The ICT Newscast for Friday, May 30, 2025, features stories about a Dakota rapper’s new album, a quest for more Indigenous medical students and voting rights. Plus a Montana campus medicinal garden.
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- Oak Flat fight continues: The Supreme Court declined to hear the Apache Stronghold case, clearing the way for mining at Oak Flat. Leaders vow to keep resisting development on sacred land.
- SAVE Act raises voting rights concerns: The Safeguard American Voter Eligibility Act could limit access to the ballot box for Native and women voters by imposing stricter ID requirements.
- Meet Caroline Davis: We Are Healers supports Indigenous students pursuing careers in medicine. New director Caroline Davis shares how the nonprofit opens doors.
- Montana healing garden blooms: A medicinal garden at the University of Montana helps students connect with traditional plant knowledge and cultural wellness.
- Tribes invest in cannabis economy: Native nations are expanding into hemp and marijuana as part of a growing push toward tribal economic sovereignty.
- New music from Bazille: Rap artist Bazille shares how he is honoring his ancestors in a new album blending hip hop with Native identity.
- Tocabe opens at Denver airport: Native-owned restaurant Tocabe brings Indigenous cuisine to Terminal A at Denver International Airport.
- Remembering Jeanne Givens: Jeanne Givens, the first Native woman to run for Congress in the country and the first Native woman elected to the Idaho House, has passed away.
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This terrible news, but I wonder if this Oak Flat situation can be taken to all the people of Arizona,as a National Security issue? China has plans for the Western Hemisphere,like this mine,US farmland ownership, building a huge port in Canada, and according to the NY Post, assisting with different groups to fight each other,to destabilize the US! All kinds of things,and their oil supply is affected by this new Israel- Iran war, can pull in the superpowers. It’s time to see about better methods to mine copper. Don’t give the CCP a toehold in AZ !!