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Kolby KickingWoman

Kolby KickingWoman, Blackfeet/A'aniih is a reporter/producer for Indian Country Today. He is from the great state of Montana and currently reports for the Washington Bureau. For hot sports takes and too many Lakers tweets, follow him on Twitter - @KDKW_406. Email - kkickingwoman@indiancountrytoday.com

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Democratic U.S. Sen. Jon Tester, left, and Republican challenger Tim Sheehy face off during a debate in Missoula, Montana, on Sept. 30, 2024. (Ben Allan Smith/The Missoulian via AP, File)
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Native vote could prove critical in Montana U.S. Senate race

By Kolby KickingWoman
Kansas City Chiefs starting center Creed Humphrey, #52, comes onto the field for warmups before a game against the Denver Broncos, on Jan. 1, 2023 in Kansas City, Missouri. Humphrey, from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, is playing in his first Super Bowl on Sunday, Feb. 12, 2023. Humphrey is one of two Indigenous players on the Chiefs' team this year. James Winchester, long snapper from the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is playing in his third Super Bowl for the Chiefs. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)
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Creed Humphrey becomes highest paid NFL center

By Kolby KickingWoman
Smoke from a wildfire rises over trees in Ruidoso, N.M., Monday, June 17, 2024. Residents of the mountain village of about 7,000 residents fled their homes under evacuation orders with little time to rescue belongings. (Jacquie Escajeda via AP)
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Mescalero Apache Tribe hit by wildfire

By Kolby KickingWoman
Lily Gladstone speaks at the University of Montana 2024 graduation ceremony (Photo courtesy of University of Montana)
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Lily Gladstone inspires with unlikely route to success

By Renata Birkenbuel and Kolby KickingWoman
Lily Gladstone
1992 Sporting News Conlon Collection, Jim Thorpe. (Photo by Dalton Walker, ICT)
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Jim Thorpe honored by President Joe Biden

By Kolby KickingWoman
Alexander Tohee (center) stands with a sign at the pro-Palestine protest at the University of Montana on May 1, 2024. (Kolby KickingWoman, ICT)
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Protests spread as finals and summer break approach

By Renata Birkenbuel, Kevin Abourezk and Kolby KickingWoman
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Joe Biden nominates Native woman to federal bench

By Kolby KickingWoman
Mountain Bureau
Lily Gladstone, Siksikaitsitapii and Nimíipuu, was honored by the Blackfeet Nation and Blackfoot Confederacy at large on Tuesday, March 26, 2024. Gladstone was honored with a stand-up headdress, one of the highest honors a person can receive (Photo by Tommy Martino, University of Montana)
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Lily Gladstone goes home

By Kolby KickingWoman
Lily Gladstone
National Congress of American Indians President Mark Macarro, a citizen of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians of California, said in NCAI’s annual State of Indian Nations address that tribes have made gains in recent years, but still have unmet goals. (Photo by Ian McKinney/Cronkite News)
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Mark Macarro: 'Our needs and rights must rise above partisan politics'

By Kolby KickingWoman
Washington DC Bureau
Kansas City Chiefs long snapper James Winchester (#41) celebrates with Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes (15) after their win over the Pittsburgh Steelers on Dec. 26, 2021 in Kansas City, Missouri. Winchester, Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma, is playing in his third Super Bowl for the Chiefs on Feb. 12, 2023. He is one of two Indigenous players this year on the Chiefs' team, along with Creed Humphrey,  Citizen Potawatomi Nation, who is the team's starting center. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann)
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Indigenous representation in the Super Bowl

By Kolby KickingWoman
Ground-breaking Indian cowboy Jack Mark Edmo is shown here riding a saddle bronc known as IndianKiller in the 1970s. Edmo founded the Rocky Mountain Indian Rodeo Association and also worked in local tribal government. He died July 17, 2023, in Billings, Montana, at age 83. BROWNING, Montana — All-around Indian cowboy Jack Mark Edmo, 83, passed away July 17, 2023 in Billings, Montana. His Blackfeet name was “Piitskiinaa” – Shoshone man from the Snake River. He spoke the Blackfeet language fluently and was a member of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes. (Photo courtesy of the Edmo family)
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‘Elite of the elite’

By Kolby KickingWoman
Tescha Hawley (Photo courtesy of Tescha Hawley)
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Native-led nonprofit work leads to national recognition

