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On Mean Girls Day no less, U.S. Rep. Kevin McCarthy was ousted as speaker, a first for Congress. After a contentious nine months, House Republicans are once again going to attempt to elect a new speaker. The House won’t elect a new speaker until next Tuesday after the candidates forum.

“I think this is an extraordinarily irresponsible thing to do,” Rep. Tom Cole said in his weekly video address on Wednesday.

The speaker pro tempore is North Carolina’s Patrick McHenry, who was selected by McCarthy.

Both Indigenous House Republicans from Oklahoma, Tom Cole, Chickasaw, and Josh Brecheen, Choctaw, opposed the vote to remove McCarthy. Rep. Sharice Davids of Kansas, Ho-Chunk, voted with 207 of her Democratic colleagues to remove McCarthy. Just eight Republicans joined them, giving the minority party the votes. READ MORE — Pauly Denetclaw, ICT

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A federal judge in Texas has ruled that the city of San Antonio must allow Native American Church members access to a sacred site for ceremonies near the headwaters of the San Antonio River.

U.S. District Court Judge Fred Biery ruled Monday, Oct. 2, however, that the city could resume efforts to deter egrets and herons from nesting in certain trees designated for removal as long as those efforts were not done on dates when ceremonies are scheduled.

In guaranteeing Native American Church members access to Yanaguana, considered the Coahuiltecan creation site, Biery issued a warning for church members.

“Spiritual reflection and connection contemplate being done in the quiet of a forest or a traditional house of worship,” Biery stated in the order. READ MORE — Richard Arlin Walker, Special to ICT

Esteemed actress Tantoo Cardinal wore a gasp-inducing, silk feather dress, custom-made by Pueblo designer Patricia Michaels, for the international movie premiere of the highly anticipated Osage drama, “Killers of the Flower Moon,” in Cannes, France.

Cardinal and the dress, which Michaels calls “Tantoo in Flight,” made such an impact on the red carpet that she and the dress were asked to close out the recent Southwestern Association for Indian Art Gala fashion show at Santa Fe Indian Market.

But the dress almost didn’t make it home from France after being held hostage in an international drama, Michaels told ICT from the historic Taos Pueblo where she lives and works.

It started with French authorities questioning the shipping label on the dress and advanced to French customs officials challenging the origin of the luxurious dress. READ MORE— Sandra Hale Schulman, Special to ICT

PHOENIX – A fire that broke out at a landfill at about 4 p.m. Saturday on the Salt River Indian Reservation, near N. Beeline Highway east of Scottsdale, had been reduced to a smolder by Tuesday afternoon.

After firefighters were done combating the blaze, said Chuck Kmet, emergency manager for the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community, a green waste contractor was hired to help further manage the remaining smolder.

Though the flame has been stifled, the lingering smoke may cause or exacerbate various health concerns, one expert said.

Stacey Mortenson at the American Lung Association in Arizona said people may experience a variety of symptoms in response to the smoke, such as wheezing, chest heaviness, lightheadedness, dizziness and shortness of, or difficulty taking, breaths. READ MORE — Cronkite News

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PBS’s “Native America” series is returning for its second season. The Native-directed project reveals the beauty and power of today’s Indigenous communities. ICT’s Paris Wise spoke with two of the producers and directors: Pam Belgard and Daniel Golding.

A report released this week in Colorado details the difficult and tragic history of the state’s nine federal Indian boarding schools. The report was mandated by the Legislature and researchers and officials hope it can serve as a step toward truth and reconciliation. ICT’s Stewart Huntington went to the campus of Fort Lewis College where the movement in Colorado began years ago.

The MacArthur Fellowship is an $800,000 no-strings-attached award to “extraordinarily talented and creative individuals.” Three Indigenous creators were included in this year’s announcement.

Raven Chacon, who is Dine’, is a composer whose work cuts across boundaries of visual art and performance to illuminate landscapes, their inhabitants and histories. Last year Chacon became the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Another winner is Dyani White Hawk. She is a Lakota multimedia artist. Hawaii Native Patrick Makuakāne, is a Kumu Hula and Cultural Preservationist. He blends traditional hula with contemporary music and movements.

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Alaska’s largest Native organization has sided with the federal government in its dispute with the state over salmon management in the Kuskokwim River, saying that the state’s position is attacking its interests and those of its members.

The Alaska Federation of Natives on Tuesday filed a motion to intervene in the lawsuitfiled by the federal government over management of fishing in the Kuskokwim River, a place where salmon scarcities have produced hardships.

The lawsuit, filed on May 17, 2022, was aimed at stopping state-authorized fishing in the part of the Kuskokwim River that flows through the Yukon Delta National Wildlife Refuge.

Federal officials had allowed only rural residents to engage in subsistence fishing there, in accordance with the rural preference rule embedded in the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. But the state opened subsistence fishing there to all Alaska residents. READ MORE — Alaska Beacon

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