The Yuma campus of Northern Arizona University is home to a groundbreaking science center. It’s the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science. Ora Marek-Martinez is part of this major effort to further spread these essential understandings.
One of the first urban Indian centers is closed. For a major renovation. Since 1975, the Minneapolis American Indian Center has been the gathering place for 35,000 tribal citizens, who call the Twin Cities their home. ICT’s Shirley Sneve toured the construction site. Mary LaGarde, its executive director.
ICT Editor-at-Large is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He participated in a three year project, the Commission on Reimagining the Economy. Megan Minoka Hill is the senior director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development.
- A decades long battle over a proposed mine has landed at the Supreme Court. Bristol Bay Alaska Natives filed an amicus brief opposing a State of Alaska complaint to try and revive the proposed mine. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied a water permit for the project last January.
- It’s Land Back for a Nebraska tribe. Senators from two midwestern states want land returned to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The 1,600 acre tract was taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stabilize the banks of the Missouri River. The Winnebago Land Transfer Act has also been introduced in the House of Representatives from three states.
- A new Indigenous art collective is being formed. The art collective known as Hekiu will be working with the city of Tempe, Arizona, to make public art and design installations. The installations will be used to show the cultural history of the O’odham, Piipaash and Pascua Yaqui tribes in an urban environment.
