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Maybe it was because her nomination was the first for a Native actress. Maybe it was the optimism of film critics at her chances. Maybe it was the reality that Native people have been holding their breath for nearly a century waiting for Hollywood to see us.

Perhaps it was simply Lily Gladstone’s own poise and grace in carrying the hopes of her people.

Whatever the reason (and probably for all these reasons), Native people struggled to make sense of Gladstone losing to actress Emma Stone for best actress at the Academy Awards Sunday night.

It was a historic moment for Native people that featured the first Native performer to be nominated for best actress. Gladstone broke numerous barriers on her road to the Oscars, including becoming the first Native person to be nominated for and to win best actress by both the Screen Actors Guild and the Golden Globes. READ MORE — Kevin Abourezk, ICT

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“He came on horseback, just like a wrangler going to work on a ranch. He spent over three years investigating.”

Wayne Ray Mitchell, sponsor for the Osage Nation’s Oscars party on Sunday, March 10, was sharing a story about the real-life FBI agent who worked to solve the murders of Mollie Burkhart’s family, as depicted in “Killers of the Flower Moon.”

Three decades after the reign of terror in the 1920s Osage reservation, Mitchell was a small child.

“My grandfather told me a story … that most prevailed in my mind (about) the FBI agent coming into Fairfax.” READ MORE — Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World

Nellie Moore was one of the first Indigenous reporters in Alaska, who could sew an atikluk, an Iñupiaq overshirt, as well as stitch news and information into stories that made a difference.

From radio to the Internet, the fabric of Moore’s life spanned a huge revolution in technology. She died recently at the age of 69 from complications due to a long illness.

Moore leaves behind a huge body of work that blends the best of Iñupiaq culture and modern Western journalism.

You can thank her parents for that. Her mother, Ada Ward, instilled the Iñupiaq values of hard work and caring for community, someone who always kept a sack of pancake mix on hand to feed stranded travelers at a moment’s notice. READ MORE— KNBA

When 7-year-old Kahlia White saw an ad for the Oscars Sunday morning, she told her parents, “We have to watch Lily!”

She was of course talking about Lily Gladstone, who grew up on the Blackfeet Reservation and who made history becoming the first Indigenous person to ever be nominated for best actress.

On Sunday evening, Kahlia’s mother, Kayla White, snapped a photo of her daughter watching the award show.

In the photo, Kahlia — whose Blackfeet name is miisumsissttsain’kyaakii and translates to Long Time Singing Bird Woman — stands in the middle of her living room on the Blackfeet Reservation, gazing up at Gladstone on her screen. READ MORE— Missoulian

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A bill to return large tracts of forest land to the White Earth Nation hit a speed bump in the legislature, but tribal officials and lawmakers remain upbeat on the prospects for the effort. ICT’s Stewart Huntington reports.

The Jemez Pueblo potter, Kathleen Wall, inspires many with her signature ceramic pieces Sometimes depicting storytellers, other times depicting key figures like the aunties in her community.

To celebrate the women who have made a difference in our lives and the lives of their Native nations, here’s an encore presentation of an interview from our archives. A novel from an Ojibwe author is based on a fictional, but familiar, place. “A Song Over Miskwaa Rapids” is the latest from Bois Forte citizen Linda LeGarde Grover. ICT’s Shirley Sneve spoke with her.

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“If you let your white man tongues say what is in your Indian heart, you will do great things for your people.” Fred Lookout, Osage tribal chief, 1926-1949, great-grandfather to Walter Acey Junior Hopper

In Martin Scorsese’s film “Killers of the Flower Moon,” there is a brief clip of Osage tribesmen in ceremonial blankets out on a track flailing away at golf balls. The film implies that with the rush of oil money, the Osage discovered golf. Wealth = golf, the rich man’s game. But the history of golf in the tribe goes back well before the oil rush. For the Osage, golf has long been a way to connect to the land, their people, and that history can be seen in the transformational golf instructor Walter Acey Junior Hopper.

Money is, as we know, the dirtiest thing in the world. Cash picks up the scents and soils and biomes of the germed – murderers, grifters and thieves among them. The Osage Nation’s experience with sudden wealth in the 1920s proves this to a tragic fault: the oil wealth brought in every manner of murderous crook and criminal and conniver, and the names associated with the crimes are still being sorted. And it’s true that during the Reign of Terror, Chief Bacon Rind and the Osage hired Perry Maxwell to build a nine-hole course in Pawhuska.

The ghost of Maxwell’s nine-hole sits on the hill in Pawhuska, a large area that is senior housing now. At the time, you could see the oil derricks from the course. Now, there’s a K-8 language immersion school where the Osage language survives. People remember a time when the tribe wanted to purchase the course back. READ MORE — Mark Wagner, Special to ICT

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