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Lily Gladstone, Kainai (Blood), Amskapi Piikani (Blackfeet) and Niimiipuu (Nez Perce) tribal nations, could make history if she wins in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama, at the Golden Globes. She already made history by becoming the first Indigenous nominee in the category.
Gladstone has received critical acclaim as the female lead of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” alongside Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro.
The film centers on an Osage woman in 1920s Oklahoma who suffers a series of murders of her close Osage Nation friends and family members after oil is discovered on their lands.
The Golden Globes are set to announce the winners on CBS on Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
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Since time immemorial, members of the five tribes that comprise the Chinook Indian Nation spent their winters in a sheltered inland spot along a creek that feeds the Naselle River. The U.S. government forced Chinook people from their winter home and in the 1960s, Washington State converted the area to a juvenile detention center. Now, the state has closed the facility and is mulling a plan to return the land to the Chinook Indian Nation.
The Naselle Youth Camp, a juvenile detention facility, has been empty since state officials closed it in September 2022, with the exception of a single maintenance worker. In July, a task force was convened by the Washington state Office of Financial Management to help decide what to do next with the camp property and facilities.
The task force appears poised to recommend action aligned with calls from the Chinook Indian Nation for the return of the land and Naselle Youth Camp facility. READ MORE — Luna Reyna, Underscore News + ICT
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A federal grant will allow the Muscogee Nation to fund the master plan for its college campus in Okmulgee, with a stadium expansion, a makers lab and a clock tower plaza.
The $334,264 award, from USDA Rural Development’s Distance Learning Grants Program, announced Monday will fund a STEM building with multimedia display screens, according to College of the Muscogee Nation President Monte Randall.
The building will include a Maker’s Space Lab, a communal learning environment with tools and components allowing students to enter with an idea and leave with a completed project.
“As students become more technologically astute, CMN must continue to grow and build an institution that keeps pace with college community needs and accommodate instructional and student learning,” Randall said in an interview Thursday.
The grant also will fund more seating at the campus’s basketball facility, he said, and a planned clock tower and surrounding plaza will create a new space for social gatherings and cultural events.
“The visibility of the clock tower, located at the heart of the campus, will create a positive atmosphere of pride for our students, faculty, staff and tribal members,” Randall said. READ MORE — Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World
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