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The relentless sun blazed overhead along Owen Beach, its heat radiating off the sand. A flotilla of canoes approached the beach, the rhythmic thrum of their paddles merged with the resonant calls seeking permission from the Puyallup canoe family to land. The canoes are a unique testament to individual Indigenous nations’ traditions,​ bearing distinct colors, symbols and wood that announce their origins.

Owen Beach in Tacoma, Washington, was bursting with songs, prayers and drums. READ MORE. — Underscore Native News

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When Raye Zaragoza was first approached about joining the Broadway production of ‘Peter Pan,’ her immediate response was to turn down the opportunity.

“Initially, when I first saw (just) ‘Peter Pan,’ I was like, ‘Oh, no,’” Zaragoza said. “‘Peter Pan’ is, like, historically been super racist and harmful towards Indigenous people, so, why would I agree to do this?”

Once Zaragoza, Akimel O’odham descent, had learned that Larissa FastHorse, the first known female Native American playwright with a Broadway production, was in charge of rewriting the original ‘Peter Pan’ story, she was immediately on board. READ MORE. — Leah Mesquita, ICT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A group of Southeast Alaska tribes requested on Aug. 1 that the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights order a temporary pause on Canadian mining activity. They say “reckless” mining activity violates their human rights.

That came after Canada’s Ministry of Land, Water and Resource Stewardship ordered on June 27 that the tribes be denied “participating Nation status,” which has the effect of diminishing their say in the permitting process.

Lee Wagner, who is Haida, Tlingit and Tsimshian, and the assistant executive director of the Southeast Alaska Indigenous Transboundary Commission, said the 15 tribes in the commission did everything they could to prove their ties to Canadian lands where gold mining is proposed. They won a lawsuit at the Canadian Supreme Court saying tribes with traditional ties to territory within Canada qualify for participating Indigenous nation status. That status would require agencies to consult with and accommodate them in the permitting process. READ MORE. — Joaqlin Estus, ICT

MISSOULA, Mont. — In a significant turn of events, an array of Catholic Ursuline Boarding School documents related to the boarding school students of several Indigenous nations in Montana and Alaska will remain in Montana.

Several U-Hauls loaded with every day records, photos, ledgers, scrapbooks and other archives were originally slated to transfer to the Catholic Jesuits in Boston, Massachusetts.

Instead, The History Museum in Great Falls, Montana, successfully secured the keeping of thousands of Ursuline Academy Boarding and Day School records to the Cascade County Historical Society repository. The community building is known as the Ursuline Center now. READ MORE. — Renata Birkenbuel, ICT

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ANCHORAGE, Alaska — The Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska and a regional housing authority have activated emergency operations to respond to a flood that hit a Juneau neighborhood. The Mendenhall River swelled 15 feet above its normal high, flooding more than a hundred Juneau homes, and hundreds of vehicles.

The flood was caused after a glacial dam on the Mendenhall Glacier released billions of gallons of water from a lake that had formed on the glacier. The Mendenhall River rose over a period of several hours, and crested at about 3 a.m. Tuesday. READ MORE.

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