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Tobi Maracle was taking her oldest child to the Child and Family Developmental Services even before it opened a new clinic in the Alaska Native Medical Center in Anchorage.
By the time the child was 5 years old, they were visiting three times a week for speech and occupational therapy. A months-long wait for applied behavioral services was ending, and they were excited by the progress.
Then the pandemic came and everything stopped.
Maracle, the mother of three children in an Anishinaabe-Mohawk family, wasn’t sure what would happen next. Within a few weeks, however, her phone rang. The healthcare workers were ready to run their sessions online. They assembled kits with the needed materials and dropped them by the house.
She was surprised how fast her 5-year-old adapted to this new way of working with both the occupational therapist and speech-language pathologist online. READ MORE.— Peggy Heinkel-Wolfe, Special to ICT
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In May of 2021, Abbey Lynn Steele gave birth to her first child, a baby boy.
A urine test showed methamphetamine in his system.
Steele, who turned 19 that month, also tested positive for meth.
The drug’s detection in the baby’s urine assured that Steele would not keep full custody under South Dakota law. Its presence in her system set in motion a series of events that defined the rest of her short life.
Instead of receiving a visit from a counselor or a trip to treatment, the young mother was charged with felony ingestion of a controlled substance. Some states criminalize drug ingestion, but South Dakota is the only state in the nation with a law that explicitly allows authorities to press felony charges that could result in prison time. READ MORE. — South Dakota Searchlight
Clouds blanket Puget Sound and the rain starts at dawn. “Do you have oil gear?” Leeroy Courville asks as we sit in the wheelhouse of his boat, the High Liner.
“Just this Red Ledge.”
Leeroy laughs and digs out some Grundens gear for me. It’s a good thing too, because the rain starts to beat down.
The High Liner lies tied to the Muckleshoot tribal dock in a heavily industrialized stretch of the Duwamish River. A pair of 454 Mercruiser gas engines power the 32-foot by 11-foot bow picker, but one is broken down. Nonetheless, one is enough to get us out to Elliot Bay, where Courville hopes to gillnet a few more chum salmon before the tribe closes the season.
“This could be the last day,” he says. “I might just make one set and come in. But if I get 40 fish, I’ll make another set. A hundred fish is $2,000.” READ MORE. — National Fisherman
A 15-foot-tall woman with piercing eyes stares out over the Salish Sea.
From her vantage point, she faces the Edmonds ferry dock, then the sea, and off in the distance, the Tulalip Reservation.
When the Edmonds Waterfront Center commissioned Ty Juvinel to carve a welcome figure, he knew he wanted to dedicate it to mothers — to the matriarchs by blood or by happenstance — who guide and strengthen communities.
“Mothers, grandmothers, they can see the potential you have that you don’t know yet,” said Juvinel, a citizen of the Tulalip Tribes. “They help push you in ways that sometimes you can’t see.”
Cut into a single, 500-year-old cedar log shipped down from Alaska, a grandmother towers with open, outward-facing palms. A young girl with matching iridescent eyes stands at her feet. Perched atop a base of salmon depicted in the Coast Salish style, the grandmother has handed the girl a traditional toy rattle, thus passing down her heritage. READ MORE. — Everett Herald
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Sean Chandler is among five Native artists selected for the prestigious Eiteljorg Contemporary Art Fellowship.
Selected artists each receive an unrestricted grant of $50,000, and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art in Indianapolis plans to purchase more than $100,000 worth of their work to add to its collection of contemporary Indigenous art. Pieces by the five artists will be on display at the museum, starting in November. Chandler is among a handful of artists from Montana to win the fellowship since it was created in 1999.
Chandler creates abstract oil paintings on stretched canvas. He said his work reflects “old hide painting style,” mimicking petroglyphs painted on rock.
Eiteljorg Museum Curator Dorene Red Cloud said Chandler “was a clear choice for the selectors.” READ MORE. —Missoulian
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- University of Montana names new tribal outreach specialist: ‘It’s important for tribal people across Montana to see a tribal person in this area of education.’
- Chief Standing Bear film receives green light: ”I Am a Man’ is an important Native American story that needs to be told.’
- Rapa Nui rebounds from wildfire that singed its statues:The remoteness of what is widely known as Easter Island has shaped the community’s view of the world, its spirituality and culture. Its small size also plays a part: it seems everyone knows one other.
- More questions than answers at Colorado River meetings:Deadlines about what to do are fast approaching.
- Alcohol-related deaths in New Mexico rose sharply in 2021: Legislators are working on new laws to limit alcohol’s impact on communities.
- Red Lake Nation population projections take center stage at listening sessions.
- Cherokee Nation Film Office earns recognition for Native American directories.
- Senator Jon Tester addressing Native American veteran health.
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