Greetings, relatives.
A lot of news out there. Thanks for stopping by ICT’s digital platform.
Each day we do our best to gather the latest news for you. Remember to scroll to the bottom to see what’s popping out to us on social media and what we’re reading.
Also, if you like our daily digest, sign up for The Weekly, our newsletter emailed to you on Thursdays. If you like what we do and want us to keep going, support and donate here.
Okay, here’s what you need to know today:
CANNES, France – As Osages arrive to attend the world premiere of Martin Scorsese’s “Killers of the Flower Moon,” the first trailer has been released. From first glance, the film will be an intense experience.
Set at the turn of the 20th century, oil brought a fortune to the Osage who became some of the richest people in the world overnight. The wealth of the Osage immediately attracted white interlopers, who manipulated, extorted, and stole as much of the tribe’s money as they could before resorting to murder.
According to an Apple Original Films release, the film is “Based on a true story and told through the improbable romance of Ernest Burkhart (Leonardo DiCaprio) and Mollie Kyle (Lily Gladstone). ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ is an epic western crime saga, where real love crosses paths with unspeakable betrayal.”
The trailer begins with young Osage men, playing in an oil geyser on the Osage Reservation. According to tribal historians, the Osage knew the land was rich with oil when they negotiated to keep the mineral rights to their lands at the time of allotment in 1906. This critical move has been credited to Chief James Bigheart, who fluently spoke seven languages and was a full blood Osage rancher and businessman. READ MORE — Osage News
SUPPORT INDIGENOUS JOURNALISM. CONTRIBUTE TODAY
The National Hockey League’s conference final match-ups kick off Thursday, May 18, and Indigenous players are expected to play a significant role in both series.
Brandon Montour, Mohawk, has been a leader for the Florida Panthers on defense and on the scoreboard during the team’s Stanley Cup run. The Cats will face the Carolina Hurricanes in the Eastern Conference Finals after dispatching the Toronto Maple Leafs in five games in the second round.
Zach Whitecloud, Sioux Valley Dakota Nation, and his Vegas Golden Knights punched their ticket into the Western Conference Finals against the Dallas Stars with a six-game series win over the Edmonton Oilers in the second round. Whitecloud spent critical minutes on the ice in that series against the undisputed top offensive duo in the league.
The strong play on both teams is bringing quiet murmurings of a potential for an Indigenous face-off in the Stanley Cup finals, though it’s anybody’s game at this point since the Stanley Cup favorites, the Boston Bruins, were sent packing in round one by the wild-card Panthers. READ MORE — Miles Morrisseau, ICT
A new law in Washington state will greatly increase access to dental services and help address oral health disparities, say supporters.
On May 15, Washington Gov. Jay Inslee, a Democrat, signed into law a bill authorizing dental health therapists statewide. The new law expands a program that was available only on tribal lands and to tribal patients in Washington. The National Indian Health Board Tribal Oral Health Initiative said the earlier restriction “caused confusion with the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), which had denied Medicaid reimbursement until ordered to do so by the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier this year.”
”All health starts with oral health, and with more dental therapists operating in Washington state, we’re going to see positive health outcomes by taking care of people’s teeth,”said Rep. Marcus Riccelli, D-Spokane, chair of the House Health Care & Wellness Committee, in a prepared statement. He was the prime sponsor of the bill.
Sarah Chagnon, a Swinomish Tribal citizen, is a licensed dental therapist for the Swinomish Dental Clinic. She earlier said of the bill, it “means healing and peace. It is a big step in creating oral health equity in our own and surrounding communities. Having a dental therapist opens the door to more care. Oral health is overall health; everyone deserves a happy and healthy smile.…. I love what I do and hope to inspire future dental therapists.” READ MORE — Joaqlin Estus, ICT
TORONTO, Canada — Katherine Paul stopped in at Toronto’s legendary Horseshoe Tavern on tour for her critically acclaimed new album, “The Land, The Water and The Sky.”
The crowd lined up early to get into the back room where everyone from Hank Williams to The Rolling Stones and another Indigenous guitar hero, Link Wray, has played.
Paul, Swinomish/Inupiaq, who describes herself as a “radical, Indigenous, queer feminist,” performs as Black Belt Eagle Scout, a genre-bending, note-shredding guitar hero whose new record has been dubbed a “tour de force” by Rolling Stone magazine.
This night in mid-April, Paul takes to the iconic Horseshoe stage where the early crowd is split with a younger, more diverse audience standing near the stage, and the older, more male music nerds taking good seats and tables. READ MORE — Miles Morrisseau, ICT
Sign up here to get ICT’s newsletter
An elder of the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, Linda Meanus explores her life story through a new book called “My Name is LaMoosh.” Intended for young readers, it provides a first-hand account of events in Native American history.
Kathleen Sharp talks about digging into the murky ownership history of some items held by New York’s Metropolitan Museum. She was a team member on ProPublica’s “Repatriation Project: The Delayed Return of Native Remains.”
Sasha Houston Brown, a communications and advocacy consultant for Blue Cross Blue Shield, shares tips for Native women navigating a sometimes uninviting healthcare landscape.
Sprawling Midwestern pipelines that would carry captured carbon dioxide from ethanol plants and other facilities would change little when they cross state lines.
The proposals would be constructed the same way in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Nebraska and the Dakotas — with carbon steel pipe ranging from 4 to 24 inches in diameter with operating pressures of up to 2,200 pounds per square inch.
But the rules and procedures that determine whether they can be built in the first place vary widely among those states.
They range from seemingly no rules at all in Nebraska to Iowa’s robust system, which puts all regulation of the pipelines’ construction and operation into the hands of one governing body. READ MORE — South Dakota Searchlight
What’s trending on social media:
- Native students demand accountability for ancestral remains: Dartmouth College is among a growing list of institutions wrestling with how best to handle Native remains and artifacts in their collections, and with what these discoveries say about their past policies regarding Native communities
- No more silence: Boarding school survivor Anita Yellowhair shares her story, over 60 years later
- Traditional canoes return to the waters of the Pacific Northwest: ‘Intertribal Canoe Journey’ and ‘Gathering of the Eagles’ are both back this year
- Artist who falsely claimed Native American heritage sentenced for violations of the Indian Arts and Crafts Act
- Incredible shrinking lakes
- 8-year-old girl dies in Border Patrol custody in Texas
We want your tips, but we also want your feedback. What should we be covering that we’re not? What are we getting wrong? Please let us know. dalton@ictnews.org.
ICT is a nonprofit news organization. Will you support our work? All of our content is free. There are no subscriptions or costs. And we have hired more Native journalists in the past year than any news organization ─ and with your help we will continue to grow and create career paths for our people. Support ICT for as little as $10. Sign up for ICT’s free newsletter.
