• We start in Washington where ICT has launched a 5 year project looking at the impact of climate change in tribal communities. ICT’s Mark Trahant gives us a report on the Quinault Nation and the ways climate change is affecting them. 
  • Last week, President Joe Biden signed a proclamation to expand two national monuments in California. And this week, over 100 tribal leaders are in Washington D.C. to testify before the House Appropriations Committee. We also get an update on the status of the Farm Bill. 
  • For more than two decades, an immersion school in Montana has aimed to teach the endangered Salish language. Lily Meskers reports how the Nkwusm Immersion School brings elders and children together to breathe new life into an ancestral language.

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Today’s newscast was created with work from:

Shirley Sneve, Ponca/Sicangu Lakota, is vice president of broadcasting for the ICT Newscast. Follow her on Twitter @rosebudshirley. She is based in Nebraska and Minnesota.

Aliyah Chavez, Kewa Pueblo, is the anchor of the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @aliyahjchavez.

Paris Wise, Zia and Laguna Pueblo, is a producer for the ICT Newscast. Email: paris@ictnews.org.

Stewart Huntington is a producer for the ICT Newscast.

Quindrea Yazzie, Diné, is a video production editor for the ICT Newscast. Email: qyazzie@ictnews.org. Yazzie is based in Phoenix.

Daniel Herrera Carbajal is a video editor for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @daniulherrrera

Pauly Denetclaw, Diné, is a political correspondent for ICT. Email her at pauly@ictnews.org

Pacey Smith-Garcia, Ute, is a production assistant for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @paceyjournalist.

Ebonye Delaney is the Executive Producer for the ICT Newscast. Email: ebonye@ictnews.org

Mark Trahant, Shoshone-Bannock, is ICT editor-at-large Email: marktrahant@ictnews.org

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