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Indigenous hockey player Brandon Montour and his upstart Florida Panthers shocked the hockey world by defeating the top-seeded Boston Bruins in game seven of the first round of the National Hockey League’s Stanley Cup playoffs.
Montour scored two goals in the 5-4 overtime victory on Sunday, April 30, including the game-tying goal with less than a minute left and the Florida net empty.
The defeat of the storied Bruins sent social media into an uproar, with much of the credit going to Montour in what continues to be a record-setting year for the 29-year-old Mohawk from Six Nations of the Grand River.
Montour set the team record for most game-winning goals this season and set a new franchise scoring record for a defenseman with 73 points. He was modest about his success, however, after the final game Sunday with the Bruins. READ MORE. — Miles Morrisseau, ICT
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“The World’s Longest Native American Painting” is nearly the size of a basketball court that is made up of 280 Native women from over 250 tribes in the United States. Artist Daniel Ramirez envisions having a life size scale of the painting at the National Mall in Washington D.C. one day.
“So that you can make this big, beautiful circle that people who are in D.C. can go inside there and see all the colors, the women and get a feel for it like that,” he said.
As well as it being animated online where kids can “have this physicality with the ladies and click on her and she’s going to walk forward and tell the story of her tribe,” he said.
Ramirez brought four of the 12 sections to the Reservation Economic Summit for three days in April as part of his display for the Native Art Market. He has been working on it for over a decade when he was a featured artist at the National Museum of the American Indian. READ MORE.— Kalle Benallie, ICT
The Supreme Court heard oral arguments on Monday, April 24, for the case Lac du Flambeau Band v. Coughlin. The ruling may possibly have implications for tribes and tribal subsidiaries in the bankruptcy process.
This case revolves around Brian Coughlin who took out a payday loan from Lendgreen, a tribally-owned subsidiary of the Lac du Flambeau Band Of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians in Wisconsin, and later filed for bankruptcy. As part of the action, he sued the tribe to enforce an automatic stay on his bankruptcy and for money damages. READ MORE. — Kalle Benallie, ICT
A popular Native American children’s show has been renewed for an upcoming season.
Season two of “Spirit Rangers” will continue following Kodi, Summer, and Eddy, a group of Native siblings who go on adventures protecting their homeland.
The first season of the show, created by Mexican and Chumash writer Karissa Valencia, premiered in 2022 on Indigenous Peoples Day.
The first season of “Spirit Rangers” featured a host of Native writers, and voice actors.
Netflix viewers from 180 countries will be able to see the premiere of the next season on May 8. — ‘ICT Newscast with Aliyah Chavez’
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There was something wrong, Victoria Compton thought, about the items being sent out into the world in a Store-Closing-Everything-Must-Go sale.
The ancestral objects shouted “Indigenous” in “very British” Victoria, the capital of the Canadian province of British Columbia, whose opulent Empress Hotel, Parliament building and street names are reminders of the British Empire’s expansion in the 19th century.
Among the ancestral objects up for sale: hand-woven baskets, one a century old and made using tule, feathers and porcupine quills; moccasins with an intricate, beaded flower design; fur-lined leather mittens; a carved serving spoon; and a baby carrier. READ MORE. — Richard Arlin Walker, Special to ICT
- Treasury: US could default as soon as June 1: Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen added that it is impossible to predict with certainty the exact date of when the U.S. will run out of cash.
- Indigenous student settles lawsuit against school district: ‘I hope it shows them that it is OK to be proud of who you are and where you come from.’
- Motive may never be known in James Smith Cree Nation killings: Police say that after nearly eight months, the investigation into the stabbing rampage is still not complete.
- Pope voices willingness to return Indigenous loot, artifacts: The Vatican has an extensive collection of artifacts and art made by Indigenous peoples from around the world.
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- Chrissy Downwind Promoted to VP for American Indian Student Success at BSU, NTC.
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