The ICT Newscast for Friday, October 16, covers new films with Indigenous issues, a children’s book about traditional Anishinabe culture and the sites and sounds from the Black Hills Powwow. Check out the ICT Newscast on YouTube for this episode and more.
Ho-Chunk Casino
The Ho-Chunk Nation of Wisconsin is preparing to open its largest casino yet in Beloit, Wisconsin. The casino will house over 1,300 slot machines and is creating 1,500 new jobs in the area. The Ho-Chunk Gaming Beloit facility will open on Oct. 23, with a conference center and 300-room hotel expected to open next fall. ICT caught up with Ho-Chunk Nation President Jon Greendeer at the site of the new casino.
Rapid City community walks in memory of the children
In spite of rain and the cold, hundreds of people gathered to remember the children who died at the Rapid City Indian Boarding School, which operated from 1898 to 1933. The Remembering the Children Memorial is on land held in trust by the Cheyenne River Sioux Tribe, the Oglala Sioux Tribe and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe. Participants read the names of the children who died at the school and walked to the site, over the grounds that were originally part of the school’s property.
Colorado River Documentary
“The River,” A new documentary by director Mara Tasker explores the Colorado River crisis at a pivotal moment when ongoing water negotiations will help shape the future of the river and the millions of people and Tribes who depend upon it.
Ishkode A Story of Fire
It’s a collaboration between science, traditional ecological knowledge and illustration. This children’s book tells a story passed down through generations of Anishinaabe family of how the forest and blueberries grew. Ishkode is the word for fire and this book tells the value of controlled burns.
Lou Diamond Phillips New Movie Ganglands
Sandra Hale Schulman catches up with renowned actor Lou Diamond Phillips to talk about his new movie: Gangland. A tribal cop and his new trainee must find a dangerous fugitive whose return to their reservation could ignite a gang war.
Black Hills Powwow attracts thousands of dancers and spectators
The annual event in Rapid City, South Dakota, featured more than 3,000 dancers from tiny tots to golden age dancers and a record breaking attendance, selling out the venue for the first time in Black Hills Powwow history. During the annual grand entry dance-off, men’s traditional dancers honored the 150th anniversary of the Battle at Little Bighorn, or Greasy Grass, with a reenactment of the defeat of Colonel George Armstrong Custer.
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