The ICT Newscast for Friday, September 26, covers the state of a Wisconsin tribal college, Arizona mine land restoration and new book about rural living.
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- Tribal colleges have been a huge economic force in 38 tribal lands across the nation and now their funding is threatened. Erica Ayisi traveled to Lac Courte Oreilles Ojibwe University in Hayward, Wisconsin, to learn more.
- In Northern Arizona one tribal nation is looking toward reclaiming abandoned mine lands for community and economic development. Daniel Herrera Carbajal reports.
- The buffalo is the theme of two movies on tour now. Filmmaker Ivy Macdonald collaborates with Oscar nominated Lily Gladstone.
- The Gila River Tribe in Arizona is quickly becoming a leader in renewable energy projects and they’re expanding. Daniel Herrera Carbajal has the story.
- A leader from the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation takes his lifelong love of rural life by taking pen to paper. Wayne Ducheneaux reflects on public policy.
- As we come to the end of suicide prevention month, ICT revisits a conversation from last year about women taking a stand in the Black Hills of South Dakota.
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