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The 2022 SXSW conference and festivals have a strong Indigenous presence this year.
Most notably, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, Laguna Pueblo, was a featured speaker discussing equity and inclusion.
For the first time Native owned company OurWorlds won the SXSW EDU Launch competition. The company is an extended reality platform.
OurWorlds also hosted panels featuring Native leaders, educators and technologists.
But other Indigenous films, exhibits, panels and programs have been sprinkled throughout the more than week-long event in Austin, Texas. The event ends March 20. READ MORE.— Carina Dominguez, Indian Country Today
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In the 43 years that I’ve been trapped in a small cell at San Quentin, I’ve felt grass under my feet only five times. The first time was after I had spent seven years in the isolation unit because I refused to cut my hair. I’m Monache and Cherokee. They punished me despite the fact that it’s my tradition and spiritual belief as a Native American to grow my hair long.
But outside the isolation unit there was a row of grass that they really took care of. As the guards led me out of that building, I stepped off the concrete path so I could feel the grass and dirt under my feet. The smell of fresh-cut grass is still part of me. READMORE. — Douglas Ray Stankewitz as told to Richard Arlin Walker, Special to Indian Country Today
Dr. Evan Adams was not elected as president-elect of the Canadian Medical Association, and missed out on being the second Indigenous person to hold the position.
In a Friday announcement, Dr. Kathleen Ross was nominated as president-elect. Dr. Alika Lafontaine who has Anishnaabe, Cree, Metis and Pacific Islander ancestry will be moving ahead as president of the association.
Adams, a Tla’amin First Nation citizen, who has a well-known acting career from playing Thomas Builds-The-Fire in the movie “Smoke Signals,” said on March 4 on “ICT Newscast with Aliyah Chavez” that his father would talk to him about Indigenous leadership, the importance of being service-oriented and humble. READ MORE. — Kalle Benallie, Indian Country Today
Ask any Native uncle or Native auntie and they’ll tell you about a legendary rez ball game where so-and-so did the unbelievable.
I’m that Native uncle and I’m going to tell you about the unbelievable. It happened 25 years ago this week, and I was there.
Talking hoops in Indian Country is right up there with grandma’s frybread, the weather and what tribal council needs to do when it comes to Native talking points.
This is my first column as ICT’s managing editor and it’s called “Howah,” a common term amongst us Ojibwe when we learn about the amazing, or even the unbelievable. READ MORE. — Dalton Walker, Indian Country Today
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Coming up on the ICT Newscast’s weekend edition: We’re discussing the reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act. Plus, how Susan Masten is empowering women leaders. And more from some of Indian Country’s crowd-pleasing performers.
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Chefs Crystal Wahpepah, Kickapoo, and Sean Sherman, Oglala Sioux, are in serious running for major restaurant awards.
Wahpepah and Sherman are 2022 James Beard award finalists.
Lots happening in and around Indian Country when it comes to Indigenous arts and entertainment talent and Native pop culture. READ MORE. — Indian Country Today
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- Deb Haaland marks first year in office:As the first Indigenous person to lead the Department of the Interior, her voice has finally been heard. But is it enough?
- Lake hits historic low, raising hydropower concerns:It comes as hotter temperatures and less precipitation leave a smaller amount flowing through the over-tapped Colorado River.
- Appeals court reverses ruling halting Alaska refuge road: Even though the Department of Justice argued for the reversal, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland has not decided whether she would support a road through the refuge.
- Indigenous elder heads to Vatican: Mi’kmaw elder Phyllis Googoo hopes for an apology from the pope.
- College works to create traditional Coast Salish longhouse: The idea of the longhouse began in 2016 when the university’s Native student union proposed a series of ways the university could address current and historical issues faced by Indigenous students.
- In South Dakota, a Tribal Nation Owns the Largest Native-Managed Buffalo Herd in the World.
- ‘How I learned my language‘: Ojibway man dubbing cartoons
- Cherokee Nation expects delegate in House of Representatives by 2023.
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