States across the country are holding primaries and caucuses ahead of the presidential election. What’s the difference between the two, and how do they affect our presidential elections? ICT Political Correspondent Pauly Denetclaw brings us Politics 101.

Indigenous arts across the world start with resources. The Hawaiian art of making kapa, cloth made from tree bark, is no different. Maile Andrade works with kapa–from the ground up. ICT’s Shirley Sneve has the story.

Yakama Nation elder and leader Ted Strong has died, at age 76. Considered a warrior for the tribes of his region, Strong was a passionate advocate for the melding of Western science and traditional ecological knowledge to benefit salmon. Mark Trahant has this interview from 2022 at the Reservation Economic Development Summit in Las Vegas.

  • Around the country, public health officials say they are alarmed by an increase in cases of syphilis in American Indian and Alaska Native people. Meghan Curry O’Connell is Cherokee and the chief public health officer for the Great Plains Tribal Leaders Board.
  • In South Dakota, Oglala Sioux President Frank Star Comes Out banished Gov. Kristi Noem from the homelands of the Oglala Lakota Nation. The action comes after she announced her intentions to send razor wire and officers to Texas to deter migrants seeking to enter the United States. Many migrants are Indigenous people who come in search of a better life.
  • A new report reveals the unmet needs of some Alaska Native villages. The Alaska Native Tribal Health Consortium has released its assessment and recommendation in supporting Alaska tribal communities through climate change.
  • A debt collection firm in Colorado is being penalized after charging Native Americans more than 500 percent interest rates. Kansas based company TrueAccord has reached a settlement with Colorado, and must pay $500,000 for their illegal debt collection practices.
  • An Alaska Native author has won national honors for her debut novel. Inupiaq author Nasuġraq Rainey Hopson has won a Newberry Honor and an American Indian Youth Literature Award for her book “Eagle Drums.”

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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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