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“Reservation Dogs” received four nominations in the 76th annual Emmy Awards, announced the Television Academy on Wednesday.
Canadian actor D’Pharaoh Woon-A-Tai (Bear) won an Emmy nomination as the best lead actor in a comedy series. Woon-A-Tai has become associated with main character Bear Smallhill in “Reservation Dogs.” Bear is a young teen in the coming-of-age comedy series who is the self-acclaimed leader of the Rez Dogs gang. Together, the gang navigates the joys and troubles of growing up in Okern, Oklahoma, on the Muscogee Nation Reservation.
The show also won a nomination for outstanding comedy series. The official “Reservation Dogs” social media pages posted about the announcement Wednesday afternoon.
“Stoodis. Congratulations to the cast and crew of FX’s Reservation Dogs on their Emmy nomination for Outstanding Comedy Series,” the RezDogsFX Instagram page posted. READ MORE — Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World
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Leonard Peltier was released from a four-day hospital stay on Monday, July 16. The Anishinaabe elder’s diabetes has caused him to develop open wounds and tissue death on his toes and feet.
Currently, there is no exact diagnosis for what is affecting Leonard, said Peltier’s lead attorney Jenipher Jones.
Peltier is currently serving two consecutive life sentences in connection to the deaths of two FBI agents in South Dakota in 1975. Peltier is currently serving his time in the Coleman I Maximum Security Prison in Coleman, Florida, and was recently denied parole.
In January, Peltier’s legal team filed an urgent appeal to the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention regarding Peltier’s medical treatment in prison. READ MORE — Amelia Schafer, ICT + Rapid City Journal
MILWAUKEE — The public safety theme on the second evening at the Republican National Convention included a message from Forest County Potawatomi Chairman James Crawford.
His introductory remarks had a land acknowledgement tone for the host city, despite it not being explicit on the evening speech program.
“It was once home to several Potawatomi villages, including a village close to where we sit today,” Crawford told Republican delegates. “Our ancestors occupied these lands for hundreds of years, fishing area rivers and lakes, hunting the land, tapping maple tree groves for sugar and harvesting crops and fields each fall.”
There was no direct endorsement for the ticket, but he did extend goodwill in working with a Donald Trump-J.D. Vance administration in one of his last remarks to the delegate floor. “I look forward to working with everyone here to make America safe again,” Crawford said. READ MORE — Source New Mexico
The ambitious new Kevin Costner film series “Horizon – An American Saga” needed authenticity to portray Native culture from the 1800s. They found that in Dr. David Bearshield, Cheyenne-Arapaho and Kiowa of Oklahoma.
As the “Horizon” films’ Native affairs senior development director, Bearshield, who now lives in Albuquerque, had been working with Mo Brings Plenty from “Yellowstone” on a tribal political issue and Mo referred him to the costume team as they were looking for a Native American who understood the preservation of the culture needed to be showcased correctly.
“Horizon” is being made in four parts with Part One having been recently released. Part Two’s release date was planned for August but will now be announced at a later date.
“Costner wanted to ensure that the correct jewelry, clothing, and precise way of the language was going to be preserved, because that was Kevin Costner’s number one respect to Indian Country to ensure that,” Bearshield told ICT. “When they found me, I had already been plugged in with a lot of the tribes of Southwest America and beyond.” READ MORE — Sandra Hale Schulman, Special to ICT
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Around the world: On anniversary, Uyghurs call for Xinjiang genocide to end, Yaqui water defender battles for a sacred river amid drought, a $47.8 billion child welfare settlement in Canada, and First Nation films featured at Melbourne International Film Festival.
CHINA: Uyghurs call for genocide end
On the 15th anniversary of ethnic violence in Xinjiang, Uyghurs protested at U.N. offices in Switzerland and Chinese embassies globally, urging the international community to halt China’s genocide in the region, Radio Free Asia reported on July 11.
On July 5, Uyghurs marked the 15th anniversary of ethnic violence in Xinjiang. Uyghurs called on the international community to stop what they termed China’s genocide in the region. These protests followed a critical review of China’s human rights record at the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva, where member states condemned China’s treatment of mostly Muslim Uyghurs in Xinjiang, also known as East Turkistan. READ MORE — Deusdedit Ruhangariyo, Special to ICT
On a bright, windy Saturday morning in late June, a long line forms outside Island Peži, a new dispensary opened by Prairie Island Indian Community, home of the Bdewakantunwan Dakota.
A DJ spins popular weed anthems. Food trucks roll up selling coffee and frybread tacos.
Prairie Island Indian Community, located southeast of the Twin Cities, is the fourth tribal nation in Minnesota to open a dispensary in the past year — and the first to tap into demand for cannabis in the large Twin Cities market less than an hour away.
While trade between tribal nations goes back millennia, the legalization of cannabis in Minnesota is ushering in a new wave of intertribal trade. READ MORE — MPR News
- Serial killer who targeted Indigenous women gets life sentence in Canada: Family members grateful ‘that monster will never step foot out of a prison’
- State, BIA partner for tribal law enforcement training: Three tribes send officers to Pierre, S.D., for local law enforcement training, allowing officers to stay close to home while becoming certified
- Hawaiian students take history projects to Washington, D.C.: Natives showcase their research at Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in National History Day program
- Iqaluit graduate one of 20 selected nationwide for Indigenous scholarship
- Native man used as alleged proof of cartel presence takes plea deal
- Navajo uranium miners demand justice as Congress lets aid program lapse
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