Indigenous agriculture takes the stage

On Thursday’s ICT Newscast, the results are in from this week's round of primaries. What are the take aways for Indian Country? It’s a historic trade mission for Indigenous food, and the international event has the backing of the ag department. A Dakota woman writes of seasons, family and food

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Jun 20, 2024

Indigenous candidates in eight states had a primary election this month. There were nearly 70 Indigenous candidates who ran for everything from school boards all the way to congress. ICT political correspondent, Pauly Denetclaw has details.

Indigenous peoples are tied to place and language. A new book out from the University of Minnesota Press, documents a Dakota woman's relationship to land and food. “Perennial Ceremony” is Teresa Peterson's new book. ICT's Shirley Sneve has this interview.

The first ever international trade mission focusing on indigenous products is this week. The U.S. Department of Agriculture is bringing hundreds of Indigenous foods to market. Stewart Huntington caught up with Alexis Taylor, the department's undersecretary for trade, from Vancouver, Canada, to check in on this historic event.

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Zach Young, of New Haven, Conn., places a bet at one of the new sports wagering kiosks at Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket, Conn., in September 2021. Legalized sports betting continued its expansion in 2023 with six states either passing legislation or beginning to accept wagering, Fanatics got into the business and professional leagues and college athletics continued to further embrace the industry. (AP Photo/Susan Haigh, File)

Parole was denied for Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier who has spent most of his life in prison. (Photo by Amelia Schafer, ICT/Rapid City Journal)

A Census Bureau plan to move up the deadline to end “enumeration,” the process of counting U.S. residents, from Oct. 31 to Sept. 30 was put on hold by a federal judge. Critics, including the Navajo and Gila River tribes, had sued to block the move, which they said would lead to an undercount, particularly for minority communities. (Photo courtesy U.S. Census Bureau)

Santa Ana Pueblo officially added more than 100 square miles of their ancestral lands northwest of Albuquerque into trust. The pueblo bought this land back in 2016 and that process finally culminated with the U.S. government helping to put this land into trust. The 60,000 acre area that was once called Alamo Ranch will be known again as Tamaya Kwii Kee Nee Puu.
A federal judge has ordered a railway to pay nearly 400-million dollars to the Swinomish Tribe for derailing trains carrying crude oil across its reservation. In 2023, BNSF Railway derailed two trains in Washington state, leaking more than 3,000-gallons of diesel fuel. The judge found the company had intentionally trespassed by repeatedly running 100-trains carrying crude oil across its reservation.
The Manitoba government has set up a plan to search a landfill for the remains of at least two First Nations women killed by confessed serial killer Jeremy Skibicki. The province issued a search bulletin for the Prairie Green Landfill located north of Winnipeg under the environment act.

Today's newscast was created with work from:

Shirley Sneve, Ponca/Sicangu Lakota, is the senior producer for the ICT Newscast. Follow her on Twitter @rosebudshirley. She is based in Nebraska.
Aliyah Chavez, Kewa Pueblo, is the anchor of the ICT Newscast. 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. Email: qyazzie@ictnews.org. Yazzie is based in Phoenix.
Daniel Herrera Carbajal is a video editor for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @daniulherrrera
Pauly Denetclaw, Diné, is a political correspondent for ICT. Email: pauly@ictnews.org
Pacey Smith-Garcia, Ute, is a production assistant for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter: @paceyjournalist.
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

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