke with him about what has happened since then.
LAS VEGAS — S.R. Tommie is the founder and president of the Redline Media Group, the largest Native American woman-owned advertising agency in the world.
She said when she says it out loud it feels like her mom is hugging her.
“I feel her hugging me so I say it driving down the road by myself just so I can feel her hug because she believed in me like she believed the sun would rise and the moon would come up on us and the stars would sparkle,” the Seminole Tribe of Florida citizen said.
Her mom Minnie Tommie couldn’t read or write until she was in her late 30s when she could write her name. Tommie said she wasn’t business savvy but always told her to appreciate who she was. That’s the advice she gives to other Native entrepreneurs as well as being organized and professional by not relying on other people to deliver what you committed to deliver. To do that is by knowing your product well and assembling a strong, knowledgeable team that can help you achieve that. READ MORE — Kalle Benallie, ICT
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