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Nearly one year ago, Jonathan Nez wasn’t so optimistic about a Democrat running for Arizona’s second congressional district, though he said he would consider it along with other options after he wasn’t reelected as Navajo Nation president in 2022.

During a break at the 2022 White House Tribal Nations Summit, he spoke about how challenging it would be to run against a Republican candidate.

“There’s just a different party that’s in control in terms of votes for that district,” Nez said to ICT last November. “I hate to say it, but it’s going to be very difficult for any Democrat to run for that position.”

Monday, he struck a different tone. READ MORE — Pauly Denetclaw, ICT

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A Cherokee citizen is among President Joe Biden’s nominees for federal judge seats.

Former Cherokee Nation Attorney General Sara Hill was nominated Wednesday to serve as a federal judge in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Oklahoma.

If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she would be the first Native American woman to serve as a federal judge in Oklahoma. Hill is Biden’s fourth Native judicial nominee.

“She is a brilliant attorney and dedicated public servant who possesses the knowledge, demeanor and compassion to serve the country well on the bench. As a female and a citizen of the Cherokee Nation, she not only adds diversity to the ranks of federal judges, she also brings knowledge of Indian Country issues that we need more among federal judges,” Cherokee Nation Principal Chief Chuck Hoskin said. READ MORE— Kalle Benallie, ICT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Quannah Chasinghorse, Han Gwich’in and Sicangu/Oglala Lakota, works internationally as a model. She uses her public platform to advocate for climate justice, and for the protection of Indigenous lands and rights.

Tuesday, she spoke to a room packed with hundreds of people at the Elders and Youth Conference hosted by the First Alaskans Institute in Anchorage.

Chasinghorse has appeared on the covers of Vogue, Elle, and National Geographic, modeling for the likes of Chanel, Gucci, and CalvinKlein. She said travels from her Los Angeles base to modeling jobs in New York and Paris sometimes get lonely. To get grounded, she thinks back to times growing up in Eagle, a village in Interior Alaska near Canada.

She said her favorite childhood memory is when her mother would come home from work and hook up the dog team for a run. “We’d just be talking away, talking about our day, talking about what I learned in school,” Chasinghorse said. READ MORE — Joaqlin Estus, ICT

Around the world: Uyghurs face arrests ahead of China’s National Day celebrations, Spuzzum First Nation fights Canada’s rejection of spotted owl protections, and an Australian foundation works to help Indigenous businesses

CHINA: National Day brings more arrests of Uyghurs

More than 50 Uyghur villagers were detained in Xinjiang, China, in the days leading up to the National Day celebration as part of a security operation in two communities, Radio Free Asia reported on Oct. 11.

Authorities detained 44 people from Siyek village in Hotan prefecture and eight residents from Térim village in the Kashgar prefecture in what a local official said was part of an effort to ensure a peaceful National Day.

The Oct. 1 holiday marked the 74th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Republic of China. READ MORE— Deusdedit Ruhangariyo, Special to ICT

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Chef Niko Albert Williams has been setting her table with Indigenous foods. She talked to ICT’s Mark Trahant about Leonardo DiCaprio, and why we should be thinking about duck eggs.

The Republican Party has been fractured and this has led to turmoil over the House speakership. The country has watched hopefuls drop out of the race as the clock to another government shutdown keeps ticking. ICT’s Pauly Denetclaw spoke with John Tahsuda. He’s a regular contributor from Navigators Global.

The largest dam removal project in United States history is underway along the California-Oregon border. That comes in a move spurred and hailed by tribes eyeing the return of salmon runs. ICT’s Stewart Huntington has more on how, in some ways, removing the dams is the easy part. The project will cost $500 million, paid for by taxpayers and electric company ratepayers.

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The MacArthur Foundation is home to the prestigious fellowship in which the foundation selects creative and motivated individuals each year to receive a $800,000 grant that will help fund their goals and projects with no strings attached.

This year’s recipients include three Indigenous creatives.

Composer and artist, Raven Chacon, Kumu hula and cultural preservationist, Patrick Makuakāne, and multidisciplinary artist, Dyani White Hawk, are all named in this year’s MacArthur Foundation fellows.

For Chacon, Diné, his work in creating new sounds within the composition world pushes boundaries on what dominant musical society thinks of when they hear other contemporary scores. His artforms bleed into the visual and performative realms as well creating sounds from components found in both the Indigenous and contemporary styles. READ MORE — JoVonne Wagner, ICT

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