By Kolby KickingWoman
FILE - Legendary game show host Bob Barker, 83, waves goodbye as he tapes his final episode of "The Price Is Right," in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 6, 2007. Barker signed off from 35 years on the game show and 50 years in daytime TV in the same low-key, genial fashion that made him one of daytime TV's biggest stars. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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Bob Barker’s legacy stretched in, out of Indian Country

By Kolby KickingWoman
Earl Barlow (Photo courtesy Diane Barlow)
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Lifelong Blackfeet educator, dedicated public servant, dies

By Kolby KickingWoman
The Native American Journalists Association has a new name and logo: the Indigenous Journalists Association. The membership voted to rename the organization at the organization's annual conference in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, officials announced at a membership luncheon on Friday, Aug. 11, 2023. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)
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Out with the old, in with the new

By Kolby KickingWoman
Taken July 30, 2023 on the #NiaradaFire, CSKT fire engine 1367 responded to the start of the fire, assisted with initial size-up to engage. (Photo by: Lucas Michel, CSKT Division of Fire Facebook page)
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Fires burn across Montana’s Flathead reservation

By Kolby KickingWoman
Nepal's Indigenous women in traditional attire participate in a rally to mark the International Day of the World’s Indigenous People in Kathmandu, Nepal, Wednesday, Aug. 9, 2023. (AP Photo/Niranjan Shrestha)
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International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples

By Kolby KickingWoman
The Institute of American Indian Arts, a tribal college in Santa Fe, New Mexico, that is one of the leading art institutes in the nation, is the only college in the world dedicated to the study of contemporary Native American and Alaska Native arts. Since being founded in 1962, it has served as a foundation for a number of emerging artists. (Photo courtesy of the Institute of American Indian Arts)
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Supreme Court ruling won’t affect tribal colleges, universities

By Kolby KickingWoman
(Photo from Haudenosaunee Nationals Facebook page)
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Haudenosaunee Nationals win bronze medal

By Kolby KickingWoman
Wooden lacrosse sticks displayed at the National Lacrosse Hall of Fame and Museum at the USA Lacrosse Headquarters in Sparks Glencoe, Maryland. (Photo by Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)
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Men’s Haudenosaunee Nationals seek first world championship

By Kolby KickingWoman
Pictured: U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC.
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Supreme Court rejects Navajo Nation’s water rights trust claim

By Kolby KickingWoman
The U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday, Nov. 9, 2022, in Haaland v. Brackeen, a case that will decide if the ICWA is constitutional. Outside, ICWA supporters were on site in numbers. (Jourdan Bennett-Begaye, ICT)
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Supreme Court affirms ICWA

By Kolby KickingWoman
Participants pose together for a photo at the Holiday Inn during the first Small Town Summits last day in Missoula, Mont. on Wednesday, June 7, 2023. (Photo courtesy of Andrew Kemmis)
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New summit uplifts rural, Indigenous voices to empower

By Kolby KickingWoman and JoVonne Wagner
TikTok social media app. (Photo by Indian Country Today)
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Montana TikTok ban brings questions about digital sovereignty

By JoVonne Wagner and Kolby KickingWoman
Pictured: University of Montana in Missoula.
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University of Montana to have Native commencement speaker

By Kolby KickingWoman
Richard Chalyee Éesh Peterson, Tlingit and Haida, is president of the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska. Jan. 9, 2023 (Photo courtesy of Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska).
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Alaska Federation of Natives see two withdrawals

By Kolby KickingWoman
The Montana Capitol with each of the state's tribal flags. (Eliza Wiley/Montana Free Press)
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Montana tribe, county await legislative action on police reimbursement

By Kolby KickingWoman
Former Blackfeet Tribal Chairman Timothy Davis. (Photo by Tom Bauer, Missoulian)
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Blackfeet council member resigns under controversy

By Kolby KickingWoman
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Navajo Nation water rights case heard before Supreme Court

By Kolby KickingWoman
Montana State guard RaeQuan Battle, right, tournament MVP celebrates with the Big Sky tournament trophy after defeating Northern Arizona in the an NCAA college basketball game for the championship of the Big Sky men's tournament in Boise, Idaho, Wednesday, March 8, 2023, in Boise, Idaho. Montana State won 85-78. (AP Photo/Steve Conner)
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Native players in March Madness

