The Wrap: Navajo Nation set to meet with White House
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WASHINGTON — The Navajo Nation Washington Office collected stories of forced relocation earlier this week ahead of a planned tribal consultation with White House officials on Monday, Oct. 21. These testimonies, the office says, will help make the case to appoint a commissioner to the Office of Navajo Hopi Indian Relocation, an office that hasn’t had an appointment in 30 years. READ MORE. — Kadin Mills, ICT
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CLAYTON, Iowa - The Sny Magill Unit of Effigy Mounds National Monument is a hidden wonder. A dozen miles downstream from the park's visitor center along the Mississippi River, the path starts with a turn you might miss if you're not looking closely. Follow that path under a railroad bridge to a boat landing, then go by foot through the woods until the floodplain opens out flat in front of you, revealing more than 100 sacred mounds built by Native Americans thousands of years ago. READ MORE. — Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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At the Indigenous Food Lab in the Midtown Global Market in Minneapolis, a group of chefs is busy finishing a batch of fresh tortillas.
“You can smell the nixtamal,” said chef Gustavo Romero of the warm, smoky corn scent.
Together with wife Kate, Gustavo Romero owns a tortilleria in northeast Minneapolis where he and his staff make heirloom tortillas using a process called nixtamalization. READ MORE. — MPR News
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