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Lily Gladstone, the female lead of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” became the first Indigenous nominee in the category of Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture, Drama, at the Golden Globes.
The winners are set to be announced on CBS on Jan. 7 at 8 p.m. Eastern Time.
The film itself received seven nominations: Best Picture (Drama), Best Director, Best Screenplay, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Score. The film’s competitors in the category of Best Picture (Drama) are “Oppenheimer,” “Maestro,” “Past Lives,” “The Zone of Interest” and “Anatomy of a Fall.”
Starring next to Leonardo DiCaprio and Robert De Niro, Gladstone plays Mollie Burkhart, an Osage woman in 1920s Oklahoma who suffers a series of murders of her close Osage Nation friends and family members after oil is discovered on their lands. READ MORE — Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World
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BISMARCK, N.D. — A federal judge on Tuesday rejected a request to delay his decision supporting two tribes that sought changes to North Dakota’s legislative boundaries to give the tribes more influence in the Legislature.
U.S. District Chief Judge Peter Welte denied Republican Secretary of State Michael Howe’s motion to stay his ruling, pending an expected appeal to the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. The Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa Indians and the Spirit Lake Tribe filed the lawsuit early last year.
Last month, Welte ruled that the map violated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 in that it “prevents Native American voters from having an equal opportunity to elect candidates of their choice.” He gave Howe and the Republican-controlled Legislature until Dec. 22 “to adopt a plan to remedy the violation.”
Days after the Nov. 17 ruling, Howe announced his plans to appeal, citing a recent 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that private individuals and groups such as the NAACP can’t sue under a major section of the landmark civil rights law. READ MORE — Associated Press
George (Mangtaquli) Noongwook, a Yupik elder from Savoonga, Alaska, passed away on March 18, 2023. He was 74.
Noongwook was a drummer, singer, and historian of St. Lawrence Island music; an ardent advocate of Yupik and Iñupiaq whaling rights through his decades-long service to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission; a dedicated and insightful scholar of his people and their environment; and devoted to his family and friends.
He was born in Savoonga on Feb. 23, 1949, to Joseph (Saamkumii) and Katherine Toolie (Quunglliqan) Noongwook, the eldest of their seven children. Their large and supportive family included many uncles, siblings, cousins, and other relatives from the Pugughileghmiit clan.
He married Jeannie (Akimuq) Alowa, who predeceased him. He is survived by his many children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. READ MORE— Henry Huntington, Hiroko Ikuta and Igor Krupnik, Special to ICT
Around the world: The United Nations human rights chief accused of ignoring Uyghur genocide, climate funding pledge on track but not to Indigenous groups, and a Western Australia school and Māori TV channel win top awards for excellence
REPORT: Biases divert climate funds away from Indigenous communities
A five-year plan to disburse $1.7 billion to support the land rights of Indigenous and local communities is largely bypassing the very communities it is designed to help, Mongabay reported on Dec. 4.
A report released Dec. 1 indicated that nearly half of the funding has been distributed but only 2.1 percent has been distributed to Indigenous groups and local communities, Mongabay reported.
“We are still struggling to get money directly to Indigenous and local community organizations,” said Kevin Currey, a program officer at the Ford Foundation and author of the new report. READ MORE — Deusdedit Ruhangariyo, Special to ICT
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A decades-long battle over a proposed mine has landed at the Supreme Court. Bristol Bay Alaska Natives filed an amicus brief opposing a State of Alaska complaint to try and revive the proposed mine. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency denied a water permit for the project last January.
It’s Land Back for a Nebraska tribe. Senators from two midwestern states
want land returned to the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska. The sixteen hundred-acre tract was taken by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to stabilize the banks of the Missouri River.
A new Indigenous art collective is being formed. Hekiu will be working with the city of Tempe to make public art and design installations. The installations will be used to show the cultural history of the O’odham, Piipaash and Pascua Yaqui tribes in an urban environment.
Northern Arizona University is home to a groundbreaking science center called the Center for Braiding Indigenous Knowledges and Science. Ora Marek-Martinez is part of this major effort to further spread these essential understandings.
One of the first urban Indian centers is closed – for a major renovation. Since 1975, the Minneapolis American Indian Center has been the gathering place for 35,000 tribal members, who call the Twin Cities their home. ICT’s Shirley Sneve toured the construction site and spoke to Mary LaGarde, its executive director.
Normally journalists just “cover” the story, but Mark Trahant is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He participated in a three-year project, the Commission on Reimagining the Economy. Megan Minoka Hill is the senior director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development. The full report can be found at the Academy’s website, www.amacad.org.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) 2023 Report Card on the Arctic shows the region is heating up as much as four times faster than any other region of the world, and is reaching the highest ever recorded temperatures.
“The overriding message from this year’s report card is that the time for action is now,” said NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad, Ph.D., in a prepared statement. “NOAA and our federal partners have ramped up our support and collaboration with state, tribal and local communities to help build climate resilience. At the same time, we as a nation and global community must dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions that are driving these changes.”
The statement said, ”New records show that human-caused warming of air, ocean, and land is affecting people, ecosystems, and communities across the Arctic.”
“Climate change is not something that’s coming down the pipe somewhere in the future. It is happening now. It’s been happening for decades. And whether you’re talking about fish or people or birds, there are real impacts that we need to deal with right now,” said Rick Thoman, a Alaska climate specialist with the International Arctic Research Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, and lead editor for the report, at a press conference Tuesday. READ MORE— Joaqlin Estus, ICT
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