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CINCINNATI, Ohio — Dan Friday has a car mechanic’s hands. They bear the scars and the almost-healed wound of a man who works with machinery.

But Friday’s battle scars come not from work on cars – which he did in his youth – but from his work as a glass artist.

His remarkable sculptures, clearly influenced by his Lummi culture with support from famed glass artist Dale Chihuly, challenge common expectations of an art form mostly associated with European artisans.

“Glass is such a dynamic material,” Friday told ICT during a recent visit to the Cincinnati Art Museum. “It commands your attention in a way other materials don’t. It’s hot, it’s moving, it’s teamwork, such a dynamic process.”

The red-hot molten glass can also be dangerous. READ MORE — Mary Annette Pember, ICT

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South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem has been banned from a second reservation following a vote taken during the April 2 Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe’s tribal council meeting.

Representatives from the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe were angered by Noem’s presence at the quarterly Pe’ Sla meeting uninvited and unannounced on March 29 in Rapid City. She made the appearance after making a series of allegations regarding cartel involvement, mismanagement of funds and poor education towards Native Nations in the last few weeks.

District Five representative Robert Walters presented a motion by resolution to ban Governor Noem from the reservation and the council voted unanimously, 12-0, to ban Noem from Cheyenne River lands.

“This person has made a lot of accusations about the tribes, about the cartel, council representatives being in bed with the cartel, stuff like that. It’s all false information. I make a motion at this time to banish her from the Cheyenne River Reservation,” Walters said during the April 2 council meeting. “Mr. Chairman, I believe there has to be some kind of policy set up for her to show up at these tribal meetings. She can’t just go in there and do her thing.” READ MORE — Amelia Schafer, ICT and the Rapid City Journal

To align with Arizona’s primary election dates and keep voter turnout intact, the Navajo Nation passed emergency legislation to move its tribal primary election from August to July, matching the state’s schedule.

Having two elections conducted one week apart would depress Navajo voter turnout and dilute the Navajo vote, according to the Navajo Nation Board of Election Supervisors.

In February, Gov. Katie Hobbs signed House Bill 2785 into law, changing Arizona’s 2024 primary election date to July 30. This change will only apply to the 2024 primary election.

At the risk of holding two elections on the Navajo Nation in Arizona, tribal officials did not want to dilute the Navajo vote for Arizona’s primary and local tribal government elections by making voters visit polling sites twice. READ MORE — AZ Mirror

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Surrounded by prairie grasses and dogwood trees, a half-dozen young people ages 10 through 16 clasped hands at the Forward Stride ranch on a muggy morning last summer. The tribal youth gathered to recover from harmful experiences with drugs, alcohol and incarceration had some noteworthy guides: Dusty, Dakota, Sunny, Storm and Spirit. The snickers, snorts and stomps of this plucky group of spotted Appaloosas and paint horses echoed across this Beaverton, Oregon expanse like a drum, rhythmic and soothing.

One boy, a 10-year-old, closed his eyes as he bowed his head to pray with the others who gathered in a circle, clutching hands. They had spent much of the past hour brushing silky hides and combing caramel-colored manes before hoisting themselves into stirrups and saddles on the horses’ firm backs.

After a good ride on a horse named Rune, the boy was ready to give back to his equine guide, who he said made him happy during their time together. The saunter left the gelding horse struggling a bit with humidity and an abundance of flies. The child asked the spirits to “please make my buddy, Rune, feel better.”

Other participants shared this sense of relief and tenderness at the end of the day’s treatment session on the Forward Stride ranch. During a debriefing conversation at the end of the July 25 treatment session, one teen said: “The horses made my problems go away.”

“They’re like my best friends,” said another. READ MORE — The Imprint

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