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Lily Gladstone – the female lead of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon” – continued making history Sunday, becoming the first Native woman to win the Golden Globe award for best actress in a dramatic film.
In December, Gladstone became the first Native woman nominated for the award for her role in “Killers of the Flower Moon.” The awards were announced Sunday night at the Golden Globe award ceremony held at the Beverly Hilton hotel in Los Angeles.
In a recent People’s article, Gladstone is quoted saying she prefers she/they pronouns. ICT will use she/they interchangeably to refer to Gladstone.
In her speech, Gladstone spoke some of her Blackfeet language and thanked those that helped her reach this moment. READ MORE. — Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World
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The City of Martin, South Dakota and the Oglala Sioux Tribe are at odds over a public records request sent by the tribe.
The City of Martin has asked that the Oglala Sioux Tribe waive its sovereign immunity or pre-pay an undetermined amount of attorney fees and administrative fees for the records it requested. The South Dakota American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) is challenging this through the South Dakota Office of Hearing Examiners.
On August 25, under the South Dakota Sunshine Act, the tribe requested records relating to potential violations of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, according to the South Dakota ACLU.
The initial request from the tribe asked for an extensive list of documents, each of which span a time range of 20 years, including election results, redistricting maps (boundary changes and reorganization plans), agendas from meetings where redistricting was discussed, any and all analysis of Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act or Gingles factors and more. READ MORE. — Amelia Schafer, ICT + Rapid City Journal
Missing children, sinister spirits, and surrealist realist Frida Kahlo are among the Indigenous stories making their screen debuts at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival, which kicks off Jan. 18 in Utah.
The Sundance Institute recently announced that eight Indigenous films are among the 82 films, eight episodic titles and a New Frontier interactive experience that have been selected for the 40th anniversary of the acclaimed festival.
“The selection of Indigenous-made films at this year’s festival, our 40th anniversary no less, really showcases the strengths of our communities’ artists,” Adam Piron, Kiowa/Mohawk, director of the Sundance Institute’s Indigenous Program, told ICT. READ MORE. — Sandra Hale Schulman, Special to ICT
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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Kicking up a cloud of dust, the men riding bareback were in a rowdy scramble to be the first to lean down from atop their horses and grab hold of the chicken that was buried up to its neck in the ground.
The competition is rarely on display these days and most definitely not with a live chicken. And yet, it was this Navajo tradition and other horse-based contests in tribal communities that evolved into a modern-day sport that now fills arenas far and wide: rodeo.
With each competition, Native Americans have made them decidedly theirs — a shift from the Wild West shows and Fourth of July celebrations of centuries past that reinforced stereotypes. Rodeo has provided a stage for Native Americans, many of whom had nomadic lifestyles before the U.S. established reservations, to hone their skills and deepen their relationship with horses. READ MORE. — Associated Press
- Young mother hopes to come back home to serve Native community: Elementary education student Aulora Severance was awarded United Tribes Technical College student of the month for November.
- Alaska Native mutual aid network tackles climate crisis: The Smokehouse Collective invests in ‘our resilience as Native peoples to persevere in our cultures despite the global impacts we are facing.’
- Native Hawaiian salt makers combat climate change to protect tradition: The multi-step process used by Native Hawaiian families is several centuries old.
- Navajo Nation charges 2 in complex marijuana case: The growing operation first made headlines in 2020 when local police found Chinese immigrant workers trimming marijuana in motel rooms in a nearby community.
- Native protesters resolve lawsuit over Nebraska development: ‘We will continue to work to remind our neighbors here in Lincoln that their Indigenous relatives are here, will remain here and will never surrender their rights and their culture.’
- Alaska lost a challenge to a COVID-era emergency moose hunt. Now, it’s appealing for a second time.
- Cree policy analyst Jennifer Laewetz using social media to make politics more exciting.
- ‘We are all Palestinian’: 2nd Iqaluit rally calls for Gaza ceasefire.
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