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:

This spring, Maddison Long (Navajo, Coeur D’Alene) signed on for an athletic scholarship to attend the University of Maryland, where she will play in a D1 golf program. This is the next step in a journey that has filled a trophy case and then some. Named New Mexico Player of the Year in District 1 5A, a division she won two years in a row, this year Maddison also took top five honors in New Mexico’s statewide tournament.

What makes Maddison stand out is her poise and determination, but also that her success may be seen as the work of many hands, many people, and new levels of organizational support for young Native American athletes.

Kristi Daniels-Long (Coeur d’Alene) is the mother of Maddison and Maddison’s sister, Olivia, also a decorated golfer. Kristi relates how important Nike N7 and NB3 (the foundation founded by Notah Begay lll) have been to these two young champions. Both have also taken lessons with Jason Montoya (Santa Ana Pueblo) at ElevateMindBodyGolf at Santa Ana Golf Club. Maddison was also selected – along with Zachary BlueEyes – to play in the 2023 Begay Championship and was part of the PGA Pathways to Progression program. A proud mother, Kristi had been around the junior golf scene to offer a long perspective. READ MORE— Mark Wagner, Special to ICT

SUPPORT INDIGENOUS JOURNALISM. CONTRIBUTE TODAY

What happened on Day 4

In the men’s 200-meter butterfly, Lewis Clareburt, Tainui and Waikato, New Zealand, placed seventh in his heat in 1:57:12, and he didn’t place in the top 16 to advance to the semifinals.

In men’s volleyball, USA defeated Germany 3-2 in the preliminary round and had to play a fifth game decider. Team USA includes Micah Makanamaikalani Christenson, a Native Hawaiian professional volleyball player who plays as a setter.

Simone Biles and her Indigenous Hmong teammate Sunisa Lee led the way for the USA Women to win the Gold Medal in Team Gymnastics.

New Zealand, which includes several Indigenous players, defeated Canada (a team that includes Shalaya Valenzuela, a member of the Tseshaht First Nation) in the Rugby Sevens to earn the Gold Medal. Australia was defeated by USA for the Bronze Medal. From the Olympics.com media release: READ MORE — Dan Ninham, Special to ICT

Around the World: Xinjiang authorities demand Uyghurs report guests within hours, Indigenous midwives in Panama strive to protect traditional medicine, and Nalderun students receive educational and cultural support.

CHINA: Uyghurs told to report guests immediately

Authorities in at least two regions of Xinjiang have recently intensified a mandate requiring Uyghurs to inform police about guests in their homes within 10 minutes to two hours of their arrival, according to three Uyghur township government officials, Radio Free Asia reported on July 23.

Initially implemented in June 2015, this policy has been increasingly enforced under the leadership of Ma Xingrui, who became the Communist Party secretary of Xinjiang in December 2021. The requirement is part of a broader set of strict surveillance measures by Chinese authorities aimed at closely monitoring Uyghur activities, amidst widespread human rights abuses in the region that the United States and some Western parliaments have characterized as genocide and crimes against humanity. China has denied these allegations.

Some Uyghurs have commented online, attributing the Chinese authorities’ focus on Uyghur gatherings to government oppression, while others speculate the primary motive is to suppress information about the ongoing genocide in Xinjiang. A recent incident involved a resident of Yengisheher county in Kashgar prefecture, who, along with his wife, was detained at the Yapchan village police station for failing to report the arrival of a relative from Ghulja. The couple was released after a night of interrogation, and their guest, feeling the pressure, ended the visit early and returned home. The guest remarked, “It’s like this everywhere,” suggesting similar practices are enforced in Ghulja as well. READ MORE— Deusdedit Ruhangariyo, Special to ICT

Attorneys for Greenpeace have asked a North Dakota judge to dismiss a lawsuit brought by the developer of the Dakota Access Pipeline over the environmental activist group’s organized opposition to the pipeline.

Thousands of protesters came to south-central North Dakota in 2016 and 2017 to protest construction of the pipeline in solidarity with the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, which opposed the project out of concerns the pipeline infringed on its sovereignty and threatened to pollute its water supply. Greenpeace was among the activist groups that backed the demonstrations.

Energy Transfer Partners’ lawsuit, filed in Morton County District Court in 2019, accuses Greenpeace of criminal behavior — including trespassing, vandalism, arson as well as the harassment and assault of construction workers — to stop the pipeline, often referred to as DAPL. The pipeline company also alleges that the environmental group solicited money to support unlawful activity against the pipeline and incited riotous behavior by protesters.

On top of this, the plaintiffs claim Greenpeace orchestrated an misinformation campaign that ultimately convinced the federal government to halt construction of DAPL for roughly five months. They also say these actions led multiple banks to divest from the pipeline company. READ MORE — North Dakota Monitor

Sign up here to get ICT’s newsletter

Native people have been forced to leave their earth lodges and walk to strange new lands where they’ve had to live in tents or ramshackle wood homes. We have lived in rundown government housing and double-wide and single-wide trailers. Too often, we have been unable to afford to buy a well-built home – the proverbial “American Dream.”

I am Seneca. The lands our ancestors called home, the soil that massaged our feet and that we shared with animal and plant relatives, stretched beyond our horizons. Although we had long-term settlements in the woodlands of the Northeast, we made adjustments, sometimes moving and changing with the seasons and our needs. Our homelands were vast regions spanning millions of acres that those early stumblers upon the eastern seaboard deemed undisturbed.

As one of the original five nations of Haudenosaunee – people of the Longhouse; formerly referred to as the Iroquois Confederacy – the Seneca were the “Keepers of the Western Door” safeguarding the western front of the Confederacy in what is now called New York State. Historians have called the Seneca the largest and most powerful of the five nations.

The Seneca or Onödowá’ga:’ the People of the Great Hill, as we call ourselves, were spread throughout a swath of lands across what is now 14 counties in central and western New York, western Pennsylvania, a portion of southern Ontario, Canada, and throughout the Ohio and Allegheny river systems. General George Washington’s scorched-earth military campaign under generals James Clinton and John Sullivan in 1779 ensured the Seneca were run out of the Finger Lakes region. The Seneca fled westward and were later removed from the Genesee Valley, defrauded by land companies, illegal takings, and federal treaties; thus moving further westward to the present-day Buffalo-Niagara frontier. READ MORE— Leslie Logan, Special to ICT

PERTH AMBOY, N.J. — The federal government is giving more than a half-billion dollars to coastal communities to help them use nature-based preventative measures to address climate-related flooding and other disasters.

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration on Friday announced it is allocating $575 million to 19 resiliency projects in several states, with a particular emphasis on Native American, urban and traditionally underserved communities that experience repeated floods, wildfires and other weather-related disasters.

U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo said in a statement that the effort was intended to “help make sure America’s coastal communities are more resilient to the effects of climate change,”

The projects include more than $72 million for so-called “living shorelines” in New Jersey, using native plants, oyster reefs and other natural materials to restore and protect waterfronts. There also is money to replace sidewalks with permeable pavement, to top buildings with plants to help absorb heat, and to establish parks in flood-prone areas that can absorb floodwaters. READ MORE — Associated Press

FOLLOW ICT ON SOCIAL MEDIA: FACEBOOK, INSTAGRAM, TIKTOK

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.

Our stories are worth telling. Our stories are worth sharing. Our stories are worth your support. Contribute $5 or $10 today to help ICT carry out its critical mission. Sign up for ICT’s free newsletter