The ICT Newscast for Friday, July 24, 2026, covers the Trump administration’s decision to cut national monuments, the Menominee launch a dugout canoe, a new art center in South Dakota, a thriving Indigenous business woman, Native sports and food. Check out the ICT Newscast on YouTube for this episode and more.
New Mexico Wild Pushes for Restored Monument Protections
Tribes and New Mexico Wild, a land preservation organization, are calling on the Trump administration to restore protections for the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments, arguing the land holds sacred sites for Indigenous people and that shrinking the monuments exceeded presidential authority, making the original order illegal.
Menominee Water Protectors Revive Traditional Dugout Canoe
It has been decades since the last time a Menominee person paddled a traditional dugout canoe down the Menominee River. Water protectors Dawn M. Wilber and Wayne Swett worked for weeks scraping, debarking and sanding a 17-foot pine log into the vessel style used by their ancestors for centuries. They recently launched the beautiful craft amid prayers and celebration.
New Art Center Opens near Downtown Pine Ridge
The Oglala Lakota Nation has a new cultural hub north of downtown Pine Ridge. The Chatku Arts Center has an archival collection of 12,000 to 13,000 items, according to Tawa Ducheneaux, the center’s executive director. The museum features contemporary artists including nature photography from Galen LaRoche (Christopher Bordeaux is his English name), and offers artists a gift shop, both in-store and online, to sell their work.
Turtle Mountain Chippewa Entrepreneur Betsy Fore on Turning Ideas Into Products
Author, CEO and Turtle Mountain Chippewa citizen Betsy Fore has built a career taking products from concept to market with companies like Mattel and Hasbro, drawing on her own need-driven inventions like a Fitbit-style tracker for dogs and a baby food line. Now, she runs Natives Rising to encourage Native entrepreneurs to explore venture capital while promoting her new book, Built on Purpose, which blends business strategy with manifestation techniques.
ICT Talks Indigenous Sports With NDNsports.com’s Brent Cahwee
ICT Managing Editor Kolby Kickingwoman sat down with NDNsports.com co-founder Brent Cahwee to discuss Indigenous sports news, including hockey’s No. 1 draft pick Gavin McKenna, Shiyazh Pete’s upcoming Dallas Cowboys training camp and Alissa Pili’s WNBA debut off the bench for the Los Angeles Sparks.
Young Chef Brings Food Sovereignty to the Powwow Trail
At the Kettle and Stony Point First Nation annual Powwow in Ontario, Chloe White-Deleary of Walpole Island First Nation ran a food booth – dubbed the Ode’mini Giizis Cafe – with her mother. White-Deleary blends traditional staples like wild rice and smoked fish sandwiches with new creations like raspberry sweetgrass iced tea and Anishinaabeg protein power balls. She says that she hopes her food sparks a broader cultural resurgence.
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