The ICT Newscast for Friday, April 18, 2025, features New Mexico’s new Turquoise Alert for missing Indigenous people and Redding Rancheria’s wellness campus in California. Plus, stories on boarding school legacies and a one-on-one interview with Lily Gladstone. Check out the ICT Newscast on YouTube for this episode and more.
- New Mexico joins three other states in implementing a Turquoise Alert system to locate missing Native people, responding to the urgent crisis of disappearances across Indian Country.
- In Northern California, the Redding Rancheria breaks ground on a 200,000 square-foot wellness campus blending traditional healing and Western medicine to address chronic illness in Native communities.
- Three years ago, Mary Annette Pember, ICT national correspondent, started exploring her mother’s history in a Catholic boarding school. That journey led to her new book, “Medicine River: A Story of Survival and The Legacy of Indian Boarding Schools.” ICT has the exclusive interview ahead of the book’s release.
- Lily Gladstone brings the laugh, in the romantic comedy “The Wedding Banquet.” Gladstone plays Lee, a woman starting a family with her partner in Seattle. Known for dramatic roles, Gladstone shares how returning to comedy feels natural and how she helped shape her character to reflect the local Duwamish community.
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