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After her historic Golden Globes win earlier this month, Lily Gladstone became the first Native American to be nominated for an Oscar for best actress.

Gladstone was nominated Tuesday for her role as Mollie Burkhart in “Killers of the Flower Moon,” making her one of several cast and set members from the film to secure Oscar nominations. On January 7, she won best actress at the Golden Globes.

“It’s all so long overdue. It’s a real moment of restoration, placing Indigenous talent in these roles, spotlighting their humanity, their, their characters, just the way that all of the sisters exist on screen, I think is shattering a lot of stereotypes people have about Indigenous women,” said Gladstone in an interview with the Associated Press from the Oklahoma Osage reservation where the events of the film took place.

“Killers of the Flower Moon” depicts the Osage Reign of Terror, which involved a series of 1920s murders of Osage people by non-Natives who killed them for their oil headrights. READ MORE — Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World

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Award-winning reporter and storyteller Gary Fife of the Muscogee (Creek) Nation died Jan. 14 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was 73.

A leader in Indigenous journalism, Fife produced thousands of stories for radio, television, digital and print media during a 50-plus year career, and wrote opinion pieces using the name “Emvpanayv,” or “one who tells the story.”

In 2021, Fife told ICT that at the peak of the Civil Rights movement, he was studying journalism in college.

“Watching all of the activities going on around the nation with different minority people stepping forward, I personally was wondering, where is the Native American presence in this movement? I also felt, of course, that since we have a federal relationship that no one else has, ours would be different, our presence. So I wanted to be a part of that, and I felt making a positive move for Native American people in the presentation of our information.” READ MORE — Joaqlin Estus, ICT

Around the world: For the first time, there will be a Māori film festival in the Taranaki region of New Zealand, Western Australia’s Indigenous enterprise plan prioritizes sustainability, Northwest Territories elder excited to receive award and there are renewed calls for the release of Uyghur academic.

NEW ZEALAND: Film festival a first for region

The Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre has joined forces with the Wairoa Māori Film Festival to debut the Kiriata Māori Cinema Showcase during Waitangi weekend, a holiday weekend that takes place on the first Monday in February every year, Te Ao Maori News reported on Jan. 21.

The exhibition will feature a curated collection of documentaries, short films and moving image artworks crafted by Māori filmmakers.

The selection was personally curated by Leo Koziol, director of the Wairoa Māori Film Festival. READ MORE — Deusdedit Ruhangariyo, Special to ICT

OHKAY OWINGEH —One of dozens of handwritten posters lining the walls of Joseph Patrick Aguino’s portable classroom phonetically spells out a Tewa prayer for a dance.

Another, with a drawing of GEICO’s gecko, sports a Tewa translation of “Somebody help me, please, I have a flat tire!”

Stacked on and around Aguino’s desk are binders of songs, prayers and translations of stories; vocabulary worksheets filled out by his students; and a homemade storybook about a rabbit and coyote with speech bubbles in Tewa.

The materials have accumulated since Aguino, a member of the Ohkay Owingeh Tribal Council, began teaching two-hour, twice-weekly Tewa language classes to learners of all ages almost 20 years ago. READ MORE — The Santa Fe New Mexican

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Michael Stopp is ICT’s new political contributor. The Cherokee citizen is a former chief of staff for then U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin and worked on Donald Trump’s 2016 and 2020 campaigns rallying Native voters. ICT political correspondent, Pauly Denetclaw, will talk with him about the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary election.

An Alaska Native artist is telling stories through weaving. The Native Arts and Cultures Foundation is honoring Lani Hotch for her work in traditional Chilkat and ravens-tail weaving. She shares the importance of salmon to her nation’s way of life. ICT senior producer, Shirley Sneve, has the story.

Skoden Coffee in Phoenix, Arizona is brewing up java with a side of Diné tradition and innovation, reported by ICT producer Quindrea Yazzie.

After 36 years of leadership, Chairman Arlan Melendez is retiring. He lead the Reno-Sparks Indian Colony that has over a thousand tribal citizens from the Paiute, Shoshone and Washoe nations.

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ELY, Nev. — White attackers turned a lush, high desert oasis in eastern Nevada, with its bubbling springs and a rare stand of Rocky Mountain junipers, into killing fields. They massacred hundreds of Native people there in the 1800s — a horrific history once retold in hushed tones behind closed doors.

That was until tribal members reluctantly found themselves defending the valley’s historical significance in state hearings. In the 2000s, they shared their painful past with authorities weighing whether to divert substantial amounts of groundwater that feeds the valley their relatives have long considered sacred.

To tribal members, Bahsahwahbee — Shoshoni for “Sacred Water Valley” — is where the spirits of their dead live on in the trees growing among the open graves, the final resting place of ancestors who remained where they were slain.

Now they want to tell their story on their own terms. The Ely Shoshone, Duckwater Shoshone, and the Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation — a coalition representing about 1,500 enrolled tribal citizens — are lobbying the federal government to designate nearly 40 square miles (100 square kilometers) as Bahsahwahbee National Monument. READ MORE — Associated Press

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