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MISSOULA, Mont. — In a significant turn of events, an array of Catholic Ursuline Boarding School documents related to the boarding school students of several Indigenous nations in Montana and Alaska will remain in Montana.

Several U-Hauls loaded with every day records, photos, ledgers, scrapbooks and other archives were originally slated to transfer to the Catholic Jesuits in Boston, Massachusetts.

Instead, The History Museum in Great Falls, Montana, successfully secured the keeping of thousands of Ursuline Academy Boarding and Day School records to the Cascade County Historical Society repository. The community building is known as the Ursuline Center now.

Records include vital historical documents of the Northern Cheyenne, Crow, Blackfeet, Gros Ventre, Nakoda, Assiniboine, Salish, Kootenai and Pend d’Oreille people, plus non-Natives who attended the Ursuline schools. READ MORE — Renata Birkenbuel, ICT

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A group of Southeast Alaska tribes requested on Aug. 1 that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights order a temporary pause on Canadian mining activity. They say “reckless” mining activity violates their human rights.

That came after Canada’s Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship ordered on June 27 that the tribes be denied “participating Nation status,” which has the effect of diminishing their say in the permitting process.

Lee Wagner, who is Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian, and the assistant executive director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission, said the 15 tribes in the commission did everything they could to prove their ties to Canadian lands where gold mining is proposed. They won a lawsuit at the Canadian Supreme Court saying tribes with traditional ties to territory within Canada qualify for participating Indigenous nation status. That status would require agencies to consult with and accommodate them in the permitting process. READ MORE — Joaqlin Estus, ICT

The selection of Gov. Tim Walz as a Democratic vice presidential candidate could trigger a cascade of political leadership changes in Minnesota.

Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan said she was “over the moon” when she heard the news that Walz would be running with Vice President Kamala Harris.

“I’m a little biased, of course, but I think Vice President Harris made an incredible choice and this ticket is incredibly meaningful, and I think we’re gonna win in November,” Flanagan said.

If Walz and Harris win, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, White Earth Nation, would become Minnesota’s next governor under succession steps laid out in the Minnesota Constitution.

But in the meantime, Flanagan says the state will continue to run. READ MORE — MPR News

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To protect more than 370,000 acres of the Great Bend of the Gila and Sonoran Desert Landscape, a Democratic congressman from Tucson has introduced legislation to establish a new national monument in southern Arizona.

“The Great Bend of the Gila is a sacred place rich with history and deeply significant to all the communities connected to it,” U.S. Rep Raúl M. Grijalva said in a press release.

Grijalva, a ranking member on the House Natural Resources Committee, introduced the Great Bend of the Gila National Monument Establishment Act this month to protect the cultural, historical, archeological, and natural resources across the Great Bend of the Gila and Sonoran Desert.

The proposed monument consists of 376,963 acres of land administered by the Bureau of Land Management in Arizona. The act will permanently ban the withdrawal of mineral extraction from lands within the monument. Existing grazing leases and permits will not be affected. READ MORE — AZ Mirror

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