By Kolby KickingWoman and Dan Ninham
NCAI President Fawn Sharp speaks at the Executive Council Winter Session (Photo by Kolby KickingWoman, ICT)
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National Congress of American Indians looks to year ahead

By Kolby KickingWoman
Peggy Flanagan speaking during National Indian Women's "Supporting Each Other" Honoring Lunch (Photo by Kolby KickingWoman, ICT)
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Cycle breakers celebrated at women's luncheon

By Kolby KickingWoman
2023 Champions for Change cohort sits during panel (Photo by Kolby KickingWoman, ICT)
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Champions for Change are ‘shining examples’

By Kolby KickingWoman
NCAI President Fawn Sharp looks out a window at the U.S. Capitol Building at the National Museum of the American Indian (Photo by Kolby KickingWoman, ICT)
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‘Nothing can stop us’

By Kolby KickingWoman
General road closed photo "Road Closed" by Dave Lanovaz is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.
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Impasse over easements lead to roadblocks on northern Wisconsin reservation

By Kolby KickingWoman
Downtown Phoenix during Super Bowl week (Photo by Dalton Walker, ICT)
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Indigenized Super Bowl

By Kolby KickingWoman and Noel Lyn Smith
The Montana state Capitol in Helena on the opening day of the 2023 legislative session on Jan. 2, 2023. (Photo by Blair Miller, Daily Montanan)
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Montana American Indian Caucus hits the ground running

By Kolby KickingWoman
Pictured: Jim Thorpe.
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Indigenous hall of fame announces 2023 class

By Kolby KickingWoman
gavel, justice, legal, law, court
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Sexual misconduct case against Pawnee artist moves to trial

By Kolby KickingWoman
An inmate stands at his cell door at the maximum security facility at the Arizona State Prison in Florence, Arizona in this undated file photo. A report released Jan. 10 highlights an alarming trend that Native Americans are up to seven times more likely to be sentenced to prison that White people. (AP Photo/Matt York)
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Natives incarcerated at alarming rates, report shows

By Kolby KickingWoman
United States' Abby Roque (11), Ojibway, celebrates her goal during the third period of a rivalry series women's hockey game against Canada in Hartford, Conn., Saturday, Dec. 14, 2019. (AP Photo/Michael Dwyer)
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The year in sports for Indigenous athletes

By Kolby KickingWoman
Dr. Karla Bird will join UM as tribal outreach specialist in January 2023. (Credit: Blackfeet Community College)
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University of Montana names new tribal outreach specialist

By Kolby KickingWoman
November 30, 2022 is “Native Women’s Equal Pay Day,” a campaign centered on the gender pay gap for Native women. (2020 Graphic courtesy of Native Women Lead)
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‘If you believe in us, invest in us’

By Kolby KickingWoman
Joye Braun (Photo courtesy Morgan Brings Plenty)
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Joye Braun, the firestorm, dies at 53

By Kolby KickingWoman
Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin Jr. and Kim Teehee outside the U.S. Capitol. (Photo courtesy of Cherokee Nation)
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Cherokee Nation call for delegate to be seated in Congress

By Kolby KickingWoman
Candidates for Montana's Western Congressional District, Monica Tranel, left and John Lamb debate and discuss issues facing Native communities at event hosted by Western Native Voice. (Photo by Kolby KickingWoman, ICT)
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Western Montana candidates talk MMIW, Native issues

By Kolby KickingWoman
2019 Indian National Finals Rodeo 4 - By Jarrette Werk
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Indian National Finals Rodeo is back

By Kolby KickingWoman
Kathryn Shanley speaks at the beginning of the Boarding Schools Symposium held at the University of Montana on Sept. 30, 2022 (Photo by Kolby KickingWoman, ICT)
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Boarding school symposium teaches educators trauma-informed practices

By Kolby KickingWoman
Connecticut Sun forward Jonquel Jones (35) shoot against the Las Vegas Aces during the second half in Game 2 of a WNBA basketball final playoff series Tuesday, Sept. 13, 2022, in Las Vegas. (AP Photo/John Locher)
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Tribally owned Connecticut Sun seek WNBA Finals win

By Kolby KickingWoman
"University of North Dakota" by jimmywayne is licensed under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0.
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Indigenous ancestors found on North Dakota college campus

By Kolby KickingWoman