Seneca nation citizen Yanenowi Logan, along with her other co-president, recently delivered the second-ever Youth State of Indian Nations Address at the National Congress of American Indians annual conference.
Curator Denene De Quintal from the Detroit Institute of Arts tells us about the institute’s exhibition of works by Native and First Nations women called “Vitality and Continuity: Art in the Experiences of Anishinaabe, Inuit, and Pueblo Women.”
National leaders praised Alaska’s tribal health system at the National Indian Health Board’s annual conference earlier this month. ICT National Correspondent Joaqlin Estus was there.
The U.S. Postal Service unveiled a new forever stamp that honors legendary Ponca Chief Standing Bear, who is remembered for his courage and winning a groundbreaking lawsuit.
Two Alaska Native organizations have announced they are leaving a major coalition. The Central Council of the Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes says it is leaving the Alaska Federation of Natives after this year. The Tanana Chiefs Conference, an Alaska Native non-profit corporation, also announced a withdrawal.
An Indigenous woman is helping the University of North Dakota return the ancestral remains it houses. Mary Baker, a Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation citizen, is assisting the school as it works to comply with the federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act.
In our continuing coverage of the sex abuse trial involving the former Dances with Wolves actor Nathan Chasing Horse, we learn that Chasing Horse and his lawyers have asked the state of Nevada’s high court to toss out his sweeping indictment in state court. The appeal marks his latest attempt to get the pending charges dismissed. Chasing Horse remains jailed in Las Vegas on 18 felony charges, including sexual assault of a minor, child abuse and kidnapping.
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