The ICT Newscast for Friday, Oct. 23, 2026, covers candidate profiles, a men’s wellness camp. Check out the ICT Newscast on YouTube for this episode and more.
Death of Paiute, Shoshone woman unsolved in Nevada
Following the Aug. 2 death of Trea Shay Northrup, a 19-year-old Fort McDermott Paiute and Shoshone woman, a Native-led advocacy organization is offering a $5,000 reward for information in her death. Not Our Native Daughters, a Missing and Murdered Indigenous People advocacy organization, and Oglala Lakota attorney Chase Iron Eyes are joining Northrup’s family to call for answers in her death. ICT caught up with Iron Eyes to discuss the case and reward.
Women candidates poised for history
Six Indigenous women are making waves in the 2026 general elections happening across the country on Nov. 3. Minnesota Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan, White Earth Nation, is favored to win by a slight margin in the state’s U.S. Senate race. Former U.S. House member, Mary Peltola, Yup’ik, is in a competitive race for a U.S. Senate seat in Alaska. If elected the two could be the first Indigenous women elected to serve in the U.S. Senate. Learn about the four other candidates in this week’s newscast where we revisit past interviews with these candidates, and hear analysis from longtime political consultant Gwen Leaffe Carr, Cayuga.
Native candidates for state legislature
Indigenous candidates are on the ballot in 24 states, seeking to fill positions in their state legislatures. ICT caught up with Jessica Walker-Lopez, one of the 92 Indigenous candidates running for state legislature, who is hoping to be the very first Indigenous person elected to Iowa’s state legislature.
Former Navajo Nation president seeks rematch for Arizona’s District 2
Elijah Crane topped Jonathan Nez in the 2024 match for District 2, which is concentrated in Indian Country, with 14 tribal nations represented. Nez is counting on “buyers’ remorse” to win this rematch.
Profile of Navajo Nation presidential candidates
Crystalyne Curley and Justin Jones are facing off to be the next president of the Navajo Nation. Curley would make history, if elected, as the first woman to hold the top position for the tribe.
Men’s wellness camp connects to nature
First Nations men gathered on the northwest shore of Lake Winnipeg to continue healing from the inter generational impacts of the residential and boarding school era.
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