Credit: Brave Heart Society elder Faith Spotted Eagle, a Yankton Sioux citizen, took part in a grassroots “Protecting the Black Hills from Mining Summit” as well as a signing ceremony with federal and tribal government leaders Aug. 22 in Rapid City, South Dakota. She advocated for protection of traditional Indigenous ecological knowledge. (Photo credit/ Tanya Novikova)

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Great Sioux Nation and Biden administration representatives opened a path to joint stewardship of the Black Hills National Forest on Aug. 22. The leaders of their respective nations signed a memorandum engaging federal land managers with tribal experts in consultation, planning, and employment on sacred ground.

The U.S. Forest Service, under the Department of Agriculture, supervises 1.2 million acres of the Black Hills, located in South Dakota and Wyoming. The 75-by-120-mile swath of idyllic habitat amidst pine-clad mountains, rivers and streams is a centuries-old sanctuary for many tribes. The Oceti Sakowin, or Seven Council Fires of the Great Sioux Nation, reserved the area as “The Heart of All That Is” with the making of the 1868 Fort Laramie Treaty. READ MORE. — Buffalo’s Fire

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ECO ART: High-altitude plants root exhibit

The beauty and weirdness of the threatened Joshua Tree and the fragile Mojave Desert ecosystem that sustains it is the star of this new multi-artist multimedia show “Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees” at the Lancaster Museum of Art and History in the desert of California.

ART: Lens-based media in translation

Indigenous photography is in a spotlighted show curated by Apsáalooke artist Wendy Red Star and organized by Aperture. The Blanton Museum of Art at the University of Texas at Austin presents “Native America: In Translation,” a group exhibition that features nine Native American and First Nations artists working in photography and other lens-based media. READ MORE. — ICT, Sandra Hale Schulman

WASHINGTON — Indigenous delegates and digital content creators represented Indian Country at last week’s Democratic National Convention in Chicago, where Kamala Harris officially accepted her party’s presidential nomination.

There were more than 100 Indigenous delegates present at the convention, as well as a handful of Indigenous influencers after the Democratic National Committee announced in June it would offer credentials to digital content creators. READ MORE. — ICT, Kadin Mills

Creed Humphrey has had quite the start to his National Football League career after being drafted in the second round of the 2021 draft by Kansas City.

Playing center, the 25-year-old from the Citizen Potawatomi Nation is a two-time Super Bowl champion and has also been selected to two Pro Bowls during his first four seasons.

Now, Humphrey can call himself the highest paid center of all time after signing a four-year, $72 million deal first reported by Ian Rapoport of NFL Network. READ MORE. — ICT, Kolby Kickingwoman

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Hiding in the shadows of the U.S. government’s boarding school investigation is an obscure agency with broad control over the remains of about 180 Native children who died at Carlisle Indian Industrial School.

The final investigative report from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative makes only passing reference to the U.S. Office of Army Cemeteries. The small agency oversees all graves at Army installations across the United States as well as the graves of children buried at the Carlisle Barracks Main Post Cemetery in Pennsylvania. READ MORE.

Wákwahst unę́hkwát, meaning “good medicine” in the Tuscarora language, will serve as a guiding light for the United Katehnuaka Longhouse which will host an International Overdose Awareness Day event on Thursday. The nonprofit organization led by Native individuals, located in eastern North Carolina, is dedicated to fostering cultural connections and revitalization as a means to address the historical, intergenerational, and lifelong traumas that lead to substance use disorders within Native communities.

To promote community support and outreach, the event aims to bring together Native people from the region spanning from South Carolina to Virginia. The event will take place at the Coharie Tribal Center in Clinton, North Carolina. It will include traditional songs and dances, speakers addressing the overdose crisis in their communities, and a special tribute to loved ones who have passed away due to overdose. Although Aug. 31 is International Overdose Awareness Day , the community social reflects the heavy impact that Indigenous people have faced from the overdose crisis. READ MORE. — ICT, Shondiin Mayo

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