The 1973 occupation of Wounded Knee made household names out of men like Carter Camp, Dennis Banks and Russell Means. However, women also played powerful roles in the occupation. They were honored at the 50th anniversary commemorations of the seminal event in American Indian Movement history. 

St. Mary’s Indian Boarding School is a place tied with history to ICT‘s national correspondent Mary Annette Pember. The school once operated on the Bad River Ojibwe Reservation in Wisconsin. It was the school her mother attended.

Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve, went to boarding school in South Dakota. St. Mary’s Episcopal School for Indian Girls. Her daughter, Shirley Sneve, has this interview.

  • An accused serial killer in Canada has admitted to killing four Indigenous women. Jeremy Skibicki has been charged with four counts of first degree murder for the deaths of Rebecca Contois Morgan Harris, Marcedes Myran and an unidentified female called Buffalo Woman.
  • We turn to Washington D.C., where Indigenous leaders spent two days this week making their cases for federal funding. ICT‘s Pauly Denetclaw was there and has more.
  • In Rhode Island, Brown University has their first cohort of Native American studies graduates. Five graduating seniors have received bachelor’s degrees in Critical Native American and Indigenous Studies –a first for Brown.
  • The Biden administration plans to ease restrictions on marijuana and the move could have broad implications for cannabis research and business, as well as for tribes. The plan would reclassify marijuana from a dangerous drug and recognize its medicinal properties.
  • The National Park Service is granting $23 million to tribal historic preservation offices across the nation. Grants from the Historic Preservation Fund will be used to help tribes preserve significant historic and cultural places in their communities.

Today’s newscast was created with work from:

Ebonye Delaney is the Executive Producer for the ICT Newscast. Email: ebonye@ictnews.org

Mark Trahant, Shoshone-Bannock, is ICT editor-at-large Email: marktrahant@ictnews.org

Shirley Sneve, Ponca/Sicangu Lakota, is the senior producer for the ICT Newscast. Follow her on Twitter @rosebudshirley. She is based in Nebraska and Minnesota.

Aliyah Chavez, Kewa Pueblo, is the anchor of the ICT Newscast. Follow her on Twitter: @aliyahjchavez.

Paris Wise, Zia and Laguna Pueblo, is a producer for the ICT Newscast. Email: paris@ictnews.org.

Stewart Huntington is a producer for the ICT Newscast.

Quindrea Yazzie, Diné, is a video production editor for the ICT Newscast and is based in Phoenix, Arizona. Email: qyazzie@ictnews.org. 

Daniel Herrera Carbajal is a video editor for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @daniulherrrera

Pauly Denetclaw, Diné, is a political correspondent for ICT. Email her at pauly@ictnews.org

Pacey Smith-Garcia, Ute, is a production assistant for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @paceyjournalist.

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