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After having one of his worst games of the playoffs, Zach Whitecloud had a big bounce back game for the Vegas Golden Knights helping his team secure a 3-2 win Saturday over the Florida Panthers and a stranglehold on the Stanley Cup series finale.
The 26-year-old member of the Sioux Valley Dakota Nation reflected on the loss on the blog he is posting with NHL.Com.
“When you lose a game like that it wears on your mind a little bit, but for me, personally, I try to leave everything at the rink as best as possible (but that’s) easier said than done” Whitecloud posted. READ MORE. — Miles Morrisseau, ICT
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It was supposed to be a homecoming of sorts for U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, after her agency spent many months hosting public meetings and talking with Native American leaders about curbing the pace of oil and gas development in the San Juan Basin and protecting culturally significant sites.
But her return to Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Sunday was derailed when a group of Navajo landowners blocked the road, upset with the Biden administration’s recent decision to enshrine for the next 20 years what previously had been an informal 10-mile buffer around the World Heritage site.
Social media posts showed protesters yelling “Go Home!” as some held signs that read no trespassing on allottee land. READ MORE. — Associated Press
Welcoming the sun on the first Thursday of June, dozens of community members gathered at the first Cully Farmers Market of the season — with booths selling fresh produce, salsa, jewelry, skin care products and more.
Though the Cully Farmers Market has been a staple in the Cully neighborhood for a few years now, this year is the first time that the Native American Youth and Family Center, commonly known as NAYA, is fully in charge of running the event.
“Our goal is to create a space for all marginalized folks, of course focusing on Indigenous, Native, Black and brown vendors,” said S.A. Lawrence-Welch, Nêhiýaw and Métis, Native marketplace and retail coordinator at NAYA. “We are inviting people to be a part of that and really creating a Native-led space.” READ MORE. — Nika Bartoo-Smith, ICT and Underscore News
New Mexico has settled with Walgreens for $500 million over the pharmacy chain’s role in distributing highly addictive prescription painkillers.
The agreement was signed in March, and state officials confirmed that a confidentiality provision on the agreement was lifted Friday.
The settlement is in addition to $274 million in settlements obtained in the case last fall from Albertsons, CVS, Kroger and Walmart. Attorneys representing the state say that, in all, New Mexico’s opioid litigation has brought in more than $1 billion.
They argued at trial last year that Walgreens failed to recognize suspicious prescriptions and refused to fill them.
Over the past few years, drug manufacturers, distribution companies, pharmacies and other companies with roles in the opioid business have reached settlements totaling more than $50 billion with local, state and tribal governments. — Associated Press
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On the Monday edition of the ICT Newscast, an exclusive look at the second season of National Geographic’s ‘America’s National Parks.’ We hear about the young leaders at NCAI’s mid-year conference, and the co-chair of the Denver American Indian Commission talks about positive trends in his town. Plus, a unique lending innovation is led by an Indigenous financial services organization.
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More than 20,000 pounds of rocks passed from gloved hand to gloved hand in an assembly line down the beach near Kiket Island Monday afternoon, June 5, moving the Swinomish Indian Tribal Community another step closer to a modern clam garden on tribal territory.
Those rocks — some closer to boulders — were heaved from person to person during low tides as part of the tribe’s Salish Summit, a multi-day event that brought together Indigenous community members from tribes across the Pacific Ocean in the Cross-Pacific Indigenous Aquaculture Collaborative.
The clam garden — a project three years in the making — represents a reclamation for many members of the Swinomish community, which resumed stewardship of the land just 13 years ago. The Kukutali Preserve land was historically managed by the Swinomish Tribe, but was transferred to private ownership in the early 1900s, leaving tribal members barred from ancestral harvesting grounds for decades. READ MORE. — Cascadia Daily News
- Cherokee Nation leader reelected overwhelmingly: The largest Indigenous nation overwhelmingly supported incumbent Chuck Hoskin Jr. and his running mate Deputy Chief Bryan Warner to lead the nation for another four years.
- Extraction and resistance at Thacker Pass: Police and private security for a Canadian mining company arrested an Indigenous protester and demolished a protest blockade on Wednesday that was erected by descendants of a survivor of the 1865 massacre at the site, according to land and water defenders.
- Wildfires threaten Indigenous communities: 17 First Nations are affected by the wildfires and 13 First Nations have evacuated.
- Landless San Juan Southern Paiute could get its homeland: The tribe has been waiting two decades for Congress to ratify its treaty that would designate land.
- Boarding school investigation bill headed to Senate: The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs received more than 100 written comments from tribes, Native communities, organizations and individuals that were used to update the bill.
- ‘This is our homeland’: Idaho tribes gather in Boise to commemorate ancestral lands.
- Indigebox aims to bolster Native American students’ knowledge and pride.
- ‘You lift our spirits by coming to our land’: Welcoming ceremony held for Polynesian canoe voyage.
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