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Mashpee Wampanoag citizen Sherry Pocknett is a James Beard Foundation award winner.
On Monday, the chef was awarded Best Chef Northeast.
Pocknett has been cooking locally and seasonally since she was growing up on Cape Cod in the 1960s. She is the owner of the Sly Fox Den Too in Charlestown, Rhode Island.
Learn more about Pocknett here.
Last year, Owamni in Minneapolis, Minnesota won Best New Restaurant from James Beard. The popular restaurant is owned by Sean Sherman, Oglala Lakota, and Dana Thompson, lineal descendant of the Wahpeton-Sisseton and Mdewakanton Dakota tribes
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There is nothing like the Stanley Cup playoffs. No other team sport comes close to the speed of the game and the only team game close in violence is football, so imagine if the Super Bowl winner had to win 16 games.
It is said that the Stanley Cup is the hardest championship to win in professional sports. Game 2 on Monday was proof. Vegas Golden Knights forward Ivan Barbashev met Florida Panthers tough guy Radko Gudas who was looking for a hit and in turn knocked Gudas out of the game in the first period. The Cats leading instigator and big time scorer Matthew Tkachuk caught Vegas star forward Jack Eichel coming across his own blueline with his head down and laid him out. Eichel went to the room for some repairs, but he was back on the bench to finish the game.
The Knights jumped out to a quick 4-0 lead with Zach Whitecloud, Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, assisting on the third goal, which turned out to be the winner. At 2:59 of the second period, Whitecloud sent the puck to William Carrier who fed Nicolas Roy who beat Sergei Bobrovsky with a wrist shot. The goal would stand as the winner as the Golden Knights skated to victory, 7-2. READ MORE. — Miles Morrisseau, ICT
Donned in traditional Navajo attire made by her grandmother and a yellow and white beaded cap, eighth-grade student Lilliana Ward was not allowed to walk at her May 30 graduation ceremony in Illinois due to the school’s “no decorations” policy.
Instead, Ward, Navajo and Choctaw, watched from afar from the gymnasium bleachers as her classmates were celebrated during commencement on the gym floor. Ward wore her school cap and gown along with traditional moccasins, a turquoise bracelet and her hair in a tsiiyeel or Navajo bun.
This happened despite a recently passed state bill that would allow students to wear identity-based attire to graduations. READ MORE. — Amelia Schafer, Special to ICT
“The foundation of the Alaska Federation of Natives is our people,” said the statewide organization’s President and CEO Julie Kitka, Chugach Eskimo, after a quarterly meeting of the organization’s board held on May 15. Her comment focused on the theme of this fall’s annual AFN convention: Our Ways of Life.
It’s also perhaps a response to the predicament the organization finds itself in: a diminishing membership. AFN represents and advocates to influence policy for 158 federally recognized tribes, 141 village corporations, nine regional corporations, and 10 regional nonprofit and tribal consortiums that contract and compact to run federal and state programs.
The National Congress of American Indians, a national tribal policy organization based in the nation’s capital, is similar to AFN in terms of trying to represent hundreds of tribes with a wide range of interests and backgrounds while maintaining membership.
What drives members to resign? What keeps them united? READ MORE. — Joaqlin Estus, ICT
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Traditional gender roles in Native cultures have included Two-Spirit people in a significant way. An Oglala Lakota poetry program gives voice to youth. And crisis averted — federal officials have passed legislation on the debt ceiling. But what’s in it for Native communities?
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As I type this, my husband and I are on our way home from Cannes, France, having attended the world premiere of the upcoming film, “Killers of the Flower Moon” at the Cannes Film Festival.
We’re currently traveling at 506 mph at 33,000 feet and are somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean. We still have four-and-a-half hours to go until we land in Atlanta. I think my current position in the sky is a perfect metaphor for this once-in-a-lifetime trip.
I recently covered the Cannes Film Festival. My husband Jason and I walked the red carpet for the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s film, “Killers of the Flower Moon.” I wore my traditional Osage clothes for the occasion. We attended a Hollywood after-party in a chateau that looked like it was straight out of “The Great Gatsby.” I interviewed the stars of the new film and had a one-on-one interview with the legendary director. READ MORE. — Shannon Shaw Duty, Special to ICT
- Yakutat youth participate in marine debris cleanup: They’re part of a federally funded project managed by the city and the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe.
- Native storytelling cemented with N. Scott Momaday ceremony: A Legacy Stone was dedicated in honor of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Kiowa author.
- Regaining the land and the white bison: Among the plans the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes have in store for its newly regained bison refuge is securing a home for the long lost Big Medicine.
- Chef takes Indigenous flavors to ‘Great American Recipe’: Maria Given’s Native foods will face a multicultural menu on the PBS show’s new season.
- National park board appoints first Native member: Yakama Nation citizen Aja DeCoteau is the executive director of the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission.
- Colorado museums changing their approach to Indigenous history and culture.
- When thousands flocked to see ‘Deerfoot.’
- Edith Kanaka’ole is the first Hawaiian woman to grace a U.S. quarter.
- New open call for documentary short proposals on Indigenous legal history.
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