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WASHINGTON — Chief Lynn Malerba was wearing her traditional regalia — a red-ribbon dress adorned with a floral beaded yoke, belt and crown, all matching — as she was sworn in two years ago as the first Indigenous person to be the U.S. Treasurer.

It was a historic moment underpinned by Malerba’s outward display of her Mohegan Tribe. Her appointment, coupled with the appointment of Janet Yellen as Treasury secretary, paved the way for U.S. currency to feature the signatures of only women, a first for the country.

Malerba formally announced Thursday that she will be leaving her post on Friday, Nov. 15. Her exit was preplanned before the results of the election, according to the department.

“Saying ‘yes’ to being the treasurer was a little intimidating, in some regard, but I also think it was such an opportunity,” Malerba said, during a virtual press conference on Wednesday. “It was a space that Indigenous people have not been represented in, and that’s very special to me, to be the person that would bring our voice forward in a bigger way.” READ MORE — Pauly Denetclaw, ICT

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RAPID CITY, S.D. – Early Tuesday morning, news broke that South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem was nominated by President-elect Donald Trump to serve as the next Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, a decision that’s raised red flags for Native people in South Dakota, but also may provide an avenue for change.

“We need to come together now, more than ever,” Oglala Sioux Tribe President Frank Star Comes Out said during a public intertribal meeting Nov. 13. “I’m hoping we have a better governor in South Dakota that will work with us because we have issues that we need to bring to the table with the state.”

Noem made South Dakota history earlier in May when she was banished from every reservation in the state following disparaging remarks made regarding alleged cartel activity on reservations and about Indian education. At one point Noem alleged tribal governments benefit from cartel presence and are failing their youth.

During a May press conference, Noem responded to the banishments by asking why tribes “don’t ban the cartels.” She’s banned from all nine reservations in the state: the Pine Ridge, Cheyenne River, Standing Rock, Lower Brule, Rosebud, Lake Traverse, Crow Creek, Flandreau and Yankton reservations. Standing Rock and Lake Traverse both span into North Dakota. READ MORE — Amelia Schafer, ICT + Rapid City Journal

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TULSA, Okla. – In tribal administrative offices and in the homes of Indigenous people from Alaska to Florida, many Native people awoke the day after Tuesday’s election to find what they had feared: the election of former president Donald Trump.

Feelings of fear and uncertainty experienced by many Native people during the president-elect’s first term in office returned, and Native leaders and individuals expressed those feelings on social media and elsewhere.

But not all Native people were concerned about Trump’s re-ascension. Indeed, Trump appeared to have earned the votes of many Native people this year, a fact not lost on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women advocacy group Not Our Native Daughters, which questioned the decision by so many Native voters to support the former president.

At least one organization expressed frustration at barriers faced by Native voters. READ MORE — Felix Clary, ICT + Tulsa World

Besides promising federal recognition to the Lumbee Tribe in North Carolina, Trump’s campaign has not established a solid plan for Indian Country. However, Project 2025, a nearly 1,000-page book, does have some rough ideas for Indian Country.

While the president-elect has publicly distanced himself from the conservative think tank Heritage Foundation’s highly controversial Project 2025, the project was written by many of his former staffers as a road map for Trump.

A majority of the plan relating to Indian Country focuses heavily on resource extraction, critiquing President Joe Biden’s initiatives over the past four years, particularly in terms of his push for electric vehicles, reduced fossil fuels and climate change initiatives.

Aside from land management and mining, the report briefly outlines the desire to reform Indian Health Services, the Bureau of Indian Education and crime in Indian Country. READ MORE — Amelia Schafer, ICT + Rapid City Journal

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Around the world: Belgium honors Indigenous World War I veterans, Brazil announces a plan to restore degraded lands, Māori-led research projects win a prestigious grant, and Western Australia’s prison crisis triggers demands for transformative change

Belgium: Paying tribute to Canada’s Indigenous veterans

Belgium marked Canada’s Indigenous Veterans Day with a national ceremony honoring the estimated 4,000 Indigenous soldiers who fought in World War I on battlefields that came to be known as Flanders Fields, CBC News reported on Nov. 8.

The celebration — the first time Belgium has recognized Canada’s Indigenous Veterans Day — included a series of events leading up to Remembrance Day on Monday, Nov. 11, to recognize the First Nations, Métis and Inuit soldiers who fought in the war.

A Canadian delegation of Indigenous people from Eastern and Western Canada were invited to join in recognition of two Indigenous veterans who died in the war. READ MORE — Deusdedit Ruhangariyo, Special to ICT

VENICE, Italy — Scholars, artists, designers, and Pulitzer Prize-winning musicians gathered at the 2024 International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia for a symposium as part of artist Jeffrey Gibson’s exhibition, “the space in which to place me.”

Gibson, a citizen of the Mississippi Band of Choctaw and of Cherokee descent, is the first Indigenous artist to represent the U.S. with a solo show at the prestigious international exhibition.

Taking place at the U.S. Pavilion and various other Venice venues from Oct. 24-26, the convening was titled, “if I read you/ what I wrote bear/ in mind i wrote it,” to explore the relationship between Gibson’s art and in a broader sense Indigenous North American cultures, the arts, and global histories.

The title of Gibson’s exhibition came from Layli Long Soldier’s 2012 poem, “Ȟe Sápa,” and the title of the October event was also drawn from her work, taking inspiration from the 2017 poem, “Whereas.” The show closes Nov. 24. READ MORE — Sandra Hale Schulman, Special to ICT

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