Lia Abeita-Sanchez spends countless hours tending to the land on the traditional homelands of the Isleta people in New Mexico. She is a New Mexico certified chile farmer. She will be competing in the 2023 New Mexico Chile Taste Off on Oct. 7.

Mary Kathryn Nagle is an attorney and playwright. Her stories have explained complicated concepts from federal Indian law to the legal implications of climate change. This summer she took on an even greater challenge. Telling a about her family and starring in the one-woman play. ICT’s Mark Trahant talked with Mary Kathryn and her husband Jonodev Chaudhuri.

Dalton Walker is ICT’s managing editor. He lives and works in the Phoenix area, but recently returned from a trip to his homelands on the Red Lake Nation in Minnesota. He shares his experiences.

  • Four ancestors were repatriated from the cemetery at the shuttered Carlisle Indian Industrial School. Last week, the remains of the four students who died at the nation’s first federal Indian boarding school in Pennsylvania. The remains of Northern Arapaho, Blackfeet, Sisseton Wahpeton and Spirit Lake children were returned for reburial with ceremony.
  • The Hopewell Ceremonial Earthworks in Ohio are now on the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites, effectively putting it on the same standing as the Pyramids and Machu Picchu. The massive earthworks are made up of eight sites spread across 90 miles.

Today’s newscast was created with work from:

Shirley Sneve, Ponca/Sicangu Lakota, is vice president of broadcasting 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. On Twitter: @aliyahjchavez.

McKenzie Allen-Charmley, Dena’ina Athabascan, is a producer for the ICT Newscast. Instagram: @mallencharmley.

Paris Wise, Zia and Laguna Pueblos, 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 her at pauly@ictnews.org

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

Nick Parks is a Production Assistant for the ICT Newscast.On Twitter: @NickParks2002

Jack Orleans is an Intern for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter @JackOrleans5

Demi Dupavillon is an Intern for the ICT Newscast. On Twitter @DemiDupavillon

Mark Trahant, Shoshone-Bannock, is ICT editor-at-large and Executive Producer of the ICT Newscast Email: marktrahant@ictnews.org

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